Metadata: The Archive of the Estate of Pomorzany (1336–1567), 1570–1868
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 29/636
- Title:
- The Archive of the Estate of Pomorzany (1336–1567), 1570–1868
- Title (official language):
- Archiwum Dóbr Pomorzany (1336–1567) 1570–1868
- Creator/accumulator:
- Pomorzany Estate
- Date(s):
- 1336/1868
- Language:
- Latin
- Polish
- German
- Extent:
- 1.06 linear metres (128 units)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection was accumulated by the administration of the Pomorzany estate. Some records concern economic affairs, others are legal and property-related. Jewish-related elements include inventories listing Pomorzany’s eighteenth-century realty proprietors, leaseholds, the town’s leaseholds, lists of residents of the villages (1st half of the 19th century) and legal cases/litigations involving Jews. The most numerous documents are supplications (requests) to the domain’s authorities/owner for rectification of abuses of the local administration or reduction of lease fees/taxes; receipts (bills, vouchers) and disbursement orders are quite numerous. The surviving contracts concluded by the domain administration with Jews for supplies, leaseholds, including of the entire Estate of Pomorzany and adjacent areas testify to the formation of a group of Jewish entrepreneurs running considerable businesses. Not only Jewish leaseholders but also permanent staff of the Estate appear in the records. Numerous documents bear Hebrew signatures.
Jewish items have been found to appear in the following units:
ADPom 30: Foundation of the church in Pomorzany by Jakub Sobieski, 1633.
ADPom 32: Letters of the administrators reporting to Konstanty and Jakub Sobieski, 1689–1739.
ADPom 33: Inventory of the town of Pomorzany, and other materials, 1691–1736.
ADPom 34: Accounts of the town of Pomorzany, 1654, 1657–76.
ADPom 36: Folwark [serfdom-based feudal estate/demesne] of Pomorzany, 1689–1719.
ADPom 38: Stock-take, 1683/4.
ADPom 39: Accounts of the Estate of Pomorzany, 1686.
ADPom 40: Stock-take of the folwarks of Pomorzany, Hodów, and Zarudzie, 1686–7.
ADPom 42: Stock-take of the folwark of Pomorzany, 1686–7.
ADPom 43: Leasehold-based income for the Fee-Tail of Pomorzany.
ADPom 44: Book of summaries: accounts of the folwarks of Pomorzany, Zarudzie, and Tarnopol, 1716–26.
ADPom 45: Contracts for, and leaseholds of, the breweries and ponds of the Estate of Pomorzany, 1685–98.
ADPom 46: Supplications to King John (Jan) III Sobieski, his sons and commissioners, 1681–1730.
ADPom 47: Town of Pomorzany – lists of inhabitants, debts, cases of the Jews,1647–1722.
ADPom 50: Income from Pomorzany as received by Jakub, Aleksander and Maria-Kazimiera Sobieski, 1698–1700.
ADPom 51: Income from Pomorzany / damage caused by war, 1699–1700.
ADPom 53: Bills acknowledging donations for the clergy of Pomorzany and Lwów, 1640–1749.
ADPom 55: Pomorzany pledged by Radziwiłł family members, 1745 and 1763.
ADPom 58: Inventory of the Fee-Tails of the folwarks of Pomorzany and Złoczów 1744.
ADPom 59: Inventory of the Fee-Tail of Pomorzany, 1745.
ADPom 60: Leasehold contract for inns, concluded with a certain Szulimowicz of Złoczów, 1745.
ADPom 61: Supplications from the subjects.
ADPom 62: Litigation against Ell, a Jew from Pomorzany (1742–62).
ADPom 68: Case involving F Orłowski, the leaseholder of the Pomorzany Estate, accused of having destroyed the domain, 1771.
ADPom 72: Correspondence of Franciszek Bobowski, commissioner of the domain, 1792–6.
ADPom 76: Accounts of the Fee-Tail of Pomorzany.
ADPom 83: Contract for lease in Pomorzany: inns, fairs, grain/corn.
ADPom 119: Municipal registers of Pinsk, revised as of 1632 (a 1779 duplicate).
ADPom 124: The Cathedral Church in Krakow, 1672[?].
No Jewish items have been found in ADPom 37, 40, 48, 49, 57, 63, 73, 74, 75, 78, 86 or 87.
- Archival history:
- The archive of the domain of Pomorzany passed from one owner’s hands to the next. This has not prevented the records from surviving in a residual form: only 150 records survive from before the year 1700, most of them from the eighteenth century, out of the original 1,000. The Pruszyński family sorted out the archive, but it was depleted after the death of Józef Pruszyński in 1886. The Potocki family kept the collection in Łańcut and afterwards, before 1939, at the palace in Krzeszowice; the latter was soon after chosen by Governor-General Hans Frank (head of the General-Gouvernement) as his residence. In the course of the agricultural reform carried out in post-war communist-ruled Poland, the archive, considered a ‘former manorial’ property, was taken over by the State in 1949. Initially called ‘the Pomorzany Archive of the Potocki Family’, it has been renamed as it turned out to contain no Potocki-related records.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The town and an estate complex of Pomorzany was situated 90 km west of Lwów [now Lviv in Ukraine]. The Pomorzany Estate encompassed in 1789 the town and eighteen villages.
Pomorzany was owned by the families of Sienieński, Cetner (1600–30), Sobieski (1639–1740): the latter included Jakub (died 1646), his son Jan (d. 1696; king of Poland-Lithuania since 1674); Queen consort Maria-Kazimiera Sobieska (Marie-Casimire-Louise de La Grange d'Arquien), the Princes Jakub-Ludwik, Aleksander (1699-1711), Konstanty (1711–1726), and again Jakub (1726–1737), and Maria Karolina de Bouillon, née Sobieska. The subsequent proprietors were Michał-Kazimierz and Karol-Stanisław Radziwiłł (1740–89), and the families Pruszyński (1789–1886) and, lastly, Potocki (1886–1945).
- System of arrangement:
- Once nine fascicles were taken over, the arrangement of the fond was reconstructed at the Archives and categorised into (i) legal and property-related and (ii) economy-related. Archival matter related to Pomorzany has been appended: IT 245, 276, as ADPom 35, 44. The fond has been arranged by possessor: Sienieński (ADPom 1–15); Sobieski (AD Pom 16–53); Radziwiłł (ADPom 54–64, Varia 65–66); Pruszyński (67–71, 72–84). It also includes Records of the Pruszyński-owned estates in Volhynia and Ukraine (ADPom 85–105), family documents (106–113). Extranea – records other than Pomorzany-related (ADPom 114–117, 118–128).
- 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.
See also:
„Archiwum Dóbr Pomorzany (1336–1567) 1570–1868”, by Waldemar Bukowski. (This is available in the reading room at the archive.)
147 records are available in the database of the Jagiellonian University: http://www.uj.edu.pl/web/judaiki
- Yerusha Network member:
- Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Author of the description:
- Janusz S. Dąbrowski; Kraków; 2015
