Metadata: Ostrów Wielkopolski town records
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:
- 53/4335/0/-
- Title:
- Ostrów Wielkopolski town records
- Title (official language):
- Akta miasta Ostrów Wielkopolski
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Ostrów Wielkopolski
- Date(s):
- 1620/1841
- Language:
- Polish
- Latin
- German
- Extent:
- 0.53 metres (25 folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection consists of materials produced by the municipal administration. The documents are thematically divided and cover legislative, judicial and commercial issues created by the municipal authorities of Ostrów Wielkopolski. Jewish-related records are very numerous and mainly concern the supervision of Jews by the authorities and their relations with their non-Jewish surroundings. The collection also includes ordinances issued to Jews by the owners of Ostrów and town ordinances:
I / 2 - Ordinance for the town of Ostrów by Jan Jerzy Przebendowski In Nomine Domine Amen (1717) - matters concerning Jews from Ostrów. Includes the original written in German (pp. 27-42) and a copy in Polish (pp. 68-89).
I / 2 - The statute for the town of Ostrów, issued by Franciszek Bieliński (1730) - it also mentions regulations concerning Jews (pp. 90–112).
I / 3 - Instruction of Karol Betche, counsellor to His Royal Highness, Honourable General Commissioner Plenipotentiary. Instruction for Jews in the town of Ostrów on 3 January 1785 (3.I.1785) - the aforementioned ordinance (pp. 19-20).
I / 4 - Receipt of debt repayment concluded between castellan Apolonia Koźmińska and the Jew Marek Ostrowski in 1737 (p. 54).
I / 4 - Jew Lewek acknowledges receipt of an ox from the town of Ostrów 1736 (pp. 76-77).
I / 4 - Franciszek Bieliński, Grand Marshal of the Crown, Starosta of Garwolin, Mirachowo, Brodnica, Osieck etc. and Dorota Henrietta Bielińska née Przebendowska (1736) - Privilege for the Jews of Ostrów granted by Franciszek and Dorota Henrietta Bieliński (pp. 98–103).
I / 5 - Attack on Jews from the town of Brody in 1726 (pp. 48–51).
I / 5 - Jews from Ostrów guarantee the repayment of Lewek Kuśnierz's debt of 1730 (pp. 95–96).
I / 6 - Appraisal of Samuel Peschörner's security pledge to the Jew barber-surgeon of Ostrów of 1719 (pp. 3-4).
I / 6 - Collection of the debt of a Jew from Błaszki of 1724 (p. 64).
I / 6 - Jurnament or Jewish oath of 1731 (p. 151).
I / 7 - The case of Salomon Jakubowicz and Moszek Lewkowicz of 1761 (pp. 79–80).
I / 7 - The synagogue in Ostrów borrows from the town treasury in 1776 (p. 285).
I / 7 - A complaint by the synagogue in Ostrów against the soldiers of the national cavalry in 1781 (p. 474).
I / 7 - Confirmation of repayment of Aaron Susman's debt in 1781 (p. 514).
I / 7 - Statement by Heszel Ephraim (1785) (p. 678).
I / 7 - A case between Lewek Leszczeński and Bogumił Galwic in 1787 (p. 714).
I / 8 – A case between Zuzanna Walter and Marek Hersz in 1782 (p. 88).
I / 8 - Certificate of Ber Lewkowicz (1782) (p. 96).
I / 8 - A case between the Jew Mojżesz Złoczewski and Mittman in 1783 (pp. 108–109).
I / 8 - A case between Markusz, a Jew from Kalisz, and Mrs. Kamińska in 1783 (pp. 113–114).
I / 8 - A case between Hersz Boruch and Elżbieta Telker in 1783 (p. 120).
I / 8 - A case between the Jew Hausz Złoczewski and Gotfrid Sonnenberg in 1783 (pp. 139–140).
I / 13 - Elders of the Ostrów Synagogue on the matter of excessive taxes in 1807 (pp. 144–146).
