Metadata: Records of the City of Nowy Sącz
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:
- 29/110/0
- Title:
- Records of the City of Nowy Sącz
- Title (official language):
- Akta miasta Nowego Sącza
- Creator/accumulator:
- Council of the City of Nowy Sącz; Vogt and aldermen’s office of the City of Nowy Sącz; Municipal Office of Nowy Sącz
- Date(s):
- 1461/1848
- Date note:
- 1461; 1488-1816; 1828-1848
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Latin
- French
- Extent:
- 145 units (8.2 linear metres)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds covers the city of Nowy Sącz. Established in the thirteenth century, Nowy Sącz is presently a city with district rights, located in the Province (Voivodeship) of Małopolska. Jews first settled in the town in the 1670s. The Jewish residents became more active in the early 18th century and Jewish-related material from the first half of the 18th century appears in the town council’s and vogt and aldermen’s registers – with Jews featured in non-contentious, civil (debts, intromissions, inheritance-related) and criminal cases (mainly thefts). After 1770, for the Partition period, numerous Jewish-related materials are found in the records of the local cyrkuł (administrative unit) – mainly, administrative orders of the circular (i.e. cyrkuł’s) office and the circular starost or, as a replacement of the latter, circular commissioner. Numerous mentions of Jews appear in memos and letters from the cyrkułs of Bochnia, Krakow, and Myślenice, describing the policies of Austrian authorities towards Jews. The following files contain Jewish-related material:
2. Vogt and aldermen’s registers (civil and criminal jurisdiction), 1488-1782 (ref. no. AD 49–72, 74–76, 78–81, 84–87, 90–94, 96–100, 102, 105, 107–110, 112–114, 118, 120–122, 124–127, 129, 130, 138, 141, 145, 967).
3. Council’s registers (administration, judicature), 1599-1782 (ref. no. AD 73, 77, 82, 83, 88, 89, 95, 101, 103, 104, 106, 111, 115–117, 119, 123, 128, 131–137, 139, 140, 142–144, 146–148).
5. Taxes (tax registers, contributions), 1652-1769 (ref. no. AD 554–568).
7. Municipal Council [magistrat] (administration, instructions of the cyrkuł) 1782-1848 (ref. no. AD 569-572, 582, 900-903).
8. Miscellaneous, 1547-1833 (ref. no. AD 574-578, 898).
29/110//92: 1705-1712 – liquor excise tax [czopowe] from local Jews as starost’s publicans (tavern keepers).
29/110/93: 1705-1712 – Jews granting loans on pawn, receivers of stolen property; testimonies of Jewish criminals.
29/110/0/3/94: 1714–1730 – Jews trading in tobacco, affairs related to Jewish debts, quarrels between neighbours.
29/110/0/65: Privilege granted by Jerzy Lubomirski, Starost of Nowy Sącz, to local Jews, 1730.
29/110/0/66: 1741–1759 – dispute around the localisation of a Jewish cemetery.
29/110/0/99: 1762–1768 – testimonies of criminals re. robberies at Jewish inns.
29/110/138: Agreement between the Municipal Council and the Jews re. hiberna (i.e. obligation to quarter and provide food to troops stationing in wintertime in royal and ecclesiastical estates); petition to the commissioner’s court against Jews failing to financially contribute to the hiberna.
29/110/129: Protocol of the Municipal Office of Nowy Sącz, 1782-6: arrest warrants; 1784: police arrangement (related to behaviour of Jews with respect to Christian service), regulations re. sales of goods; 1785 – circular ordinance re. conscription of Jews in Nowy Sącz, Bobowa and Grybów; 1784/5 – municipal arrangement re. founding of kirkuts (Jewish cemeteries); 1785 – ordinance re. Jewish publicans having committed offences, re. Jewish butchers soliciting permission for slaughter of kosher meat; 1786 – re. creditors of the local kahal.
