Metadata: Commune of Krowodrza
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:
- 29/59/0
- Title:
- Commune of Krowodrza
- Title (official language):
- Gmina Krowodrza
- Creator/accumulator:
- Authorities of the Municipality of Krowodrza
- Date(s):
- 1530/1910
- Date note:
- 1530-1826; 1830-1910
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Extent:
- 58 units (2 linear metres)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Graphic material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
Krowodrza is an area within Krakow, encompassing four districts of the city (IV to VII). Before the Partitions of Poland (1772-95), Krowodrza was a village owned by the Order of the Holy Ghost [Polish colloquially zakon duchaków]. Various Jewish-related material from the 19th and 20th centuries has been identified, primarily:
2. Minutes of the Municipal Council, elections, circulars of the Starosty 1859-1910 (ref. no. GmP VI/17-22)
3. Municipality assets, road fund, taxes, rents 1830-1910 (ref. no. GmP VI/23-31)
5. Residents, military affairs, industrial and commercial concessions (construction, Society for Affordable Social Housing for Workers, school, parish, social care, sanitary supervision, celebrations 1850-1910 (ref. no. GmP VI/36-45)
6. Incoming correspondence logs 1888-1909 (ref. no. GmP VI/47-58)
7. Varia 1853-65 (ref. no. GmP VI/46)
29/59/0/-/38-29/59/0/-/40 – Among construction-related records, in particular: enquiries from Jewish craftsmen, factory owners, suppliers, etc. Drying-oil/varnish works offer (Ignatz Immerglueck, master glassmaker); acceptance for construction works at a land parcel (Bernard Kornblum); glazing works offer – Elias Preis; sheet-metal works offer – Bernhard Stein; drying-oil/varnish, glazing, painting works offer – Hermann Wasserlauf.
29/59/0/-/18 – Numerous Jewish surnames featured on electoral protocols (municipal councils’ election lists, 1867-1908) – e.g. Hirsch Rosenzweig. Lists of candidate jurors – Maurycy Amster, Bernard Kornblum, Mojżesz Lember, Salomon Wortman.
29/59/0/-/47 to 29/59/0/-/57 – Most of the identified Jewish-related material is in the incoming correspondence log, which specified the subject of the case considered by the municipal authorities, suggested ways of settling the matter by the municipality, the authority and parties by which the letters are to be received, and the subject of the complaint, dispute or problem. The Jewish names include: Abraham Bellman, Abraham Gruenberg (serving of military passport), Mojżesz Rozenberg; calls for appearing at the memo-servicing office – Maurycy Amster; certifications of indigency – Mojżesz Lemler; Municipality’s ‘circulars in respect of Ruchla Fejler regarding the running of a victuals stall’; certification of moral conduct related to a job at the tobacco factory – Rudolf Blejtner; recording of lodgers – Reisla Gross; re. the running of a victuals stall – Abraham Rosenberg, Ludwik Huebner; Municipality’s decision re. liquor licence, with recommendation of delivery – Abraham Rosenberg and Ruchla Fejler; interview re. payment of military fee – Józef Klejmann, Berek Finkelstein, Lej[z]or Wohlfiler, Izaak Neuchinger; memo from the Municipality instructing to bring Salomon Schaffer before the veterinary committee; demands to provide poultry registers – Berek Finkelstein and Józef Klejmann; interview re. Kochmon Klein, demanding to determine the quantity (in litres) of paraffin oil manufactured; interview re. the running of a tavern on the owner’s own account – Naftali Sztiglitz; Municipality instruction to revise whether his birth certificate has or has not been forged – Abe Leinmann; demand to serve a questionnaire in order to reckon a tax – Kalmon Klein; order re. determination of his ‘property resource’ – Naftali Stieglitz.
- Archival history:
- The records of Krowodrza were kept at the village’s chancellery until 1826. With the establishment of the Mortgage Registry Office, they were moved to the Court of Appeals and temporarily stored at the repository of records of the Senate of the Free City of Krakow, where they were paginated (in 1826 and 1830). In 1890, the records were transferred to the City of Krakow’s Archive of Historical Records. The more recent records, dating to the latter half of the 19th century, were received by the Krakow Archive in 1910. A portion of construction-related records, included separately in the records of the Town of Podgórze, were only transferred in 1953.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Krowodrza was until 1788 a village near Krakow, owned by the Order of the Hospitallers of the Holy Spirit [coll. Polish zakon duchaków]. A contestable area to which the City of Krakow also laid claim, Krowodrza gained the status of a ‘clerical jurydyka [i.e. private tract of land within a town/city]’. When part of the monastic demesne, it was administered by the provost of the convent, who approved the village’s self-government, the vogt and the aldermen (four to seven men) elected under the Ordination (regulations) of 1776 by the gromada (villagers) of Krowodrza. Since 1792, Krowodrza has been a suburb of Krakow and, in parallel, a dominion of St Lazarus’s Hospital (until 1826). Under the Free City of Krakow (1815-46) Krowodrza was reported to the commune [gmina] of Krowodrza-Zwierzyniec; belonged to Circuit [cyrkuł] II since 1838, and from 1855 on, to the County Starosty of Mogiła. The district starosty was made a county office in 1865. In 1868, the latter became Starosty of Krakow, and the precinct [okręg] of the county office of Mogiła was incorporated into it. Finally, in 1909, Krowodrza was made part of Krakow.
- Access points: locations:
- Krowodrza
- Access points: persons/families:
- Amster, Maurycy
- Immerglueck, Ignatz
- Kornblum, Bernard
- Lember, Mojżesz
- Preis, Elias
- Rosenzweig, Hirsch
- Stein, Bernhard
- Wasserlauf, Hermann
- Wortman, Salomon
- System of arrangement:
-
Arrangement of selected units that include Judaica:
29/59/0/-/16 – Protocol of the land municipality [gmina gruntowa] of Krowodrza ... 1817-26
29/59/0/-/17 – Protocols of sessions of the Municipal Council of Krowodrza ... [Vol. II] 1888-1910
29/59/0/-/18 – [Records of elections to the Municipal Council] 1882-1910
29/59/0/-/19 – [Circulars, advertisements] 1867-1910
29/59/0/-/20 – [Circulars of the k.u.k. [Imperial and Royal] Starosty of Krakow] 1880-1903
29/59/0/-/21 – [Circulars of the k.u.k. Starosty of Krakow] 1904-10
29/59/0/-/29 – [Records re. taxes, rents, fees/charges, tithes, etc.] 1831-1910
29/59/0/-/30 – Country of Galicia. Copia. Protocol of housing parcels of the municipality of Krowodrza. Circuit of Krakow ... 1860
29/59/0/-/31 – [Records re. real properties and lands] 1830-1910
29/59/0/-/36 – [(1) Records re. inhabitants, 1859-1910; (2) Records of military affairs, 1850-1909]
29/59/0/-/37 – [Records re. craftsmanship, industry, and commerce – concessions {licences}]
29/59/0/-/38-29/59/0/-/40 – Records of construction and redevelopment of houses, arranged alphabetically by resident
29/59/0/-/22 – [Administrative records of the Municipal Office] 1859-1910
29/59/0/-/47-29/59/0/-/57 – [Incoming correspondence log] 1888-1907
- 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