Metadata: Vital Records of the Jewish Community in 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:
- 53/3579/0-
- Title:
- Vital Records of the Jewish Community in Kórnik
- Title (official language):
- Akta stanu cywilnego gminy żydowskiej Kórnik
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kórnik Municipal Magistrate
- Date(s):
- 1817/1847
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Extent:
- 0.17 metres (18 folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection consists of materials containing the vital records of the Jewish community in Kórnik. The Jewish population inhabiting the territory of the Prussian partition (the territory of the Grand Duchy of Poznań from 1815) was obliged to register births, marriages and deaths. All information was entered into the appropriate book; in the case of Jews from Kórnik, they were registered in a separate volume - in the presence of municipal officials who, according to the existing law, were obliged to maintain the registers. The Kórnik collection is divided into four types:
Birth records (1817–1835):
1. ref. 53/3579/0 / 1.1 / 1 - Geburtsliste (1817–1827). In the indicated period, there were 504 newborns registered - 340 newborns were born in the years 1817–1823, while 164 newborns were born in the years 1824–1827.
2. ref. 53/3579/0 / 1.1 / 4 - Geburtsliste (1832–1835). There were 124 births registered in this period.
Marriage records (1817–1834):
1. ref. 53/3579/0 / 4.1 / 2 - Heiratsliste (1817–1834). 107 marriages were registered in this perios; 39 marriages were concluded in the years 1817–1824, and in the following years: 1825 - 3 marriages, 1826 - 7 marriages, 1827 - 2 marriages, 1828 - 10 marriages, 1829 - 4 marriages, 1830 - 6 marriages, 1831 - 4 marriages, 1832 - 6 marriages, 1833 - 21 marriages, 1834 - 5 marriages.
Death records (1817–1835):
1. ref. no. 53/3579/0/5/3 - Todesliste (1817–1831). A total of 286 Jews died In the period indicated, while deaths were recorded in the following periods: in the years 1817–1823 - 105 people, in 1824 - 12 people, in 1825 - 19 people, in 1826 - 16 people, in 1827. - 32 people, in 1828 - 45 people, in 1829 - 21 people, in 1830 - 14 people, in 1831 - 22 people.
2. ref. no. 53/3579/0/5/5 - Todesliste (1832-1835). A total of 61 people died in the period indicated, including in 1832 - 26 people, in 1833 - 17 people, in 1834 - 17 people, in 1835 - 1 person.
Birth, marriage, and death certificates (1835–1847):
1. ref. no. 53/3579/0 / 6.1 / 6 - 53/35/79/0 / 6.1 / 18 – Geburts, Heirats und Todesliste (1835–1847)
The registers in all four types of books were maintained in tabulated form. Specific ledgers contain the following information:
1. births - name and surname of the parents, profession of the father, name of the infant, date of its birth. The archival unit is incomplete - there are no entries for the period 1828–1831.
2. Marriages - name and surname of the bride and groom, the groom's profession, information about the witnesses, their origin and religion, date of the marriage.
3. Deaths - name and surname of the deceased, the day of death, age and the cause of death.
4. Births, marriages and deaths - in contrast to the previously recorded registers, these registers were all entered into one record book, with entries in tabular form.
- Archival history:
- The materials included in the Kórnik collection were produced and collected by the municipal authorities and stored in the local town hall. Each vital record was recorded in two books – the original remained on site, and the other was transferred to the district court's mortgage archive (duplicate). Throughout the entire Prussian partition, including Kórnik, from 1875, keeping record books was entrusted to officials called recordholders [metrykanci], whose responsibility was to provide the county office with one of the two copies after entries were completed for a given calendar year. In the twentieth century, the original parish registers were transferred to Stadtarchiv Posen as municipal deposits. During World War II, many archives were taken to Germany, hidden in the territories of the Reich, or destroyed. The Kórnik register of vital records was one of the few that survived the occupation. After the end of hostilities, the vital records of the Jewish community in Kórnik were incorporated into the Stadtarchiv Posen’s successor - the State Archives in Poznań.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The oldest vital records in Poland come from the 16th century. Keeping records became an obligation resulting from the resolutions adopted at the Council of Trent (1545-1563). Initially, registers of baptisms and marriages were kept, registration of deaths came later. From the 17th century, Roman Catholic parish priests were obliged to keep five record categories: baptisms, confirmations, marriages, deaths and lists of parishioners. From the 18th century, dates of birth were also entered; the date of the funeral and the date of death were also recorded in death registers. Giving the cause of death also became customary and the age of the deceased was entered.
Many changes in the way in which registers were kept were introduced during the partitions. In the years 1794-1812, the registration of births, marriages and deaths of Jews was carried out by municipalities. By virtue of the Emancipation Edict of 11 March 1812 regarding the civic status of Jews, they were divided into two groups: naturalised and non-naturalised. Naturalised Jews were entered on the list of state "citizens". From that year, the Jewish population was obliged to register births, marriages and deaths with the town police authorities or before the landrat (village inhabitants). In 1847, an ordinance was issued on the civil certification of births, marriages and deaths of Jews and ‘dissidents’.
From 1849, the above functions were taken over by county courts. In the Prussian partition, until 1874, record books for each denomination were kept by the appropriate parish, while registers of Jewish inhabitants were kept by magistrates, town police authorities and bailiffs. Copies of the books were sent to district courts. In 1874, registry offices were established in Prussia. The civil clerks were mayors or village mayors. They maintained three types of registers: births, marriages and deaths. Each registry office kept two registers simultaneously: main register and a secondary register.
- Access points: locations:
- Kórnik
- System of arrangement:
-
The collection consists of vital records – registers of births, marriages and deaths:
1. birth records (1817–1835) – ref. no. 53/3579/0 / 1.1
2. marriages records (1817–1834) – ref. no. 53/3579/0 / 4.1
3. death records (1817–1835) – ref. no. 53/3579/0/5
4. Birth, marriage and death certificates (1835–1847) – ref. nos. 53/3579/0 / 6.1 / 6 - 53/35/79/0 / 6.1 / 18
- 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/19099
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Mikołaj Wojciechowski, University of Wrocław
