Metadata: Superintendenture in Legnica
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives in Wrocław, Legnica branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu, Oddział w Legnicy
- Postal address:
- al. Marszałka J. Piłsudskiego 1, 59-220 Legnica
- Phone number:
- +48 76 8563478
- Web address:
- https://www.ap.wroc.pl/legnica/kontakt
- Email:
- legnica@ap.wroc.pl
- Reference number:
- 85/18
- Title:
- Superintendenture in Legnica
- Title (official language):
- Superintendentura w Legnicy – Superintendentur in Liegnitz
- Creator/accumulator:
- Church administration authorities
- Date(s):
- 1599/1945
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 6.4 linear metres (306 folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection consists of materials collected by the church administration in part of the former Duchy of Legnice, and later in Legnica county and town. There are few Jewish-related documents in this collection. They relate to general statistics and reports on the church and school situation in the Legnica district.
- Archival history:
- The materials included in the collection were produced and collected by the administration of the Lutheran Church, mainly after its recognition by the Prussian state authorities after 1742, though in the case of Legnica the records also go back to the times of Piast and Habsburg rule. After the World War II, the records were included in the resources of the State Archives in Wrocław, Legnica branch.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Superintendent comes from the Latin the word "superintendens" (controller) and refers to the supervisory office in the German Reformed Church. The superintendent headed an ecclesiastical district analogous to a Catholic diocese or deanery. In the case of Silesia since the times of Frederick II, they have covered the area of one or two counties. This body was headed by a church council, which appointed a superintendent after consulting pastors. The superintendenture’s higher authority was the Evangelical Consistory for Silesia Province.
The superintendent and the office subordinate to him were responsible for 1. pastoral and administrative matters, 2. maintaining order and religious peace in districts, 3. implementing the orders of the consistory, 4. participating in and chairing the election of parish priests and other officials and their installation into their office, 5. visiting Protestant parishes, 6. problems of mixed marriages, 7. supervision of charity institutions, social welfare institutions, various funds for the clergy (e. g. widows), 8. educational matters.
- Access points: locations:
- Legnica
- System of arrangement:
-
The collection consists of books and loose handwritten and printed materials. It is arranged into groups as follows:
ref. no. 1-10 – superintendenture matters 1627-1922;
ref. no.11-72 – school and church matters 1599-1914;
ref. no.73-79 – general matters 1813-1907;
ref. no.80-94 – matters of upbringing, ethics and others 1645-1944;
ref. no.95-179 – synodal matters 1814-1936;
ref. no.180-186 – diocesan conferences 1849-1901;
ref. no.187-208 – clergy and church service 1669-1926;
ref. no.209-216 – fees, church contributions, payroll funds 1870-1925;
ref. no.217-255 – parish property and financial matters 1708-1945;
ref. no.256-281 – foundations, bequests, association and mission matters 1643-1929;
ref. no.282-292 – statistics and reports 1785-1935;
ref. no.293-306 - circulars 1754-1909.
- Finding aids:
-
A printed inventory is available in the archive.
An online finding aid is also available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Leszek Ziątkowski, University of Wrocław, 2018