Metadata: Prefecture of Bihor county - The Prefect`s Office
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Bihor county directorate
- Holding institution (official language):
- Serviciul judeţean Bihor al Arhivelor Naţionale Române
- Postal address:
- Strada Traian Blajovici, Oradea
- Phone number:
- 0040-259-413876
- Email:
- bihor@arhivelenationale.ro
- Reference number:
- 12
- Title:
- Prefecture of Bihor county - The Prefect`s Office
- Title (official language):
- Prefectura judeţului Bihor, Cabinetul prefectului
- Creator/accumulator:
- Office of the prefect of Bihor county
- Date(s):
- 1862/1919
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 15 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the files records issued by the Office of the prefect of Bihor county from 1862 to 1919. It includes the registers of entrance and issue of records which entered and were resolved by the chief officer of the county, their content referring to all fields of the administration and to some confidential issues that were not solved in the usual bureaucratic channels. Their content includes nominations and dismissals of office holders, the state of mind of the population, relationships between different religious denominations, the evolution of prices on the local market, emigration and immigration and instances of espionage. Records with specific Jewish references can be found in particular in the following files: No. 18/1863 (anonymous antisemitic pamphlets); No. 75/1878 (financial support for synagogues and Jewish educational institutions); Nos. 94, 186 and 199 (official dispositions concerning the trade in alcoholic beverages), No. 199/1911 (emigration and immigration).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred to the Bihor county directorate of the Romanian National Archives, inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The territorial administration of Bihor county was reestablished in 1860 on the same model as that from the period preceding the 1848 Revolution after a decade of the neo-absolutist Austrian regime which had a completely different system of organisation. At the head of the local administration was the prefect nominated by the Court in Vienna, who was responsible for the entire activity of the local institutions. After 1867, when the Austro-Hungarian Empire replaced the former Austrian Empire, the system of local administration was reorganised by the laws issued by the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest which introduced the exclusive use of the Hungarian language in administration and the subordination of the county including its chief officer to the government in Budapest. This system continued until the end of the First World War, when the new Romanian system of administration was introduced and Romanian became the language of administration.
- Access points: locations:
- Bihor
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in thematic sections, within which the files are arranged in chronological order. The registers of entrance and issue of records have thematic alphabetical indexes.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories no. 23, 24 and 25, held by the Bihor county directorate of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Anton Dörner, emeritus researcher of the Institute of History of the Romanian Academy from Cluj-Napoca - 2018; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2018.
