Metadata: Town hall of Deva
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Hunedoara county directorate
- Holding institution (official language):
- Serviciul judeţean Hunedoara al Arhivelor Naţionale Române
- Postal address:
- Strada Aurel Vlaicu 2, Deva 330005
- Phone number:
- 0040-254-213875
- Reference number:
- 20
- Title:
- Town hall of Deva
- Title (official language):
- Primăria orașului Deva
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town hall of Deva
- Date(s):
- 1880/1990
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 2,079 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the registers and files of the Town Hall of Deva from 1880 to 1990. It includes records of the town council, registers of the house and landowners with their properties, lists of merchants and craftsmen, files concerning local administration, building projects, authorisations for construction work, registers of local taxes, records concerning economic activities, health, cultural and educational institutions and social assistance. The following files include Jewish references: No. 12/1925 - statutes of the Jewish Community of Deva; 29/1938 - inventory of properties of the local Jewish community; No. 9/1941 - census of the local population with regard to nationality and religious denomination; No. 30/1941 - Jewish shops taken over by the state; No. 14/1942 - expropriation of Jewish properties; No. 14/1942 - confiscation of Jewish agricultural properties and livestock; No. 35/1943 - forced labour detachments; No. 42/1945 - population of Deva with data on nationalities and religious denominations.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was preserved by the Popular Council of Deva, being transferred after 1989 to the Hunedoara county directorate of the Romanian National Archives where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The castle of Deva was first mentioned in the 13th century. The town of Deva became the capital of Hunedoara county in the 19th century and was an important economic, commercial, administrative, political and cultural centre of the area. It was led by a town council and a mayor in accordance with the legislation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of the First World War. After the First World War its administration was reorganised in accordance with Romanian legislation. It had a significant Jewish community - in 1920 it numbered 728 individuals out of a total population of 9,382 while the census of 1930 shows that 848 Jews lived in Deva out of a population of 12,158. In 1956 there were still 624 Jews out of 18797 inhabitants. During the Second World War the Town Hall participated in the implementation of the antisemitic policy of the Antonescu regime by expropriation of Jewish properties, restrictions and extortions against the local Jewish community and organisation and administration of forced labour detachments. After the Second World War the local Jewish population diminished especially due to Aliyah. The administration of the town was reorganised by the Communist regime which in 1950 introduced the so-called Popular Council which functioned until 1989.
- Access points: locations:
- Deva
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in thematic files, within which the registers and records are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory no. 930, held by the Hunedoara 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