Metadata: Administration of Sfîntu Gheorghe prefecture
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Covasna county directorate
- Holding institution (official language):
- Serviciul judeţean Covasna al Arhivelor Naţionale Române
- Postal address:
- Strada General Grigore Bălan 12, Sfântu Gheorghe
- Phone number:
- 0040-267-310645
- Web address:
- arhivelenationale-covasna.ro
- Email:
- covasna@arhivelenationale.ro
- Reference number:
- 123
- Title:
- Administration of Sfîntu Gheorghe prefecture
- Title (official language):
- Pretura Plăşii Sfîntu Gheorghe
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Sfîntu Gheorghe prefecture
- Date(s):
- 1901/1950
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 888 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the files of the administration of Sfîntu Gheorghe prefecture from 1901 to 1950. It includes official correspondence with superior county authorities, reports, orders, circular letters, records of meetings of the local council, authorisations for industrial enterprises, budget sheets and pay rolls, lists of the clerks of the administration, certificates of morality and pauper status issued by the prefecture offices, documents concerning emigration and immigration, registers of vital records, census of the local population, documents concerning confessional activities, issues with orphans, the activity of the local workers movement and illegal Communist action. The following files include Jewish references: No. 3/1941 - Jewish property and real estate; No. 10/1941 - authorisations for Jewish economic activities; No. 13/1941 - Expropriation of Jewish properties; 26/1942 - Administration of properties of missing persons; No. 43/1943 - Antisemitic restrictions; No. 60/1944 - Annulment of authorisations for Jewish firms; No. 66/1945 - Restitution of Jewish properties.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred to the Covasna county directorate of the Romanian National Archives where it was inventoried in the years 1970-1971, being made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Until the First World War the prefecture of Sfîntu Gheorghe was part of Trei Scaune county in accordance with the law of territorial administration issued by the Hungarian Parliament. After the First World War the Romanian administration reorganised the territory of Transylvania by the law issued in 1925. Sfîntu Gheorghe prefecture became part of Trei Scaune county which included five prefectures: Baraolt, Covasna, Ozun, Sfîntu Gheorghe and Tîrgu Secuiesc. The prefecture of Sfîntu Gheorghe had in its administration 21 localities. In 1940, when the Hungarian administration was reinstalled, the system of organisation returned to the pre-First World War model, while after 1945 the Romanian system was used again until 1950 when the Communist regime fundamentally reorganised the territorial administration, Sfîntu Gheorghe becoming part of the Autonomous Hungarian Region. The new reform of the local administration from 1968 included Sfîntu Gheorghe in Covasna county.
- Access points: locations:
- Sfîntu Gheorghe
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in thematic sections, within which the files are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories no. 1, 2, 3, 4, held by the Covasna county directorate of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Tóth Levente, archivist - Protestant Theological Institute - 2018; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2018
