Strzelin town archives

Collection

Title (official language):: Depozyt miasta Strzelina Dep. Urkunden Strehlen Rep. 132a

Scope and content:: The collection includes ducal privileges and rights and their confirmations, sale and purchase of movable and immovable goods, rents, granting and sale of goods and rents for the parish, documents of the council and town jury, agreements and agreements, property matters, customs, personnel matters relating to the parish, salt privileges, grants for vicars, guild documents, judiciary matters, wills.

Specifically Jewish-related matters are few, appearing only on the margins of other matters discussed in the documents.

reference number 101 - document dated in Strelen in 1500 – the Jewish Street is mentioned

reference number 104 - document dated in Strelen in 1505 – the Jewish Street is mentioned: Georg Winckler Mayor and the councilors Peter Jandrall, Georg Mehbit, Simon Strach testify that Matcziagk has given ½ Mark annual interest on his house in the Judengasse" (Georg Winckler Bürgermeister und die Ratmenner Peter Jandrall, Georg Mehbit, Simon Strach urkunden, daß Matcziagk verreicht hat ½ Mark jährlichen Zins auf seinem Hause ine der Judengasse und ... "

reference number 118 – document dated Strelen19 April 1519 – “house and garden on the Jewish Street” is mentioned (Haus und Garten in der Judengasse)

reference number 138b – document dated August 23, 1583 – the Jewish Street is mentioned [Judengasse]

Archival history:: On the initiative of the state authorities, the documents stored in the Strzelin town archives were transferred in the second half of the nineteenth century in the form of a deposit to the State Archives in Wrocław and placed in collection Rep. 132a; they were moved out of Breslau/Wrocław during World War II. After the war, the material was taken over by the archival services of East Germany (later the German Democratic Republic); it was transferred back to Wrocław in 1980.

Administrative/biographical history:: There was a settlement before the 13th century, mentioned in 1281 as a castellan stronghold. Town rights were granted by the prince of Świdnica, Bolko I in 1292; more robust development occurred in the 19th century with the expansion of the surrounding quarries and railway transport.

The Jewish community was mentioned in the Middle Ages in a document from 1336. There was a Jewish street in the 15th century, but no information about a cemetery or a synagogue in the Middle Ages. The "de Judaeis non tolerandis" privilege was enforced from the mid-15th century. Resettlement from the 19th century led to up to 165 people in 1880, which allowed for the construction of a synagogue and a cemetery. The synagogue was destroyed during Kristallnacht, and the Jewish community was exterminated during the Holocaust.

Access, restrictions:: The collection is currently accessible in the reading room of the State Archives in Wrocław.

Links to finding aids:: https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/zespol/-/zespol/89564

Yerusha Network member:: The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław

Author of the description:: Leszek Ziątkowski, Marcin Wodziński University of Wrocław, 08-03-2019