I / 14 - The matter of gifts for the governor in 1785 (pp. 5–7).
I / 15 - Appraisal of the real estate of haberdasher Fiszel in 1783 (p. 63).
I / 18 – Physical examination of the Jew Salomon Szmul in 1784 (p. 16).
I / 18 – Physical examination of the Jew Aaron Hyrsz in 1785 (p. 17).
I / 19 - Dispositions regarding the Jewish cemetery in 1780 (pp. 2-4).
I / 20 – A case between Gottlib Galicz and Abram Tyn in 1787 (pp. 17-18).
I / 20 - The case of the Jew Złoczewski concerning a beating in 1791 (p. 26).
I / 22 - Proclamation regarding appraisals of Jews in 1784 (pp. 41–47).
- Archival history:
- The materials included in the collection were produced and collected by the municipal administration. The municipal archive was in close contact with the administration as an integral part of its functioning. Before World War II, they were part of the Staatsarchiv Posen, and during World War II, the records were dispersed for safeguarding. After the end of World War II, the records entered the legal resources of the successor of the Staatsarchiv Posen, i.e., the State Archives in Poznań.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The town was founded before 1404. Ostrów was a private town belonging to Bogusław Leszczyński, Rafał Leszczyński, Jan Jerzy Przebendowski, Dorota Henrietta and Franciszek Bieliński and the Radziwiłł family. The town owner's chancellery was located in the castle in Przygodzice. All orders were issued at the castle. There was also a municipal office in Ostrów, where town books were kept and the local archives were deposited. In 1793, Ostrów belonged to the Kalisz department in the Odolanów district of Southern Prussia, and from 1807 to the Kalisz department of the Duchy of Warsaw. In 1815, the seat of the county authorities was moved to Ostrów, including the office of the landrat [head of the county], the court and the office of the county treasury. In 1828, a town hall was built, in which the municipal archive was housed.
- Access points: locations:
- Brody
- Ostrów Wielkopolski
- Access points: persons/families:
- Boruch, Hersz
- Ephraim, Heszel
- Fiszel
- Galicz, Gottlib
- Galwic, Bogumił
- Hersz, Marek
- Hyrsz, Aaron
- Jakubowicz, Salomon
- Kuśnierz, Lewek
- Leszczeński, Lewek
- Lewkowicz, Ber
- Lewkowicz, Moszek
- Ostrowski, Marek
- Susman, Aaron
- Szmul, Salomon
- Tyn, Abram
- Walter, Zuzanna
- Złoczewski, Hausz
- Złoczewski, Mojżesz
- System of arrangement:
-
The collection consists of handwritten books - a record book and loose materials - statutes, privileges, documents, minutes, ordinances, extracts from town books. It is arranged as follows:
1. Documents (1 archival unit) 1714 (ref. no. I / 1)
2. Book of ordinances, documents, extracts and copies (1 archival unit) 1620, 1710–1841 (ref. no. I / 2)
3. Cartularies of the ordinances of the town owner (1 archival unit) 1784–1788 (ref. no. I / 3)
4. Books of the town council and county head (3 archival units) 1719–1732 (ref. no. I / 4-I / 6)
5. Books of the town council (10 archival units) 1762–1807 (ref. no. I / 7-I / 16)
6. Extracts from town council books (1 archival unit) 1783–1788 (ref. no. I / 17)
7. Books of the county heads (1 archival unit) 1781–1794 (ref. no. I / 18)
8. Book of castle courts (2 archival units) 1780–1792 (ref. no. I / 19-I / 20)
9. Town accounts (1 archival unit) 1774–1793 (ref. no. I / 21)
10. Regulations and proclamations of the Crown Treasury Commission (1 archival unit) 1779–1796 (ref. no. I / 22)
11. Loose records (3 archival units) 1730–1781 (ref. no. I / 23-I / 25)
- 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/en/strona_glowna
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Mikołaj Wojciechowski, University of Wrocław