Metadata: City Hall, Oradea - Contemporary registers and indexes
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:
- 8a
- Title:
- City Hall, Oradea - Contemporary registers and indexes
- Title (official language):
- Primăria Municipiului Oradea. Instrumente contemporane de evidenţă
- Creator/accumulator:
- City Hall, Oradea
- Date(s):
- 1713/1949
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Latin
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 240 registers
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the registers and indexes of the City Hall of Oradea from 1713 to 1949. They are arranged in 14 sections: 1. General assembly; 2. City council; 3. Administrative committee; 4. Prefecture; 5. Presidential records; 6. Legal office; 7. Bookkeeping department; 8. Tax collecting office; 9. Police department; 10. Court; 11. Office for minor offences; 12. Registry office; 13. Archive; 14. Hungarian national Council. Until the Holocaust there are a significant proportion of Jewish references in all of these sections. The Jewish population of Oradea increased from 6,438 persons out of a total population of 28,741 inhabitants in 1869 to 15,155 of 68,960 in 1910. The Romanian census of 1930 found a Jewish population of 14,816 inhabitants out of a total population of 88,830.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was preserved by the Popular Council of the Municipality Oradea. After 1989 it was transferred to the Bihor county directorate of the Romanian National Archives, inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In 1692 Oradea became part of the Hungarian province of the Austrian Empire and was organised in accordance with the rules established by the Court of Vienna and implemented for Hungary by the Locumtenential Council which resided in Buda. After 1867, when the Austrian Empire was transformed into the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the city administration was reorganised in accordance with the administrative law issued by the Parliament and government in Budapest and the language of the administration became Hungarian. After the First World War, Oradea became part of Romania and the city was led by a mayor, assisted by a deputy mayor and a City Council which elected a permanent delegation. The general secretariat of the city oversaw administrative, juridical, financial, economic, cultural, educational and police departments. The language of administration became Romanian. In 1940 the Hungarian administration was reinstalled and during its authority the entire Jewish population of the city was deported to Auschwitz in May-June 1944. In 1945 the inter-war system was reinstalled until 1949 when the new Communist regime introduced the Popular Council as the ruling institution of the city.
- Access points: locations:
- Oradea
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- Taxation
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in thematic sections, within which the registers and files are arranged in chronological order. Most of the registers have alphabetical indexes.
- Access, restrictions:
- After the recent move of the archive to a new building, access to the fonds is restricted for a period of time.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory no. 143, 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 - 2019; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2019.
