Metadata: Duchy of Świdnica-Jawor
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of Wroclaw
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu
- Postal address:
- ul. Pomorska 2, 50-215 Wrocław
- Phone number:
- (+48 71) 328 81 01; (+48 71) 328 83 95
- Web address:
- http://www.ap.wroc.pl/
- Email:
- sekretariat@ap.wroc.pl
- Reference number:
- PL 82/9
- Title:
- Duchy of Świdnica-Jawor
- Title (official language):
- Księstwo świdnicko-jaworskie
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administrative authority of the Duchy of Świdnica-Jawor
- Date(s):
- 1285/1936
- Language:
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- 21 linear metres (300 folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection consists of materials amassed by the administration of the Duchy of Świdnica-Jawor. These are categorised into documents and files (dossiers):
I. Documents, 13th to 15th century.
II. Files/dossiers:
1. Duke’s attitude toward the duchy he ruled: tributary affairs, ducal regalia, privileges/charters, official fiscal records; 1366–1720.
2. Estates (classes): privileges/charters, purchases/sales of properties, disputes involving municipalities and the chivalry, regulations, convention minutes, diaries; 1504–1726.
3. Management of the duchy: chancellery and registratura (file collection/records) matters, land and mortgage registers, purchase/sale, minutes/records, charges or fees, patents, tax assessment [ingrossation] registers; 1308–1836.
4. Legal and judicial system: interrogation registers, manorial court records; 1305–1742.
5. Finances/treasury: tax and accounting matters; 1637–1740.
6. Military: war affairs, Thirty Years’ War, Counter-Reformation; 1622–1729.
7. Agrarian culture and statistics: land registers, urbaria [lists detailing the landowner’s properties and his bondservants’ obligations]; 1495–1741.
8. Annex: accounts, extracts of dietine (sejmik) minutes; 1366–1852.
9. Annex: documents re. Silesian dukes Casimir (Kazimierz) and Bolko II the Small (Mały) 1363–1491.
Jewish-related items are scarce. They can be found in the following units, inter alia:
Ref. no. 31: ‘Grund- und Hypothekenbuch der Fürstentürmer Schweidnitz-Jauer’, 1740–1836. Includes information concerning, inter alia: Lippmann Meyer, Salomon Epstein, Beer Jacob Gurauer of Głogów, Lazarus Kroh, Nathan Reichenbach, Noa Salomon of Gorzów, Carl-Daniel-Mose-Joseph-Jonas Fränckel and the Kuh brothers of Wroclaw.
Ref. no. 132: ‘Ingrossationsbuch’, 1800–16. Includes information information re. (inter alia): Wolff Seelig Landsbergerer, factory owner Loebel-Joseph Asch, Heymann Pincus, the will of Lippmann Meyer of Wroclaw.
Ref. no. 137: ‘Ingrossationsbuch’, 1811–24. Includes information re. (inter alia): Hirsch-Elias Goldschmidt, Raphael-Gabriel Prausinitzer of Legnica, Johann-Gottfried Barthel, Salomon Simmel of Wroclaw.
Ref. no. 261: ‘Die Verhältnisse des Gutes Birkholtz [Kosobudy]’, 1823–52. Includes information re. (inter alia) Jacob Leipziger, a banker.
- Archival history:
- The materials contained in the collection were produced and collected by the Duchy administration. Before World War 2, the resource formed part of the Staatsarchiv Breslau; during the war, for the sake of protecting them, the files were dispersed and kept in various localities; some were destroyed, including, probably, a portion of Jewish-related items. After World War 2, the files were included in the State Archive of Wroclaw, the legal successor of the former German-owned archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Duchy of Świdnica was established after the death of Boleslaus II ‘the Horned’ (Bolesław Rogatka) by his son Bolko I the Strict (Surowy), who extended his dominion by Ziębice, Dzierżoniów, Strzelin, Jawor, Strzegom, and Sobótka. His grandson Bolko II the Small (Mały), having inherited the Duchy of Jawor (which had been separated earlier), rose to become the mightiest of the dukes in Silesia; as such, he did not pay homage to John of Luxembourg. Bolko II had no offspring and thus Anna, his niece, wife of the Bohemian king Charles, became the legitimate heiress to both duchies. After Bolko’s death in 1368, the Duchy of Świdnica-Jawor became the domain of the king of Bohemia, as Princess Anna’s dowry; the life estate right for Agnes, Bolko’s widow (d. 1392), was stipulated. As an administrative unit, the Duchy of Świdnica-Jawor encompassed in 1736 the districts of Świdnica, Strzegom, Bolków, Kamienna-Góra, Dzierżoniów, Jawor, Jelenia-Góra, Lwówek-Śląski an Bolesławiec. After Prussia seized Silesia in 1740–1, the duchy remained an estate administration unit.
- Access points: locations:
- Bolków
- Dzierżoniów
- Jawor
- Kamienna-Góra
- Strzegom
- Świdnica
- Access points: persons/families:
- Asch, Loebel-Joseph
- Barthel, Johann-Gottfried
- Epstein, Salomon
- Fränckel, Carl-Daniel-Mose-Joseph-Jonas
- Goldschmidt, Hirsch-Elias
- Gurauer, Beer Jacob
- Kroh, Lazarus
- Kuh family
- Landsbergerer, Wolff Seelig
- Leipziger, Jacob
- Meyer, Lippmann
- Pincus, Heymann
- Prausinitzer, Raphael-Gabriel
- Reichenbach, Nathan
- Salomon, Noa
- Simmel, Salomon
- Subject terms:
- Real estate
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of books/registers and unbound items, manuscript and printed.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is available in the reading room of the State Archive of Wroclaw.
- Finding aids:
- A register is available at the archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Author of the description:
- Anna Grużlewska, Leszek Ziątkowski; University of Wroclaw; 2015
