Metadata: Administration of Chişineu-Criş district
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Arad County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române. Direcţia Judeţeană Arad
- Postal address:
- Arad, Str. Ceaikovski nr. 2-6, cod 310052, judeţul Arad
- Phone number:
- 0257-233818
- Reference number:
- Fond 131
- Title:
- Administration of Chişineu-Criş district
- Title (official language):
- Pretura Plăşii Chişineu-Criş
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Chişineu-Criş district
- Date(s):
- 1872/1950
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 497 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the files of the administration of Chişineu-Criş district in Arad county from 1872 to 1950. For the period of time before the First World War only one file remains, comprising official correspondence with the mayors’ offices of the villages of the district. From the final period of the war the fonds contains a copy of the Trianon peace treaty with Hungary and records concerning the procedure of establishing the border line between Romania and Hungary. For the inter-war period there are many references to the political activities in the district, especially concerning the extreme-right legionary movement. After the territorial losses of Romania in 1940 there are mentions of the many refugees from Bessarabia, Bukovina and Northern Transylvania who settled in this district. From the period of the Second World War the fonds contains lists of the concentrated reservists, of war widows and orphans and of the damages caused by the military operations in this district in September 1944. After the Second World War there are many references to the agrarian reform of 1945 and the measures meant to implement the provisions of the Truce convention with the United Nations.
The following files contain specific Jewish references: No. 116 - Jewish shops (1941); No. 124 - Jewish enterprises (1941); No. 142 - status of the Jewish population (1942); No. 151 - Jewish houses (1942); No. 156 - status of Jewish properties (1942).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was originally held by the Popular Council of Arad county. It was transferred to the Arad County division of the Romanian National Archives after 1989, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The district of Chişineu-Criş functioned in the framework of Arad county until the First World War in accordance with Hungarian legislation. It was reorganised in accordance with the law issued on 14 June 1925 by the Romanian parliament concerning the administrative unification of Greater Romania. Modifications in this status were made due to measures adopted by the Romanian parliament and government in 1929, 1934, 1937/1938, 1940/1943 and 1946/1947. The district was headed by an administrator nominated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and subordinated to the prefect of the county, implementing the decisions and instructions issued by the county council. The main task of the district administration was to control and supervise the activity of the mayors’ offices of the villages and to ensure public order and security. The head of the district administration was obliged to visit the villages of the district at least quarterly. This system continued throughout the Second World War and the years following until it was replaced as per law no. 17 of 1949 with a provisional district committee with functioned until 31 December 1950, when it was replaced in turn with a Popular Council introduced by the newly installed Communist regime.
- Access points: locations:
- Arad county
- Chişineu-Criş
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Real estate
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised into thematic files which are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 187 and 215, held by the Arad County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó (researcher, Institute for Study of National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor), 2018