Metadata: Craft guilds of Kórnik
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives in Poznan
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe w Poznaniu
- Postal address:
- ul. 23 Lutego 41/43, 60-967 Poznań
- Phone number:
- +48 61 852 46 01
- Email:
- archiwum@poznan.ap.gov.pl
- Reference number:
- 53/1331/0/-
- Title:
- Craft guilds of Kórnik
- Title (official language):
- Cechy miasta Kórnik
- Creator/accumulator:
- Craft guilds of Kórnik
- Date(s):
- 1581/1938
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- 77 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection consists of materials produced by municipal guilds - statutes, books of accounts, minutes, registries of privileges and sentences passed by the land court. There are few materials concerning Jews. The relevant records largely concern economic matters and mutual relations in this area between Jews and their non-Jewish surroundings. One archival unit deals with the verdicts of the land court dealing with protests of a Christian guild against the excessive influence of and monopoly over the local trade and crafts by Jewish craftsmen. A very valuable document is the statute of the Jewish tailors guild, which was granted by the town's owner, Teofila Szołdrska née Działyńska, and then authenticated in 1793. The collection also includes:
Ref. no. 3: Privilegium der Judenschneider in Kórnik [Privilege granted to the Jewish tailors of Kórnik]- the text of the statute of the Jewish tailors' guild was translated into German and published in 1754, its authentication took place in 1793; 8° format, 2 cards in a paper binding, wax seal of the town of Kórnik.
Ref. no. 14: Sentence passed by the court of the millers guild in a dispute between Daniel Heyn and the Jews of Swarzędz (Wołek and Salomon Lewków); a trace of a seal squeezed in lacquer, 2 cards with torn edges.
- Archival history:
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The materials included in the Kórnik town guilds collection were produced and collected by the guild authorities, in close connection with the town owner's chancellery. The guild books, files and documentation were kept in cupboards, drawers or chests located in the guild chamber, which often also housed the city seals and the official library. The guilds statutes and privileges documents were locked in the town hall treasury.
In 1869, the Prussian government of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck organised the government State Archives in Poznań (Stadtarchiv Posen), which became part of the network of Prussian state archives. At the beginning of March of that year, Carl Horn, the chief president of Poznań Province, addressed an appeal to communes, associations, institutions and private persons to submit all records to the Poznań archives.
The archives of the guilds of the town of Kórnik were finally placed in the Staadtarchiv Posen at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century as deposits of the magistrates. Archives of cities and guilds in Greater Poland, including the Kórnik collection, returned to the possession of Polish archives after the end of World War I and the Greater Poland Uprising.
In the years 1942-1944, the oldest and most valuable archival materials were taken by the German authorities to Germany or hidden in territories subordinate to the Reich. Among them was the archival collection of the records of the town of Kórnik and its guilds. After the Nazi occupation, a large part of the looted archives was handed over to the State Archives in Poznań, including the collection containing the records of the town of Kórnik.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In Kórnik, guild statutes had to be approved first by the town council and then by the town owner. The issued statutes and privileges were stored in the municipal archives and entered into the ledgers of the particular guild. An assembly of all the guild members held legislative and controlling powers. Executive power was in the hands of the guild elders. Each guild had its own scribe who kept a guild ledger that was kept under lock by the guild elders. This practice existed throughout the Old Polish period. In Kórnik, each guild had its own ledger containing information on the business of guild assemblies, entries of new members, master and apprentice certificates, and books of revenues and expenses. During Prussian rule, the guilds kept their own registers, but were required to deposit copies and all regulations in the municipal archives.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Lewków, Salomon