29/110/139: Extracts from town registers of Nowy Sącz, Biecz, and voivode’s registers: 1711 – search in Jewish houses; wording of a Jewish oath; Jews in testament inventories of Nowy Sącz councillors; memos from the Chapter of of Nowy Sącz re. ousting of Jews; complaints/claims against the Jews of Sandomierz, 1730; list of privileges granted by the municipality of Sandomierz to Jews; commissioner’s decree regarding the Jews of Sandomierz; complaints/claims against the Jews of Nowy Sącz and Nowy Sącz municipality’s privileges for local Jews; attestation of the burgrave’s court for a Jew; decree of the court of conciliation regarding the leaseholders of starost’s breweries; supplications of the Town of Nowy Sącz to the Starost thereof; decree of the castle’ court [sąd grodzki] of Nowy Sącz re. the dispute between the local Jews and the Municipal Council regarding the weigh house; manifestation of the vogt [wójt] of Nowy Sącz against Jews regarding the impoverishment of burghers.
29/110/135: 1807–1816 – instructions/orders and circulars of Austrian cyrkułs, banning Jewish tailors and goldsmiths from making and selling church objects; letters re. Jewish school fund; supplying victuals to the army; desertion; list of Jews who failed to appear in 1815 before the Austrian conscription commission; ordinance obligating Jews to pay their taxes to the supreme-level communes; proceeds from the ‘candle tax’ and ‘kosher tax’ collected from Jews.
- Archival history:
- The municipal records were kept at the Nowy Sącz town hall until 1894, when a considerable portion of them were destroyed. The most valuable records were deposited at the Archives of Historical Records in Krakow. A part of the records were deposited, around 1912, at the Museum of the Nowy Sącz Land archive; they were temporarily stored at the Nowy Sącz Castle in the 1930s. The collection was taken over by the Germans during the Second World War and probably removed to Zgorzelec (then known as Görlitz) and never retrieved. Some Old Polish registers/books, e.g. those related to guilds, are kept by the Polish Academy of Sciences/Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU/PAN) Library in Krakow.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Prior to the Partitions of Poland, power in the town of Nowy Sącz was wielded by the Municipal Council or the magistrat composed of the municipal bench (itself consisting of the vogt, deputy vogt [podwójci] and six aldermen) and the town council headed by the burgomaster [burmistrz] (and consisting of six councillors, four of which were appointed by the starost). In 1770 Nowy Sącz was annexed by Austria; in 1773, the Austrian authorities established six administrative units called cyrkułs, subdivided into a total of fifty-nine districts; Nowy Sącz was made the capital town of one of the nine districts within the Cyrkuł of Wieliczka. Since 1782 Galicia (the Austrian Partition territory) was divided into eighteen cyrkułs (districts), with Nowy Sącz becoming the seat of a cyrkuł. The latter was headed by a starost or Kreishauptmann, with three or four commissioners assisting him. These commissioners controlled the municipal government and the life of the area’s residents, including Jewish residents, by way of issuing circulars and ordinances.
- Access points: locations:
- Biecz
- Bobowa
- Grybów
- Nowy Sącz
- Sandomierz
- System of arrangement:
-
The fonds is arranged as follows:
29/110/0/2/2-29/110/0/2/67 – Acta scabinalia (records of the aldermen)
29/110/0/3/69-29/110/0/3/82 – Acta consularia (records of the town council)
29/110/0/3/83-29/110/0/3/101 – Acta consularia et scabinalia
29/110/0/4/103-29/110/0/4/110 – Registers of the municipality’s income and expenditures
29/110/0/7/129 – ‘Protocol of the k.u.k. Circular Office of Nowy Sącz of the warrants and publications given to the Town of Nowy Sącza since 1782’
29/110/0/7/134-29/110/0/7/137 – [Collection of circulars, advertisements, ordinances, etc., of the Circular Starost at Nowy Sącz]
29/110/0/8/138-29/110/0/8/139 – Miscellaneous
- 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:
- K. Goluchowski, ‘Inwentarz Archiwum miasta Nowego Sącza z lat 1291-1772’, Rocznik Sądecki, vol. 3, 1957, pp. 175–315.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Przemysław Zarubin, Kraków, 2018