Metadata: Commune of Płaszów
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:
- 29/63/0
- Title:
- Commune of Płaszów
- Title (official language):
- Gmina Płaszów
- Creator/accumulator:
- Authorities of the Municipality of Płaszów
- Date(s):
- 1428/1912
- Date note:
- 1428-1781; 1867-1912
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Czech
- Russian
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 41 units (1.42 linear metres)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Graphic material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds covers Płaszów as well as Wieliczka and Podgórze. Płaszów is an area in Krakow, part of its District XIII – Podgórze. Until 1912, it was village located outside Krakow, on the right bank of the Vistula river. There is a considerable amount of Jewish-related material from the 19th and 20th century, particularly in the following series and files:
2. Municipality assets, account books, tax fasjas [i.e. returns/declarations] 1877-1912 (ref. no. GmP X/10-30)
3. Residents, military affairs, construction industry, roadworks, school, parish, sanitary supervision, accidents and transgressions and infringements 1890-1912 (ref. no. GmP X/31-37)
4. Incoming correspondence logs 1899-1911 (ref. no. GmP X/38-41)
29/63/02-29/63/04: Płaszów GMP X-2 to GMP X-4 – Resolutions of the Municipal Council: burning and transportation of bricks – Hirsz Rosenzweig; concessions (licences) for running a licensed liquor tavern – Hermann Bernstein, Leopold Fautmann, Wilhelm Bernstein, Ludwik Wasserberger; names of members of the religious community– incl. Hermann Goldberg, the Head; agreement determining the setting of a narrow-gauge railroad track – Jakub Gruenberg; requests for extension of curfew – Hermann Bernstein. Council electoral registers, voting sheets and protocols featuring Jewish names – Herman Goldberger, Herman Bernstein, Leopold Taubman, Abraham Reich; affairs re. those employed with the Municipality and running a business – Jakub Rothirsch’s brickyard, Leopold Taubmann’s gypsum factory/mine, Jakub Gruenberger’s brickyard, Geisler’s brickyard.
29/63/0/-/38 to 29/63/0/-/41 – Most of the Jewish-related material is found in the incoming correspondence register files, which specify the subject of the matter considered by the communal authorities, proposed options for the Commune to handle the matter in question, the authority and the parties receiving the letters, the subject of the complaint, dispute or problem. The other important sources include letters concerning local Jewish people to and from the following authorities and institutions: Letters of the Starosty of Podgórze, Municipality Offices [magistrats] of Podgórze and Krakow, the k.u.k. (kaiserlich und königlich, i.e. Imperial-and-Royal) County Court of Podgórze, the k.u.k. Krakow Board of Police. The comprise calls to appear before the Municipality Office – Fajga Buechler Liffeman; medical treatment expenditure – Bela Braun; auction of assets – Hermann Bernstein; auction of liquors and dishes/vessels – Józef Wasserberger; summons to pay – Herman Gold, Abraham Reich, and Leopold Bernstein; auction of horses and a wagoner’s cart – Leopold Taubamann; notices of the wanted Regina Fautmann; bail bonds – Leopold Taubman; memo recommending the submission of an application for establishment of a vodka manufacturing plant – Władysław Bernstein; birth-certificate matters – Józef Wasserkluger; official letters re. banking, residence, residential, economic, administrative affairs, including supply of missing documents – Jakub Gruenberg, Herman Goldberg, Bischko Lipperman, Maurycy Bernstein, Abraham Reich, Jesser Bernstein; military passports and conscription cards of the Austrian army – Izrael Waldmann; inspections of business operations – Józef Wasserberger: restaurant and sale of commodities, wines, beers, sweetened liquors; Jakub Rotchirsch: brick and clay manufacturing plant; requests for extension of curfew – Hermann Bernstein, Leopold Taubmann; requests for certification of moral conduct and assessment of property – Wilhelm Bernstein, Hirsch Bernstein, Salomon Haas, Natalia Bernstein; requests for building permit, declarations re. tax assessment, certificates of membership with the respective municipality – Hirsch Bernstein; resolutions re. penalty of fine imposed for infringement of the curfew, administrative orders/injunctions re. the labour law, e.g. submittal of documents testifying to the employment of workers – Jakub Rothirsch.
