Metadata: Prefecture of Bihor county
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/a
- Title:
- Prefecture of Bihor county
- Title (official language):
- Prefectura judeţului Bihor
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prefecture of Bihor county
- Date(s):
- 1609/1920
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Latin
- Extent:
- 27 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the files records issued by the administration of Bihor county from 1609 to 1920. It includes census records of the population from 1791, 1712, 1713, 1714, 1719, 1802 and 1844, census records of tax payers from 1857 to 1913, registers of trials judged by the county with alphabetical indexes from the years 1733-1785, 1787-1789 and 1851-1855, and registers of taxes paid by tax payers from Bihor county in the years 1871- 1913. Files with specific Jewish reference are No. 89/1859 (census of the Jewish population of the county); No. 830/1789 (trial of Samuel Jakob v Samuel Nyely for debts); No. 851/1775 (trial of Andras Farkas v Matyas Davidovics for debts); No. 856/1844 (trial of Mandel Fridman v Simon Sonnenfeld for debts); No. 918/1845 (trial of Salamon David v Sigismund Vegh for maltreatment). In all census records appear a large number of Jewish inhabitants and tax payers from the localities of Bihor county. In 1869 the county had 14,492 Jewish inhabitants, rising to 27,022 in 1910.
- 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:
- In the 17th century Bihor county was under constant threat of Turkish invasion, its capital of Oradea being conquered by the Turkish army in 1660. It was liberated by the Austrian army in 1692 and it became part of the Austrian Empire, from and administrative point of view part of the Hungarian Kingdom included in this Empire. After 1867 it became part of the newly founded Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of the First World War when it was included in Greater Romania, preserving its status a county with the capital at Oradea. Its population increased, as can be seen in the census records from the second half of the 19th century, from 365,807 inhabitants in 1869 to 418,816 in 1900. 475,847 persons were registered by the last census before the First World War. The majority of the population was Romanian and Hungarian. The Jewish population represented around 5-6% of the total number of the inhabitants, mostly living in Oradea.
- Access points: locations:
- Bihor
- Access points: persons/families:
- David, Salamon
- Davidovics, Matyas
- Farkas, Andras
- Fridman, Mandel
- Jakob, Samuel
- Nyely, Samuel
- Sonnenfeld, Simon
- Vegh, Sigismund
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Debt
- Legal matters
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in thematic sections, within which the files are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory no. 41, 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.