Metadata: Variae civitates et villae – a collection of remnants of the archival fonds: Lanckorona
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- National Archives in Krakow
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie
- Postal address:
- ul. Sienna 16, 30–960 Kraków
- Phone number:
- (+48 12) 422 40 94; (+48 12) 4212790; (+48 12) 421 68 81
- Web address:
- http://ank.gov.pl/
- Email:
- sekretariat@ank.gov.pl
- Reference number:
- PL 29/121.29
- Title:
- Variae civitates et villae – a collection of remnants of the archival fonds: Lanckorona
- Title (official language):
- Variae civitates et villae – zbiór szczątków zespołów. Lanckorona
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipality of Lanckorona
- Date(s):
- 1567/1864
- Language:
- Latin
- Polish
- German
- Extent:
- 1.45 linear metres (11 units)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
-
This collection was compiled by the municipality of Lanckorona (until 1772) and, for the most part, by the Austrian domanial and State administration (between 1772 and 1848).
For the Austrian period (after 1772) the municipal books of account and minutes of the meeting of the town council survive as part of the collection. Most of the documents are those submitted to the magistrates’ court by the parties involved and those referred to the court of appeals in Lwów. Mainly submitted were various civil-law entries, concerning real property/estate, debts, settlements/arrangements, marital contracts, posthumous inventories, court verdicts and decisions.
Archival research has found that Jews seem to have possessed no realties until 1821, if not later; it moreover seems that local Jewish residents did not pay taxes in Lanckorona or did so only occasionally (ref. no. 109, pp. 212, 243, 939). Moreover, certain Jews, probably living outside the area (year 1793, ref. no. 101, pp. 315–320), brought actions to litigate at the municipality in the former half of the nineteenth century, mostly to reclaim their debts, and granted powers-of-attorney (ref. no. 102, pp. 179–307, nr 212, pp. 321–350, no. 286, pp. 329–365, no. 297, pp. 409–430, no. 426, p. 1, no. 552, pp. 475–482). The documents are records featuring signatures of the parties, including with use of Hebrew alphabet. Some Jewish-related elements appear sporadically (participation in an 1806 auction, ref. no. 101, pp. 1133, 1137, 1141).
Archives of Lanckorona from the same period are also kept in at the Central Archives of Historical Records [AGAD], Warsaw, and the Scientific Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences [PAN]/Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences [PAU], Krakow.
- Archival history:
- By order of the Austrian/Galician authorities (1887), archival resources from the earlier periods stored at public institutions were supposed to be deposited in Krakow (and elsewhere). The local authorities of Lanckorona produced, in 1889, an inventory of twenty-three units, mainly dating to 1772–1848, one of them from the Old-Polish period. Despite the efforts taken in 1903 and 1908, these archives were not successfully transmitted before 1918; in a later period (as attested by temporary reference numbers attached), eleven units were supplied, most of which (nos. 101–108) were made up within the archive of loose files, of similar contents, made between the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Situated 38 km south-west of Krakow, Lanckorona was a royal town which until 1772 remained within the Voivodeship of Krakow, Kingdom of Poland (‘the Crown’), and served as the seat of a starosty. In 1772 to 1918, the town was governed by Austria, as part of the region of Galicia. Jews lived in Lanckorona since the seventeenth century. The number of Jewish residents in the actual town was scarce; more Jews dwelled in nearby localities.
Incorporated under the Magdeburg Law in 1366, the town of Lanckorona had a council, the town administration body consisting of a burgomaster (burmistrz) and councillors (rajcas). There also was an assessors’ court that dealt with doing justice. Major cases were adjudicated by the ‘Bench’ (ława), including the vogt (wójt) and his deputy (podwójci). In the Austrian rule period, the Starosty of Lanckorona was divided into three parts in 1774, its Lanckorona part being sold, in 1777 to a private owner (the Princess of Curland). The town was administered by a municipality office (magistrat) that consisted of a lord mayor, a syndic, two assessors and others. Being a private (domanial) town, Lanckorona was subjected to the will of its owner and of the Austrian Government: the supreme, national and circular (i.e. precinct), authorities.
- Access points: locations:
- Lanckorona
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters--Debt
- Legal matters
- System of arrangement:
-
The fond has been arranged in a chronological and thematic order, as follows:
Old-Polish period: ref. no. 100 [Town Council/Assessors’ Book of Lanckorona, 1586–9]; Austrian period: ref. no. 101 [Juridical acts of the Municipality Office of Lanckorona, 1788–1808]; ref. no. 102 [Civil juridical acts of the Municipality Office of Lanckorona, 1793–1846]; ref. no. 103 [Juridical acts of the Municipality Office of Lanckorona, 1794–1848]; ref. no. 104 [Juridical acts of the Municipality Office of Lanckorona, 1773–1850]; ref. no. 105 [Juridical acts of the Municipality Office of Lanckorona, 1798–1846]; Accounts and cash books: ref. no. 106 [1789–1839], ref. no. 107 [1840–62], ref. no. 108 [1798–1864]; Miscellaneous files/records of the Municipality Office: ref. no. 109 [1789–1848]; Minutes of Town Council sessions, 1834 [ref. no. 110].
- Access, restrictions:
- If a copy (microfilm, scan, photocopy) of a document exists, this is what will be made available. Access to the originals requires the consent of the Director.
- Finding aids:
-
Inventory available online.
An inventory in Polish is available in the reading room at the archive.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Author of the description:
- Janusz S. Dąbrowski; Kraków; 2015