- Lewków, Wołek
- System of arrangement:
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The collection consists of handwritten volumes - ledgers, accounting books, statutes, privileges, documents, minutes and certificates of guild membership, rolls of acceptance of masters and journeymen as well as certificates and reports from guild meetings. It is arranged thematically as follows:
1. Privilege of the furriers guild in Kórnik, 1747 (ref. no. 1)
2. Privilege of the tailors guild in Kórnik, 1583, (ref. no. 2)
3. Privilege of the guild of Jewish tailors in Kórnik, 1754, (ref. no. 3)
4. Privilege of the construction guild in Kórnik, 1686, (ref. no. 4)
5. Book of names of journeymen starting their education, 1783, (ref. no. 5)
6. The privilege of the dairymen’s guild in Kórnik, 1783, (ref. no. 6)
7. Request by bakers in Kórnik for approval of the guild statute modelled on the statute of bakers in Mosina, which they sent in an appendix to the consistory, 1826, (ref. 7)
8. Copy of the statute of the bakery guild in Mosina from 1776, 1824-1826, (ref. no. 8)
9. Statutory resolution of the bakers guild in Kórnik, 1833, (ref. no. 9)
10. Additions made to the millers guild statute during a guild meeting (ref. no. 10)
11. A copy of an order of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior on changes to the guild statutes and confirmation of the statutes, 1855, (ref. no. 11)
12. Ordinance on the taking on of apprentices in crafts, 1837, (ref. no. 12)
13. Designation of an examination commission and approval by the magistrate, 1861, (ref. no. 13)
14. Sentence passed by the court of the millers guild court in a dispute between Daniel Heyn and Jews, 1780, (ref. no. 14)
15. A sentence passed by a guild in a dispute, 1786, (ref. no. 15)
16. Sentence passed by the highest court of appeal in a dispute between the bakers guild and overlord’s administration in Kórnik, 1824, (ref. no. 16)
17. The inheritance case of Anna Rosina Seifert, 1843, (ref. no. 17)
18. Register of the dairy farmers guild concerning newly admitted members and their craft activities, 1783-1888, (ref. no. 18)
19. Payments for a period of dry days in the millers guild in Kórnik, 1791–1895, (ref. no. 19)
20. Debts ledger for the famous guild of dairy farmers and their activities in Kórnik, 1818–1836, (ref. no. 20)
21. Income and expenses register, including expenses for periods of dry days in the bakers guild, 1833–1883, (ref. no. 21)
22. Book of incomes and expenditures of the guild of millers and bakers in Kórnik, 1833–1883, (ref. no. 22)
23. Debt entries in the millers guild, 1834–1886 (ref. no. 23)
24. Debt receipts of the Kórnik millers, 1828–1850 (ref. no. 24)
25. Certificate regarding the ceremony connected with the blessing of the guild banner, 1887, (ref. no. 25)
26. Notice of the relocation of the millers and bakers guild in Kórnik, 1909 (ref. no. 26)
27. Certificates of legitimate birth, 1783–1810, (ref. no. 27)
28. Master certificates, 1857–1863, (ref. no. 28)
29. Journeyman certificates, 1764–1864, (ref. no. 29)
30. Agreement for training in the bakery profession, 1872, (ref. no. 30)
31. Privilege of the guild of linen drapers in Kórnik, 1678–1685, (ref. no. 31)
32. Privilege of the carpenters and cartwrights guild in Kórnik, 1854 (ref. no. 32)
33. Statute of the carpenters and cartwrights guild, 1887–1898, (ref. no. 33)
34. Acts of the merged carpenters and cartwrights guild in Kórnik, 1892, (ref. no. 34)
35. Statute of the carpenters and cartwrights guild in Kórnik, 1899 (ref. no. 35)
36. A draft of the statute of activities, provisions and regulations concerning the arrangements for the training of apprentices in the craft, 1899, (ref. no. 36)
37. Guild protocol, 1842–1866, (ref. no. 37)
38. Meeting minutes of the guild of carpenters and cartwrights in Kórnik, 1875-1904, (ref. no. 38)
