Metadata: Archive of Free City of Krakow. Records of the Presidium of the Senate
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- National Archives in Krakow
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie
- Postal address:
- ul. Sienna 16, 30-960 Kraków
- Phone number:
- (+48 12) 4224094
- Web address:
- http://ank.gov.pl/
- Email:
- sekretariat@ank.gov.pl
- Reference number:
- 29/200/4.1.3 WMK-III
- Title:
- Archive of Free City of Krakow. Records of the Presidium of the Senate
- Title (official language):
- Archiwum Wolnego Miasta Krakowa. Akta Prezydium Senatu
- Creator/accumulator:
- Senate of the Free City of Krakow
- Date(s):
- 1815/1848
- Date note:
- 1815-1820, 1821-1824, 1825-1833, 1833-1847, 1842-1844, 1845-1847, 1838-1841,1842-1844, 1845-1848
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 85 units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The records of the Presidium of the Senate of the Free City of Krakow are an integral part of the larger repository that is the Archive of the Free City of Krakow. They consist of incoming correspondence logs, repertories of cases handled by the presidium of the Senate, various records collected in fascicles, including correspondence of the President of the Governing Senate and the Police Department. Most are cases of an administrative nature, mainly ordinances to parliamentary resolutions, decisions on granting amnesties to convicts, as well as criminal matters. Jewish materials include residence permits, trade matters (including salt) and crafts (especially the employment of Christian servants), petty offences and criminal matters, arrests and passports, reports.
WMK III-1: Jews in the salt trade (Grünbaum), issues related to the Sabbath by Jews, issues related to the imposition of candle taxes on Jews.
WMK III-2: the case of the illegal residency of journeyman Szymon Abraham Weinberg from Pilica in the Free City of Krakow, Arrests of Jews: Blonde, Laufer, Openheim, defamation of officials (including Pelc Abraham, tavern owner – attack on an orderly of the police department in the Senate), laws and drafts of laws.
WMK III-10a: Files on the Jewish dealer in stolen goods Welner, Mueller's request for permission to marry Sztaknerowa, the widowed sister of his deceased wife; order to arrest Lewek Schein of Chrzanów, investigation regarding Silberberg, detention of Jonas Bester of Szczakowa, among others.
WMK III-10b: lists of rents; letters from Chaia Cwirn regarding her husband Solomon placed in the house of punishment and reform; a letter from Meisels and Horowitz on fraud in the transport of goods from Livorno; civil criminal case between Poss and Feldmann; the case of Horowitz being shot in the synagogue; Mrs. Rejner's complaint against various people, including Gerson Danglowicz; requests to the President of the Ruling Jews supplication to the President of the governing Senate for release from police punishment, resolution of the Senate regarding bringing Merker’s future wife for Merker from New Town Korczyn to the Free City of Krakow; Pawliker’s illegal trade in salt.
WMK III-12a: Statement submitted by Tauber and his passport; case concerning the involvement of Jews in a murder; Rozenthal's request for a residence permit, Liber of Pińczów accused of vagrancy, residency documents of Pflaumenhaft and Abraham Bick from Brody; Gligerówna of Brzesko; residency cases of the wet nurse to the Kołek children, Hirszfeld, Weisblum, Spira of Pilica, Szerer the tailor’s case of unlawful acceptance of an apprentice from outside the Free City of Krakow, Hönigbaum case regarding a beating, residency of Gutman; accusation of Dobrowolski accused of defamation by Silberstein; residency cases of Unger, Herbs, Moszkowicz, Blutman of Żarnowiec, Spigler.
WMK III-12 b: Mainly Jewish matters – granting Jews permission to reside in the Free City of Krakow: Satzberger, Kurtz, Unterberger, Mendelsohn, Polaczek, Blecher, Preis, Krakowska, Rapaport, Brenner, Amster, Neumann, Strengiel, Brun, Schlesinger, Rosenblatt, Długacz, Fromer criminal case, disruption of order by Jews in Chrzanów, report by Lipschütz
- Archival history:
- The Senate Central Archive was created in 1816. The records of the Senate of the Free City of Krakow were stored at Grodzka st. in the city in the church of St. Peter. They remained there until 1856, after which they were transferred to the Carmelite monastery on Sand (na Piasku). The records were absorbed into the collection of the imperial and royal (kaiserlich und königlich) Starostwo in Krakow in 1870, at which point some of them were lost. Then the files were transferred to the archives in the Spiski Palace on the Main Square. Some of them were taken by the Austrians to Vienna (Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv). In 1900, the records of the Free City of Krakow (the so-called Senate Archives) were transferred to Holy Cross church. In 1906, the records were absorbed into the Archive of Historical Records of the City of Krakow.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The Free City of Krakow together with the surrounding district (okręg) was created in 1815 during the Congress of Vienna by Austria, Prussia and Russia and was popularly called the Republic of Krakow. It included the capital, that is Krakow, as well as the towns of Chrzanów, Trzebinia and Nowa Góra and 224 villages. The Free City of Krakow operated on the basis of constitutions of 1815, 1818 and 1833 with amendments, organic statutes and transitional laws regulating citizens' lives, the economy, etc.
The government of the Free City of Krakow established the Senate, which carried out the orders of the residents of the governing powers. The Senate was composed of the president together with life-long and temporary senators appointed by election. There were 13 senators in the Senate (including the president), as of 1833 there were only 7 senators and the president.
- System of arrangement:
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29/200/0 / 4.1.3 / 115-29 / 200/0 / 4.1.3 / 118 Miscellanea (various records) and loose records (1815-1833)
29/200/0 / 4.1.3 / 118-29 / 200/0 / 4.1.3 / 157 bundles (records arranged numerically) (1833-1847)
29/200/0 / 4.1.3 / 158 Police Department records (1836-1845)
29/200/0 / 4.1.3 / 159-29 / 200/0 / 4.1.3 / 178 Senate Incoming correspondence logs (1816-1847)
29/200/0 / 4.1.3 / 179 Daily Record of the presidium of the Imperial-Royal Administrative Council (1847)
29/200/0 / 4.1.3 / 180-29 / 200/0 / 4.1.3 / 188 Register of the Presidium of the Senate (1838-1846)
29/200/0 / 4.1.3 / 189 Register of the Imperial-Royal Administrative Council (1847)
29/200/0 / 4.1.3 / 192-29 / 200/0 / 4.1.3 / 199 Receipts of the Presidium of the Senate and the Central (1833-1848)
- Finding aids:
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W. Bartel, Ustrój i prawo Wolnego Miasta Krakowa, Kraków 1976.
Online finding aids are also available.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://www.respoliticae.ujd.edu.pl/media/domeny/149/static/dokumenty/from-the-history-of-the-free-city-of-cracow-selected-political-and-legal-aspects-Content-File-PDF.pdf
- http://mec.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/wolne_miasto_krakow.pdf
- http://mbc.malopolska.pl/Content/94576/KRA_23_MBC.pdf
- https://szukajwarchiwach.pl/29/200/0/4.1.3/str/1/100#tabJednostki
- https://www.archiwa.gov.pl/images/docs/archeion/archeion_tom_xxii.pdf
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Przemysław Zarubin, Kraków, 2019
