Metadata: Lwówek Śląski town archives
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives in Wroclaw
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu
- Postal address:
- ul. Pomorska 2 50-215 Wrocław
- Phone number:
- 4871 3288101
- Web address:
- http://www.ap.wroc.pl/
- Email:
- sekretariat@ap.wroc.pl
- Reference number:
- 82/1040
- Title:
- Lwówek Śląski town archives
- Title (official language):
- Depozyt miasta Lwówka Śląskiego Depositum der. Stadt Löwenberg (Rep. 132a)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administrative authorities of Łwówek Śląski
- Date(s):
- 1317/1569
- Language:
- Latin
- German
- Extent:
- 407 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The documents in this collection were originally deposited in the archives in Lwówek and concern various municipal matters without any clear order. There are no archival units devoted entirely or even in large part to the Jewish community. Single documents regarding Jews living in Lwówek can be found in documentation relating commercial matters, as well as to the purchase and rental of real estate, including:
Ref. no. 1: Documents / 1317-1592 / Records of purchase and sale and their confirmations, donations of rent and real estate, wills, mandates and orders of secular and clergy authorities, certificates of earlier documents, cases regarding the development of trade, hospitality, town privileges and their confirmations, documents of legal births, bonds and debts, court judgments, disputed property and border matters, abolition of the authority of the starosta in Lwówek and in Lwówek district, court cases.
Ref. no. 2: Books / first half of the 14th century - 1540 / Book of land law and the town register “Stadtbuch”.
- Archival history:
- On the initiative of the state authorities, the materials stored in the municipal archives in Lwówek Śląski were transferred in the second half of the In the nineteenth century in the form of a deposit to the State Archives in Wrocław and placed in collection Rep. 132a. They were transported out of Wrocław during World War II. After the war, they were taken over by the archival services of East Germany (later the German Democratic Republic). They were returned to Wrocław in 1980.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Łwówek Śląski was one of the first Silesian towns established under the Magdeburg Law (1217). It was an important center of gold and silver mining and later a center of cloth and linen production. During the Thirty Years' War, it suffered major damage. There was reconstruction and redevelopment, particularly intensive development of the town in the 18th century. Beginning in 1885, there was a railway connection with Gryfów and a slow industrialization. Significant damage and population exchanges occurred during World War II. Regarding Jews in the town in the Middle Ages, “de judaeis non tolerandis" was imposed from the 15th century. There was re-settlement in the 19th century, but the local community remained small - in 1890 it was 31; a synagogue was probably organized in rented rooms, and there was a cemetery.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is made up of documents and archival volumes.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is currently accessible in the reading room of the State Archives in Wrocław.
- Finding aids:
- A printed inventory is available in the archive.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/zespol/-/zespol/89544
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Leszek Ziątkowski, Marcin Wodzinski University of Wrocław, 08-10-2018