39. Protocol of the guild of carpenters and cartwrights in Kórnik, 1905-1938, (ref. no. 39)
40. Register of entries of masters and apprentices and their promotion to journeymen, 1840–1849, (ref. no. 40)
41. Acceptance to learn the skills of carpentry and cartwright and the promotion of pupils to apprentices, 1863–1875, (ref. no. 41)
42. List of contracts for the training of carpenters and cartwrights in Kórnik, 1900-1928, (ref. no. 42)
43. Guild accounts - income and expenses, 1840–1843, (ref. no. 43)
44. Book of names of members of the carpenters and cartwrights guild in Kórnik, 1846-1905, (ref. no. 44)
45. Statute of the health insurance fund of the carpenters association in Kórnik, 1843, (ref. no. 45)
46. Annual report of the fund for the deceased members of the carpenters and cartwrights guild in Kórnik, 1909–1910, (ref. no. 46)
47. Privilege of the guild of clothiers in Kórnik, 1779 (ref. no. 47)
48. Stanisław Górka, the voivode of Poznań, accepted the requests of shoemakers in Kórnik, and confirmed for them a statutory privilege modelled on the statutory privilege of shoemakers in Środa, 1581, (ref. no. 48)
49. Privilege of the shoemakers guild in Kórnik, 1581 (ref. no. 49)
50. A copy of the privilege for shoemakers in Środa issued by Stanisław Górka, the voivode of Poznań, confirmed and translated into Polish on 6 November 1553, 1651, (ref. no. 50)
51. Privilege of the shoemakers guild in Kórnik, 1747 (ref. no. 51)
52. Protocol established by the brotherhood of shoemaking craftsmanship, 1773–1857, (ref. no. 52)
53. Protocol book of the free shoemakers' guild in Kórnik, 1928–1936, (ref. no. 53)
54. Accounts of the shoemakers guild in Kórnik, 1746–1778, (ref. no. 54)
55. Register of subsidies paid out for periods of dry days, 1802–1848, (ref. no. 55)
56. Guild accounts - income and expenses, 1822–1881, (ref. no. 56)
57. Oath of representatives of the shoemaking craft when reporting the number of craftsmen eligible to pay taxes, 1661, (ref. no. 57)
58. Certificate of learning and impeccable behaviour of Mateusz Świątkoski, 1750, (ref. no. 58)
59. Teofila Szołdrska née Działyńska, heiress of Kórnik, permission for thirteen craftsmen located in Kórnik to govern themselves according to the guild statutes in Swarzędz, stipulating their inviolability, 1747, (ref. no. 59)
60. Correspondence regarding the guild statutes and privileges, 1747–1855, (ref. no. 60)
61. Comments to the normal guild statute, no date, (ref. no. 61)
62. Book of entries of members to the combined guild of all crafts in Kórnik, 1748–1832, (ref. no. 62)
63. Book of enrolment of pupils to learn skills and promotions to journeymen in various crafts, 1748–1799, (ref. no. 63)
64. Book of enrolment of pupils to learn skills and promotions to journeymen in various crafts, 1800–1821, (ref. no. 64)
65. Record book of the common brotherhood, 1821–1833, (ref. no. 65)
66. Book for writing records and promoting pupils, 1834–1872, (ref. no. 66)
67. Report protocols of the guild treasury, 1754–1780, (ref. no. 67)
68. Register of the periods of the so-called dry day tax on dry days and general calculations of guild income and expenditures, 1757-1811, (ref. no. 68)
69. Brotherhood ledger of accounts and receipts, 1794–1814, (ref. no. 69)
70. The book of so-called dry days tax for the years 1817, 1817–1889, (ref. no. 70)
71. Collection of accounts of the common guild, 1817–1843, (ref. no. 71)
72. Specification of the remainder from the so-called dry days tax, 1821, (ref. no. 72)
73. Receipts for borrowed money in the guild, 1830, (ref. no. 73)
74. Receipts for pay out of 10 thalers for the repair of the altar of Saint Anna, 1849, (ref. no. 74)
75. Wojciech Starzycki's certificate of impeccable conduct, 1778, file ref. 75)
76. Journeymen certificates, 1796–1867, (ref. no. 76)
77. Agreement to admit someone to learn with a master blacksmith, 1847, (ref. no. 77).
- Finding aids:
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A printed inventory is available in the archive.
An online finding aid is also available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/de/zespol/-/zespol/16003
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Mikołaj Wojciechowski, University of Wrocław
