Metadata: Jurydyka of Retoryka
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The National Archives in Krakow
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie
- Postal address:
- Oddział III, 30-960 Kraków, ul. Sienna 16
- Phone number:
- +48 (12) 422 40 94
- Web address:
- http://ank.gov.pl/
- Email:
- sekretariat@ank.gov.pl
- Reference number:
- 29/43/0
- Title:
- Jurydyka of Retoryka
- Title (official language):
- Jurydyka Retoryka
- Creator/accumulator:
- Authorities of Krakow’s Jurydyka of Retoryka
- Date(s):
- 1623/1795
- Date note:
- 1640-1643; 1644-1662; 1763-1793; 1778-1791; 1698-1795
- Language:
- Polish
- Latin
- Extent:
- 0.12 linear metres (5 units)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds covers the Jurydyka of Retoryka in the 17th to 18th centuries. Jewish-related material can mainly be found in eighteenth-century records.
The fonds mostly consists of vogt and aldermen’s records, minutely kept inductions, as well as minutes and (since 1777) protocols on stamp paper. The miscellaneous records comprise extracts from vogt and aldermen’s records, letters from proprietors and residents of Retoryka to the municipality [magistrat] of Krakow, a ‘summary registry’ of records related to Retoryka, compiled in 1787 on instruction of the Commission for Good Order, a 1790 list of houses in Retoryka, measurements of the local grounds, 1774-9. The records mostly comprise accounts of lawsuits filed, intromissions, cessions/transfers, quittances, contracts/agreements concluded at the vogt and aldermen’s office and last wills and testaments concerning residents of Retoryka.
Jewish-related material occures in the following: 29/43/0/-/3 (Jur VII-3), 29/43/0/-/4 (Jur VII-4), and 29/43/0/-/5 (Jur VII-5). This includeß contracts for lease [arenda] of houses, agreements of Jewish leaseholders with residents for running taprooms [propinacja], quittances of payments made (submitted by Jews), cases involving redemption of liens from Jews, land allotment purchase-sale agreements, and payments of local taxes by Jews (‘courtly rents’, ‘chimney’ fees).
- Archival history:
- Among the extant records related to Krakow’s ‘noble jurydykas’, those of Retoryka form the largest quantity. The Ossoliński family seem to have cared about the chancellery and its archival resources, whose unique items dated back to the first half of the seventeenth century. Hence, in 1763, they issued an instruction to keep the records at the vogt and aldermen’s office and, periodically, receive them for review and inspection. In 1792, the records were reviewed and their pages numbered by the office of the Circuit [cyrkuł] 3 of Garbary. The records of Jurydyka of Retoryka (though probably not all of them) were moved to the Krakow City Hall in March 1794. In the Free City of Krakow period (1815-46), the records were initially kept at the city hall and then at the Mortgage Registry Office (affiliated to the Court of Appeals). In 1890, the records were transferred to the Archives of Historical Records of the City of Krakow.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Retoryka is presently the name of a Krakow street, located in District I – Stare Miasto [Old Town]. It starts at Wenecja St., crosses Józefa Piłsudskiego St. and then goes up to Zwierzyniecka and Powiśle Streets. Historically, the street ran through the ‘noble jurydyka’ [i.e. privately-owned tract of land within the city] of Retoryka, which was also called ‘Ossolińszczyzna’ or ‘na Żydowym’ (the latter name suggests that Jews might have settled there and run their businesses, supported and encouraged by local proprietors). Utworzona została w I poł. XVII w. by the magnate family Ossoliński of Tęczyn in an area outside the ramparts of the city of Krakow, behind the Wiślną Gate, and stretched up to the Rudawa River. Retoryka was adjacent to the jurydykas of Garbary and Smoleńsk. In 1781 Retoryka was sold to Józef Szlubowski, the starost of Siomaki.
In general, a jurydyka was an area situated beside or within a royal city; in some cases, a jurydyka was a sort of inner enclave not subject to the city’s authorities, whose residents were exempt from the duty to pay the municipal taxes. Otherwise, jurydykas were self-government bodies or particular territories enjoying their own jurisdiction or administration.
The magnate family Ossoliński set up a self-government – the ‘vogt and aldermen’s office’ – in Jurydyka of Retoryka, thus forming a ‘noble [or, nobility’s] jurydyka’. The right to appeal against the decisions of the vogt and aldermen’s office to the heir’s court was vested in those involved. The actual ruler of the jurydyka was a plenipotentiary (delegate) appointed by the Ossolińskis. In 1655, Retoryka was burnt by the Swedish troops. Formally, the Jurydyka was cancelled in 1791, in the period of the Four Years’ (i.e. ‘Great’) Sejm; the Austrian authorities put a definite end to it in 1800.
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- Real estate
- System of arrangement:
-
The fonds is arranged as follows:
29/43/0/-/1 – [Vogt and aldermen’s protocol] 13 October 1640 - 26 March 1643
29/43/0/-/2 – Acta officii advocatialis et scabinalis Retoricensis 21 May 1644 - 29 July 1662
29/43/0/-/3 – Protocollon advocatialis et scabinalis Rhetoricensis ad Cracoviam, stante notariatu Joannis Rafałowicz apostolici notarii 29 October 1763 - 27 April 1793
29/43/0/-/4 – Protocollon actorum, cessionum, quietationum, intromissionum officii advocatialis et scabinalis R[h]etoricensis 5 March 1778 - 30 July 1791
29/43/0/-/5 – [Miscellaneous records] 1698-1795
- Access, restrictions:
- If copies (microfilms, scans, photocopies) are available, these will be provided to the researcher. Access to original documents requires the Director’s consent.
- Finding aids:
- Inwentarz akt jurydyk krakowskich 1412–1809, ed. by Wacław Kolak, Warszawa 1968
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Przemysław Zarubin, Kraków, 2017
