Metadata: Dzierżoniów Administrative District Office
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of Wroclaw, Kamieniec-Ząbkowicki branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu, Oddział Kamieniec Ząbkowicki
- Postal address:
- Plac Kościelny 4, 57-230, Kamieniec Ząbkowicki
- Phone number:
- (+48 74) 8173540
- Web address:
- http://www.ap.wroc.pl/
- Email:
- kamieniec@ap.wroc.pl
- Reference number:
- PL 84/ 966
- Title:
- Dzierżoniów Administrative District Office
- Title (official language):
- Starostwo Powiatowe w Dzierżoniowie
- Creator/accumulator:
- Dzierżoniów Administrative District Office
- Date(s):
- 1796/1929
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 36 linear metres (882 folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The extant records of the Administrative District Office (Landratsamt) of Reichenbach (now Dzierżoniów) concern administrative affairs, elections to legislative bodies and municipal matters of the District, whose area expanded in 1932 as the District of Nimptsch (now Niemcza) was dissolved. The office of Reichenbach’s District Administration ceased operating in April 1945 as the German administration was abolished.
Jewish-related items are dispersed, appearing in units referring to statistics, education and economy. They occur frequently in units covering the issues of settlement/colonisation, cemeteries and schools, i.e.:
Ref. no. 315: Persönliche und gewerbliche Verhältnisse der Juden, 1812–47.
Ref. no. ACC26/28/315a: Errichtung der Bevölkerungslisten der Juden, 1812–50.
Ref. no. ACC26/28/352: Verhältnisse der Juden, 1847–85.
Ref. no. 866: Anlagen von Kirchhofen, 1844–1927.
Ref. no. 892: Errichtung der offentlichen jüdischen Schule, 1868.
Lists of Jewish citizens can be found as well.
- Archival history:
- In 1946 and 1950, the Landratsamt dossier became part of the State Archive of Wroclaw. It is presently stored at its branch in Kamieniec-Ząbkowicki.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Administrative District Office of Reichenbach im Eulengebirge (now Dzierżoniów was originally established as a second-instance state administration office, consisting of departments in charge of handling the respective matters as laid down in the Office’s in-house instructions. As of 1933, it included the following departments: general; health; overground construction; accountancy and auditing; taxation; social care; youth care; road construction; land improvement; construction of water structures; construction of housing units.
- Access points: locations:
- Dzierżoniów
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is available in the reading room of the State Archive of Wroclaw, Kamieniec-Ząbkowicki branch.
- 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
