Metadata: Administration of the Slaughterhouses and Markets of Anderlecht, Personnel Archives
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Municipality of Anderlecht
- Holding institution (official language):
- Commune d’Anderlecht
- Postal address:
- Place du Conseil 1 / Raadsplein 1, 1070 Bruxelles (Anderlecht)
- Reference number:
- MunAnderlecht-Brussels-Régie des Abattoirs et Marchés d’Anderlecht, Fonds du Personnel
- Title:
- Administration of the Slaughterhouses and Markets of Anderlecht, Personnel Archives
- Title (official language):
- Régie des Abattoirs et Marchés d’Anderlecht, Fonds du Personnel
- Creator/accumulator:
- Commune d’Anderlecht; Gemeente Anderlecht; Municipality of Anderlecht
- Date(s):
- 1923/1980
- Date note:
- ca. 1925-1980
- Extent:
- 5 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains the files related to the staff of the slaughterhouse. We note a file titled “Jewish priests” (sacrificateurs juifs)”, dated 1929-1940. It consists of correspondence, notes and administrative documents, mainly from the Chief Rabbi, the municipal services of Anderlecht and the Régie des Abattoirs et des Marchés d’Anderlecht-Cureghem. The documents mainly relate to the following topics: the construction of a building for use by rabbis; the states of the premises rented for slaughter; the dispute between Rabbi Gelernter and the Chief Rabbi of Brussels concerning the exclusivity of the right of ritual slaughter; the rent of the slaughterhouse for chickens at the abattoirs; the list of priests officiating in the slaughterhouse according to the Jewish rite; the prohibition of slaughter according to the Jewish rite by order of the occupying authorities during the Second World War.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The municipality is one of the levels of government with which citizens most often come into contact. Its tasks and competences were first established by the decree of 14 December 1789, and by the order of 19 Frimaire year IV [1795-96]. After Belgian independence, the legal framework was provided by the Gemeentewet of 1836 and later the ‘Nieuwe Gemeentewet’ (1988). Since 2002, the organic law regarding municipalities is a competence of the Regions. Until 1980, municipalities were supervised by the provincial and central authorities. Today, there is a division of powers between the federal and regional governments. A municipality is led by a mayor, who is also the head of the local police. He/she is assisted by a college of aldermen, selected from the municipal council. Currently, there are 589 municipalities in Belgium. Before the large-scale fusions in the 1970s – in other words, for a large part of Belgian history – there were 2359 municipalities. The municipality had/has, among others, competences regarding the management of its assets, institutions and staff; municipal revenue and expenditure; Civil Registry; health and safety in public places; urban planning and environment; public works; militia; education; elections etc. This is reflected in the sources held in municipal and city archives. Important general sources include the (sometimes published) minutes of meetings and records of the municipal council and college of aldermen (often indexed by subject). We also refer to all kinds of administrative reports and general correspondence. The series of sources of the Civil Registry (e.g. birth, marriage and death certificates, population registers, registers of arrival and departure) are crucial for historical research on individuals. Relevant for this guide are notably the alien registers (since 1933), and the alien files preserved in some larger cities. Of major importance are also the accounts, correspondence and other material regarding the recognised religions. They contain information on their operation, budgets, assets but also the appointment of ministers, donations to religious communities, various conflicts etc. Building permits and files regarding environmental permits contain information and usually blueprints of buildings. Lastly, in many municipal and city archives there are specific series of sources regarding policy during the First and Second World War. We mention e.g. the various anti-Jewish ordinances, documents regarding the spoliation of the Jews, the so-called Jodenregister (register of Jews), correspondence related to the implementation of the anti-Jewish policies etc. (J. Art & E. Vanhaute (ed.), Inleiding tot de lokale geschiedenis van de 19de en de 20ste eeuw, Gent, Mens & Cultuur, 2003; P. van den Eeckhout, “De gemeenten en de lokale openbare instellingen”, in P. van den Eeckhout & G. Vanthemsche (ed.), Bronnen voor de studie van het hedendaagse België 19e – 21e eeuw. Tweede herziene en uitgebreide uitgave, Brussel, Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis / Commission Royale d’Histoire, 2009, pp. 31-92.)
- Access points: locations:
- Anderlecht
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gelernter
- Access, restrictions:
- Consultation and reproduction requires the authorisation of the secretary of the municipality of Anderlecht.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
