Metadata: County Office of Kościan
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Leszno
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe w Lesznie
- Postal address:
- ul. Ludwika Solskiego 71, 64-100 Leszno
- Phone number:
- +48 65 526 97 19
- Email:
- info@archiwum.leszno.pl
- Reference number:
- 34/2/0
- Title:
- County Office of Kościan
- Title (official language):
- Starostwo powiatowe w Kościanie
- Creator/accumulator:
- County Office of Kościan
- Date(s):
- 1813/1939
- Date note:
- [1813] 1919/1939
- Language:
- German
- Polish
- Extent:
- 7.5 metres, 546 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains records showing the organisation of the county authorities in Kościan: matters of the representation of the County Office, regulations, inspections, administrative division, budget and economic matters, consular matters, elections, national and religious matters, associations, unions, passport matters, police matters, support for the poor, establishments care, liquidation of German property, division of estates, statistics etc. The collection includes a small number of Jewish-related records, but the archival units are extensive:
[Nationality statistics - mainly concerning the German minority], 1934–1938 (reference number 34/2/0/3/108) - the statistics also provide information on the number of people living in the Kościan district and their ethnic background, including the Jewish population.
[Concerning religious matters/churches/cemeteries, etc.], 1931–1931 (ref. no. 34/2/0/3/110) - information on various religious matters, including issues relating to the Jewish population and its number in towns of the Kościan district.
[Jüdische Korporationssachen], 1869–1924 (ref. no. 34/2/0/3/114) - documentation on various Jewish communities, including religious fraternities and communal institutions, in the Kościan district. It mainly covers organisational and economic matters.
[Jüdische Korporationssachen], 1882–1921 (ref. no. 34/2/0/3/115) - continuation of the previous unit, documentation on various Jewish communities in Kościan county, mainly concerning organisational and economic matters.
[Jewish religious communities], 1932–1932 (ref. no. 34/2/0/3/116) - records relating to Jewish organisation, guilds and brotherhoods in Kościan county which were taken over by the Jewish community in Leszno, e.g., documents of the Jewish communities in Kościan, Jutrosin, Wschów, Bojanów, Krobi, Kobylin, Wolsztyn etc.
[Jewish religious communities], 1933–1933 (ref. no. 34/2/0/3/117) - records relating to Jewish communities in Kościan county which were taken over by the Jewish community in Leszno as a result of the dissolution of organisational structures, e.g. documentation of the Jewish community in Czempiń, Rawicz, Rakoniewice, Borek etc.
- Archival history:
- The documentation was stored in the office of the landrat (head of the county), which existed in Kościan from 1815. Pursuant to the ordinance of 1919, a County Office was established in Kościan, and the Prussian documentation was merged into its archive. After the end of World War II, some of the materials of the county authorities in Kościan were sent to the State Archives in Poznań (documents produced during the Prussian rule) and some were sent to the State Archives in Leszno (documents produced in the interwar period).
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The county office in Kościan began to function in 1919 under the regulation of the Commissariat of the Supreme People's Council of 16 January 1919 (the People's Council Weekly Journal No. 1/1919) on the takeover of administration by Poles. The legal basis for the activities of county heads was finally established by the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 17 March 1921, and then by the Regulation of the President of the Republic of Poland on the organisation and scope of activities of general administration authorities of 19 January 1928. The internal rules of county heads functioning and the organisation of their office were established by the Regulation of the Minister of the Interior of on 30 June 1930.
Fundamental organisational changes related to the activity of county heads were introduced by the ordinance of 1932 on the division of the authorities into consolidated and non-consolidated. The county head was the executive body of the county office. The county head was a representative of the government and the head of general administration in the county. His scope of activity covered all matters of state administration in the county, as long as they were not part of the competence of other authorities. Pursuant to the ordinance of the Council of Ministers of 7 January 1932, Śmigiel county, which was incorporated into Kościan county, was dissolved.
- System of arrangement:
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The collection comprises the following sub-series:
1. General Department, 1840–1939 (ref. no. 34/2/0 / 1–34 / 2/0/1/14)
2. Organisational Office, 1813–1938 (ref. no. 34/2/0/2 / 15–34 / 2/0/2/71)
3. Security Department, 1824–1939 (ref. no. 34/2/0/3 / 72–34 / 2/0/3/195 and 34/2/0/3 / 475–34 / 2/0/3/523)
4. Administrative Office, 1830–1941 (ref. no. 34/2/0/4/4 / 196–34 / 2/0/4/324 and 34/2/0/4/521)
5. Military Department, 1868–1939 (ref. no. 34/2/0/5 / 325–34 / 2/0/5/337)
6. Department of Social Welfare, 1816-1938 (34/2/0/6 / 338–34 / 2/0/6/379)
7. Sanitary Office, 1818–1939 (ref. no. 34/2/0/7 / 380–34 / 2/0/7/402)
8. Veterinary Office, 1816-1937 (ref. no. 34/2/0/8 / 403–34 / 2/0/8/413)
9. Forest Protection Department, 1894–1939 (ref. no. 34/2/0/9 / 414–34 / 2/0/9/442)
10. Department of Agriculture and Agricultural Reforms, 1867–1939 (ref. no. 34/2/0/10 / 443–34 / 2/0/10/474).
- Finding aids:
- A printed inventory is available in the Archive.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Mikołaj Wojciechowski, Taube Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wrocław