Metadata: Countship of Kłodzko
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 82/13
- Title:
- Countship of Kłodzko
- Title (official language):
- Hrabstwo kłodzkie
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of the Countship of Kłodzko
- Date(s):
- 1345/1854
- Language:
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- 13.83 linear metres (867 folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection consists of materials accumulated by the administration of the Countship of Kłodzko. There are two types of resources, i.e. documents and files/dossiers.
I. Documents; 1479–1798: Land (country) regulations, chivalric estate’s privileges, appointments/nominations, police and military affairs, property-related affairs, documents related to specified localities (in alphabetical order).
II. Folders/files:
1. Holding and management of the Countship, the borderline, tributary affairs, ruler’s income: homage/tributes, financial matters, investigations and punishments inflicted on rebels against the Emperor (1622–34), excavating treasures and coins, the attitude toward Silesia, Bohemia, Moravia, and Poland, frontier disputes, mining industry, monetary matters, postal service, trading in salt and tobacco, manufacture of gunpowder, forest affairs, customs, brewing industry, domains, tributary affairs, acts of grace/clemency, public buildings; 1350–1854.
2. Estates (classes): chivalry (privileges, property matters), municipal officials, free peasants, serfs (privileges/charters, releases from bondage, desertion, complaints, serfdom), Jews; 1568–1741.
3. Countship management: appointment of Starost, officials/clerks, chancellery, registratura [collection of current and archival files/dossiers], archive, ordinances/decrees, rescripts, imperial patents, correspondence, registers of records/minutes, reports, imperial rescripts, guardianship, real estate matters; 1520–1818.
4. Judicature/legal and judicial system: imperial rescripts and the judicial bodies’ own dispositions (orders) regarding judicial proceedings in civil and criminal cases, feudal court [Manngericht], court regulations, court fees, appeals, manning of the courts, appellate cases, penology and prisons, criminal cases, murders, poisonings, robberies, polygamy, suicides, miscellaneous: civil cases; 1543–1779.
5. Police: mendicancy and vagabondage; disturbances of peace and order; fire, road (traffic), sanitary, artisan, marketplace, hunting, morals-oriented police; censorship; population movement control; 1560–1745.
6. Financial affairs: tax officials/clerks, contributions, taxes, loans and bonds (debentures), accounting matters, incomes and expenditures (Duchy’s and other), cadastres, excise duty, pension-and-annuity office; 1575–1741.
7. Military affairs: Thirty Years’ War, contingents, military hospitals, march-pasts of Swedish and Brandenburg troops, prisoners of war, fortifications, the fortress of Kłodzko (then under construction), armoury; 1600–1741.
8. Economy and economic statistics: statistical data concerning the Countship, property-related affairs, rural urbaria [lists detailing the landowner’s properties and his bondservants’ obligations], inventories, trade/commerce, industries, crafts, measurements; 1602–1850.
9. Education, sciences, arts: education and school system, libraries, books/registers, alchemy, artists, painters, music, poetry, theatre; 1599–1824.
10. Church/ecclesiastical affairs and charity foundations: ecclesiastical jurisdiction, manning of Church posts (deaneries), missions, foundations, ecclesiastical inspections, cashbox (treasury) affairs, religious practices, matrimonial dispensations, accountancy controls/inspections; the Minorite convent in Kłodzko; the Joannites of Kłodzko; 1305–1847.
11. Annexes: urbaria, circulars, tables, income registers; the city of Duszniki; crafts; 1571–1894.
Jewish-related items are found in the following units (inter alia):
Ref. no. 152: Acta miscellanea, betr. Judensachen besonders die Abschaffung der Juden, 1622–1731, c. 180.
Ref. no. 355: Acta miscellanea, 1680–1719.
- Archival history:
- The materials in the collection were produced and accumulated 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 Countship of Kłodzko was an administrative unit with its capital in Kłodzko, existing within the present-day county (poviat) of Kłodzko between 1459 and 1816. The countship was established by King George of Poděbrady and initially was part of the Kingdom of Bohemia, incorporated as a fiefdom. Togeter with a part of Silesia, the countship was taken over in 1742 by the Kingdom of Prussia and subsequently made part, in 1816, of the Silesian Province. The Countship of Kłodzko was abolished, in administrative terms, in 1816, through incorporation in the Regency of Dzierżoniów (Regierungbezirk Reichenbach) and, once this unit was dissolved, into the Regency of Wroclaw (Regierungbezirk Breslau; since 1820) –as the Landkreis Glatz, itself divided into the districts of Kłodzko and Bystrzyca-Kłodzka [Habelschwerdt]. Nonetheless, the ‘Countship’ continued to function on a habitual basis as well as within the Church administration.
- Access points: locations:
- Kłodzko
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- 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
