Metadata: Mayor’s office of Pâncota
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Arad county directorate
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Nationale Române. Direcţia judeţeană Arad
- Postal address:
- Strada Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski 2-6, 310052 Arad
- Phone number:
- 0040-257-233818
- Reference number:
- 598
- Title:
- Mayor’s office of Pâncota
- Title (official language):
- Primăria comunei Pâncota
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mayor’s office of Pâncota
- Date(s):
- 1930/1969
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 126 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the files created by the mayor’s office of Pâncota from 1930 to 1969. It includes records of meetings of the local council, provisions, circular letters, orders of the county authorities, budget sheets of the local administration, documents concerning the activities in agriculture organised and supervised by the office, decisions and initiatives related to the sanitation and systematisation of the locality and to educational and cultural activities. Jewish references appear in the records concerning the revision of the nationality registers (File 84/1938), expropriation of Jewish properties in the Holocaust period (Files No. 106/1940; 122/1941; 125/1941; 132/1942; 140/1942), forced labour detachments (File 186/1943), census of the Jewish population (92/1939; 233/1944) and “Romanisation” of Jewish firms (File No. 183/1943). From the post-war period documents exist concerning reparations and restitution of Jewish properties (File 254/1945).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was preserved by the Popular Council of Pâncota. After 1989 it was transferred to the Arad county directorate of the Romanian National Archives, inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Pâncota is a village in Arad county mentioned for the first time in 1202. Since 1216 a Catholic abbey has been situated on its territory. It was conquered by the Turks in the 17th century and came under Austrian rule in 1687. After the transformation of the Austrian Empire into the Austro-Hungarian, Pâncota became part of the Hungarian half of the Empire, being administered in accordance with the legislation adopted by the parliament in Budapest. After the First World War it became part of Greater Romania. It was a significant commercial centre with viticulture and industrial enterprises producing furniture and building materials. Its Jewish population increased from 126 inhabitants (1.8% of the total population) to 189 in 1910 (2.4%), while the 1930 census registered 133 Jews (1.8%). Due to the Holocaust and Aliyah, the census in 1992 found only two Jewish inhabitants in Pâncota.
- Access points: locations:
- Pâncota
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is comprised of files, which are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories no.599 and 616, held by the Arad county directorate 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 - 2019; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2019