29/63/31: Płaszów GMP X-31 – Jews of Płaszów as senders of queries to the Municipality Office: re. determination of municipality membership – Hermann Goldberg, Rebeka Kaufman; questionnaire of a deserter from the Austrian army – Adolf Taubmann.
29/63/37: Płaszów: GMP X-37 – Jews, also, in money collection affairs; e.g. the executive committee of Podgórze and Wieliczka collecting money for flood victims and survivors – S Aronsohn of Podgórze; requests to have tax assessment reduced – Jakub Gruenberg, Jakub Rothirsch; re. conditions of maintenance of servants – Jakub Gruenberg.
29/63/06: Płaszów GMP X-06 – Jews or individuals of Jewish background listed as sworn judges for the year 1899 (across the municipalities of Krakow); lists of assessors and their deputies for the Industrial Court of Krakow mention, inter alia: Samuel Apfelbaum, Emanuel and Mojżesz Blankstein, Joachim Birmbaum, Nachman Englaender, Michał Fraenkel, Samuel Eichhorn, Izrael Fischlowitz, Izydor Fuerstein, Markus Fussman, Maks Horowitz, Salomon Isenberg, Daniel Faufmann, Bernard Liban, Dawid Szymon Mandel, Wolff Mueller, Gabriel Nichthauser, Juda Leib Peiper, Dawid Rothirsch, Zygmunt Ruebenbauer, Salomon Ritterman, Samuel Winkler, Eliasz Tiefenbrun.
- Archival history:
- The records of Płaszów were kept at the village’s chancellery until 1826. With the formation 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 taken over by the City of Krakow’s Archive of Historical Records. The more recent records (nine fascicles dating to the second half of the 19th century) were received by the Krakow Archive in 1912. A portion of construction-related records, included separately in the records of the Town of Podgórze, were taken over as late as 1953.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The village of Płaszów was owned in the thirteenth century by the Norbertine Nuns’ convent at Zwierzyniec; subsequently it was owned by knights. Administered by the royal governor of Krakow in the eighteenth century, Płaszów was incorporated into Austria with the First Partition of Poland-Lithuania in 1772. In 1866, the local County Office turned into a starosty. The Municipality [gmina] of Płaszów was granted broad competencies; a municipal council was set up, which elected a ‘superiority’ for the municipality (i.e., a vogt and several assessors). A ‘(rural) commune’ [gmina wiejska], Płaszów reported from then on to the county’s local government –specifically, the County Department in Wieliczka; state-wise (i.e. in terms of central authority) the area was subordinated to the k.u.k. Starosty of Podgórze. Płaszów was finally incorporated into Krakow in 1911-12.
- System of arrangement:
-
Units that contain Judaica are arranged as follows:
29/63/0/ to /29/63/0/-/3 – Protocols of sessions of the Municipal {Communal} Council... 1867-1912
29/63/0/-/4 – [Records re. elections to the Municipal {Communal} Council, lists of voters] 1884-1911
29/63/0/-/29 – [Records re. payment of taxes, tax fasjas {returns/declarations}] 1890-1911
29/63/0/-/30 – [Records re. real properties and lands] 1894-1911
29/63/0/-/31 – [(1) Records re. inhabitants of the Commune/Municipality, 1896-1912; (2) Records re. military affairs, 1897-1912] 1896-1912
29/63/0/-/32 – [Records re. craftsmanship, industry, and commerce] 1897-1912 29/63/0/-/33 – [(1) Construction of houses (building permits)] 1897-1911
29/63/0/-/37 – [(1) Reports on occurrences, 1908–11; (2) Transgressions/infringements, field damages/losses 1897–1911
29/63/0/-/38-29/63/0/-/41 [Incoming correspondence log] 1899-1903, 1907-09, 1911
- 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
