Metadata: Commune of Czarna Wieś
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:
- 29/56/0
- Title:
- Commune of Czarna Wieś
- Title (official language):
- Gmina Czarna Wieś
- Creator/accumulator:
- Authorities of the Commune of Czarna Wieś
- Date(s):
- 1669/1910
- Date note:
- 1669; 1703-1783; 1867-1910
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Extent:
- 34 units (1.05 linear metres)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
Czarna Wieś is presently an area within Krakow, part of District V – Krowodrza. Located approximately 2 km west of Krakow, until 1792 it was a royal village and a Church settlement of Norbertine nuns. In 1909, the area was incorporated into Krakow as its 14th cadastral district. Kawiory was a hamlet adjacent to the village, where one of the earliest Jewish cemeteries in what is today Krakow was conjecturally set up. The earliest identified Jewish-related materials are dated to around the middle of the 19th century. A considerable amount of Jewish-related material can be found for the period of the 1880s to 1912 in each unit of the fonds.
29/56/0/-/4 – The electoral registers for communal councils from the second half of the 19th century (1880s–90s) and the early 20th century feature Jewish names or names potentially identifiable as such, including: Emanuel Rosenzweig, industrialist; Kalman Knoblauch; Kunegunda Schlang; Józef Schlang; Chaim Schlang; Jakub Gollenhofer; Wolf Hoffman; Eliasz Schlang, industrialist; Kauma Knoblauch; Leon Schlasinger; Samuel Schlasinger; Bernard Knoblauch; Felis Tuerschmid; Nachman Englaender; Joel Bauminger; Ester Freylich; Abraham Silberbach; Amalia Schlesinger; Józef Froehlich; Leon Rothwein; Beniamin Neufeld; Wiktoria Mojżeszowicz; as well as powers of attorney for those casting their votes (e.g. Joel Bauminger, witnesses Natan Lautbrech and Abraham Majer Zyamant).
29/56/0/-/11 – Jewish surnames appear among those subject to compulsory road benefits (so-called prestations): Schlang, Schlesinger, Rosenzweig, Gollenhoffer, Schrabenthan, Eisen, Knoblauch, Neufeld.
29/56/0/-/10 – Jewish names in lists of payers of house and land taxes: as above, and Izaak Bauminger; Wiktoria Steinberg; Scheindla Melzer; Henryk Schoenberg; Leizor Huppert; Maurycy Schoenberg, barrister.
29/56/0/-/02 – Minutes of communal sessions contain requests for sale of meat (Abraham Schlang); Jews appearing in cases re. sanitary affairs, granting of licence for sale of vodka (Emanuel Rosenzweig), fencing of land, and settling the school education issue.
29/56/0/-/14 – Registers of penalties for transgressing the curfew, against Jewish publicans for extended hosting of a party and making the sale of vodka available after hours: Abraham Schlang, Kałma Spliter, Emanuel Rosenzweig.
29/56/0/-/15-29/56/0/-/30 – Jews involved in specified cases in several volumes of the incoming correspondence log – e.g., applications for opening a business, keeping an inn and taproom, extension of curfew hours, examination of legal rules re. real properties under lease. Jews also appear in the annexed lists of persons running a business (e.g. Schieferstein, a brush maker) and liable to taxation; applications from Jews to the communal authority; admonitions to Jews demanding the cleansing of a washroom (public toilet) or tidying up the area surrounding a house.
29/56/0/-/03 – Jewish affairs in the register of resolutions of the communal council.
- Archival history:
- The records of the village of Czarna Wieś were stored at the village’s chancellery. Approximately 70% of the collection has been preserved. The records were kept in a numerical and chronological order. With the liquidation of the Commune, they were moved to the records repository of the Krakow municipality office [magistrat] (the Municipality’s Main Archive) and, as late as 1911, to the City of Krakow’s Archive of Historical Records. Some of the collections was destroyed at the Commune’s chancellery or during the shredding at the Krakow municipality’s repository. A specified part of the construction/building-related records was inserted in the fund of the records of the Town of Podgórze and, finally, included in the Commune’s records fonds (in 1953).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Czarna Wieś was a royal property, incorporated in the fourteenth century under the German Law. Since 1581, the settlement belonged to the parish of the church at Zwierzyniec, and was partly owned by the Order of Norbertine Sisters (the local nunnery). In 1673, Czarna Wieś was subordinated to the jurisdiction of the vogt and aldermen’s office of the Jurydyka of Garbary, which reported to the City of Krakow. A ‘municipal manorial farm’ functioned in Kawiory in the eighteenth century. Between the time of the ‘Great’ Sejm (1788-92) and the year 1859, Czarna Wieś was part of a municipality – from 1838 on, as part of Circuit [cyrkuł] IV. Since 1855, the area was recognised as a suburb of Krakow, whilst Kawiory was directly subordinated to the magistrat (municipal office) of Krakow. Following the administrative reform of 1867, Czarna Wieś, together with Kawiory, was excluded from the municipal jurisdiction; in 1868, both areas were subjected to the County Department in Krakow (part of the State Division of the Imperial-and-Royal Starosty). The area was finally merged into the City of Krakow, in 1909–10. A vogt (wójt) presided the Commune until the middle of the nineteenth century. From 1866 onwards, the Commune was headed by a communal council and the communal ‘superiority’, the vogt and the assessors being the executive body.
- Access points: locations:
- Kawiory
- Subject terms:
- Trade and commerce
- Trade and commerce--Alcohol trade
- System of arrangement:
-
The fonds is arranged as follows:
1. Municipal manorial farm of Kawiory 1669-1783 (ref. no. GmP III/1)
2. Resolutions of the Communal Council, elections 1867-1910 (ref. no. GmP III/2-3)
3. Commune’s assets, inventory, benefits/performances of inhabitants 1870-1910 (ref. no. GmP III/4-12)
4. Lists of livestock, 1888-95 (ref. no. GmP III/13)
5. Register of punishments 1872-85 (ref. no. GmP III/14)
6. Records, in numerical and alphabetic sequence 1848-1910 (ref. no. GmP III/15-22)
7. Incoming correspondence logs, indices to journals 1867-1904 (ref. no. GmP III/23-33)
8. Varia 1900-04 (ref. no. GmP 34)
- 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 zespołu akt gmin przyłączonych do miasta Krakowa w latach 1909-1912 z lat 1348-1912, ed. by Z. Wenzel-Homecka, W. Kolak, Z. Wojas
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Przemysław Zarubin, Kraków, 2017
