Metadata: Municipal Board of Wieliczka
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:
- 29/117 C
- Title:
- Municipal Board of Wieliczka
- Title (official language):
- Zarząd Miejski w Wieliczce
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal Board of Wieliczka
- Date(s):
- 1826/1940
- Date note:
- 1848-1939; 1826-1939; 1868-1939; 1867-1940; 1867-1915
- Language:
- German
- Polish
- Extent:
- 219 units (the size of the collection is unknown)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds covers the area of Wieliczka. Lednica and Grabówki. Wieliczka is a town that was founded in the 13th century and is today located in the Voivodeship of Małopolska [Lesser Poland] (województwo małopolskie), County (powiat) of Wieliczka, Metropolitan Area of Krakow; known for its salt mine. Fast demographic development of the local Jewish population was recorded since the 1860s, along with the development of the alcoholic beverage and paper industries. With Wieliczka’s 981 Jewish residents (10% of the total population) as of 1900, the town had three synagogues.
The following files contain Jewish-related material:
29/117/84: Notices of the kaiserlich und königlich (k.u.k.) [Austro-Hungarian] Governorships in Lwów and Krakow re. animal slaughter and meat, trading in cereals; Jews as members of the county (powiat) economic council (Rosenzweig) and communal economic council (Horowitz); circulars re. sales of meat; Jews as officials empowered to purchase cereals and oil; circulars to butchers.
29/117/86: Jewish names in general census sheets and in lists of the Commune’s houses.
29/117/89-90: Jews employed on a full-time basis with municipality service.
29/117/102: Jews in municipal committees as leaseholders of municipal lands, members of the town council; lists of butchers’ and merchants’ stalls in the town and their auctioning; Jews as leaseholders of food taxes (Wimmer); resolutions re. Jews joining the Commune [as compulsory in Austrian-Polish Galicia] (Chaim, Dattner).
29/117/103: Commission for the municipal slaughterhouse; Jews as members of commissions for estimation of the inventory of the Commune’s estate, construction, electricity, law, as members of the town council, listed as attendees of the communal council, stall rents (Feig); retirement pension granted to a veterinarian; acceptance of new members of the Commune and listing them in the tax cadastre; subsidies in support of commerce and industry, paid to an association of Jewish merchants; allowances for Jewish orphans; expenditure for a Jewish coal supplier.
29/117/164: Resolution re. maintaining cleanness at Jewish butcher stalls and lease thereof; re. remuneration for the veterinarian; re. building of a motorboat platform (Konigsberger), construction of a sewerage system (Goldmann); Jews listed as taxpayers paying the municipal tax, writs ordering to pay tax arrears; requests from Jewish leaseholders re. market tax; veterinarian’s memos re. control actions taken; order for Weisblum to tidy up the dosshouse.
29/117/165: Appointment of a sanitary committee for dirt and waste in residential estates; determination of the conditions for lease of a stall; deferment and reduction of toll (Goldberger); refusal to reduce a stall tax (Gleitzman); exemption of market fees (Nebenzahl); allowance for Zimmels to cover the cost of treatment of an orphan; permit for Dr Rakower for upgrade of an apartment; agreements with the Jewish community re. provision of sewerage to Klaśnieńska St. and arrangement for a road to the Jewish cemetery.
29/117/174: Complaints of coal supplier Hirsch about not having received the money due for delivery of coal to the brickyard; Jews listed among the brickyard’s creditors; accounts of Hirsch’s company; accounts of the business of Friedman, owner of a steam-powered sawmill.
29/117/190: Jews listed among those obligated to pay contributions to the Austrian army; lists of Jews doing business; Jews specified in land measurement calculations; contract for leasehold of market and fair tax, liquor licence tax; Jews listed among publicans.
29/117/197: Register of revenues and rental arrears from Jewish stalls, default interest and penalties.
29/117/229 List of dues to be paid for legal service (Dr Horowitz, attorney); accounts of Lichta company, trading in produce and artificial fertilisers.
29/117/246: Control of those under police surveillance (Perlberger, Friedman).
29/117/248: A certain Nattel’s request for dispensing a passport; letters to the Communal Council re. Jewish vagrancy.
29/117/251: Letters from convoy-men concerning criminals and vagrants; Jews listed among those expelled from the Commune; descriptions of the wanted; Jews among those listed as unfit for being convoyed; police reports; memos of the k.u.k. Starosty (administrative authority) of Wieliczka to the Association of Jewish Youth in Wieliczka.
29/117/269: Purchases of real estate within the town; auctioning of Jewish property in Niewiarów; police forms used with those accused of transgression.
29/117/324: Personal file of Hirsch Herman, the municipal veterinarian of Wieliczka in 1911-32 (personal sheet, service record, retirement pension, etc.).
- Archival history:
- There is no inventory or handover report for the records. The records were probably kept at Wieliczka’s Town Hall or at the archive of the local Municipal Council. The National Archives in Krakow probably took over the collection after the Second World War. Initially, a temporary inventory was compiled for these units.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In the second half of the 19th century, the superior authority of the commune (Communal Board) was elected by the council and controlled through some twenty commissions, referred to as sections. The Commune’s head – the chairman of the communal council – was called the burgomaster [Polish: burmistrz]; there was a deputy plus three to five assessors. Supervision of the town’s government was exercised by the cyrkuł (district administration office) of Bochnia and subsequently by the County Department in Wieliczka. Matters in the burgomaster’s discretion were partly handled by the Starost of the Cyrkuł of Bochnia and, later on, by the County Starost of Wieliczka. The Commune moreover employed a reckoner, cashier, constructor, physician and police inspector. As of 1883, the town council consisted of as many as forty councillors.
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Census records
- Crime
- Legal matters
- Real estate
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
-
The fonds is arranged as follows:
I. General Organisational Section, 1848-1939
II. Financial and Budgetary Section, 1826-1939
III. Communal Management Section, 1868-1939
IV. Administrative Section, 1867-1940
V. Chancellery/office aids, 1867-1915
VI. Correspondence, 1913
29/117/3.1/86: [Statistical matters, statistics for Wieliczka], 1881-1931
29/117/3.1/87: [Organisational affairs of inter-communal associations], 1917-1931
29/117/3.1/88: [Elections for local-government bodies], 1866-1926
29/117/3.1/89: [Personal affairs of members of municipal bodies], 1867-1931
29/117/3.1/90: [Statutes of posts/positions held by municipal workers and regulations re. personal matters], 1879-1930
29/117/3.1/91: [Personal affairs of municipal workers – executives and independent positions]
29/117/3.1/84: Circulars, orders/instructions of supreme authorities
9/117/3.1/94-9/117/0/3.1/107: Resolutions of the Town Council
29/117/3.1/108-29/117/0/3.1/134: Minutes of sessions of the Town Council
29/117/3.1/141-29/117/0/3.1/151: Protocols of the Town Council
29/117/3.1/171-29/117/0/3.1/173: [Sales of lands and movable properties within the town]
29/117/3.1/324 [Personal file: Hirsch Herman, Municipal Veterinarian]
29/117/3.2/176-29/117/3.2/186: Budgetary
29/117/3.2/191-29/117/3.2/199: Rents, stalls, lands
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Przemysław Zarubin, Kraków, 2018
