Metadata: Congregation Records 1848-1849
Collection
- Country:
- Hungary
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Hungary, Csongrád County Archives, Szeged
- Holding institution (official language):
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Csongrád Megyei Levéltára, Szeged
- Postal address:
- 6701 Szeged, Pf. 460
- Phone number:
- +36 62 425 199
- Web address:
- http://mnl.gov.hu/mnl/csml/mnl_csml_szeged
- Email:
- csml@mnl.gov.hu
- Reference number:
- IV.B.101.a
- Title:
- Congregation Records 1848-1849
- Title (official language):
- Közgyűlési jegyzőkönyvek 1848-1849
- Creator/accumulator:
- Csanád county
- Date(s):
- 1848/1849
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 0.38 linear metres (5 volumes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The 'Congregation Records 1848-1849' collection is part of the extensive collection of ‘Documents of Csanád District Committee 1848-1849’.
The collection can be divided into two units: the records and the related handbooks.
The entries include submissions to the committee, investigations, notifications, reports, lists of tax assessments and liabilities. In addition, they include orders of emissaries, reports, correspondence with other counties, commands of the Royal Council of Governor-general, reports or orders for the operation of guilds, information on transport (roads, bridges) and various types of inventories. They deal with contracts, promissory notes, debt securities, decisions about debts and collections, cases of trespassing, lawsuits of landlords and tenants of farming leases, service obligations imposed on peasants, issues of insurrection, conscriptions of tenants, the appointment of officials, support for the handicraft trade, regulations and rules regarding guilds, religious affairs, regulations on salt transport along the Maros river, discords and issues of nationalities (Serbian, Romanian) and the immigration of Armenians. The documents were predominantly written in Hungarian.
Jewish-related sources can be found under 93 headings. Scattered Jewish-related documents can also be found among the record entries, in accordance with the daily agenda items discussed at the sessions. The first entry is from 1848 and deals with the case of bankruptcy of Aron Kohn (however, he lived in Stompfa (Pozsony county)) (02. 04. 1848 No 40.). These entries are similar to the others in the collection: they comprise orders imposed on the Jews by the Council of Governor-General or the county, inventories, lists of tax assessments, notifications, reports and petitions submitted by Jewish citizens. The subjects of Jewish-related records include: issues of debts, candles to prisons; oil, clothes and food suppliers, recruitment, uniform supply for soldiers, bankruptcy cases, lease matters and inheritance. Most of the entries address individual cases: Moses Iritz, glassmaker, demanded payment (13. 06. 1848 No 565.), lease matters of Zsigmond Veidenfeld (07 08 1848 No 1131.). The Makó community is an exception, as it appears in the sources several times. It refused to pay the tolerance tax abolished in 1846 (03. 07. 1848 No 744., 02. 12. 1848 No 1893.) and had problems with recruitment (21 08 1848 No 1186., 11 09 1848 No 1451.). The records discuss the cases briefly and present the decisions as well. The records include entries referring to the Jewish population both in the country and in the county. It deals with the inhabitants of Makó, Battonya, and Földeák. Some suppliers appear in several entries: e.g. Fülöp Pulitzer, who was a supplier to the military and town authorities (04 07 1848 No 803., 02 11 1848 No 1846.). The documents were written in Hungarian.
- Archival history:
- The Csanád county archives were established in 1717. The document collection was maintained in the office building of the county seat, Makó. The turbulent past of the county and its territorial transformations (for example, it was merged with Békés and Csanád counties in the 1780s, and Szegvár became the new county seat) affected the placement of the collection. The new collection was stored in the new centre, and some selected old documents were transferred to Szegvár. Csanád County remained in Makó (although the counties were also temporarily transformed in the 19th century). September 1950 marked fundamental changes when Szeged became the new county seat, since Csanád County was merged into Csongrád county. The documents concerning the newly developed territory of the county were transported to Szeged, where they are available today. However, the municipality of Makó seeks to place the former Csanád county documents in its own archives building, and the collection might return to Makó again.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- After its establishment, the Csanád County Commission performed several tasks: setting up, supplying, directing, enlisting of the national guard; management of administrative issues (while the territorial boundaries of the county changed), fulfilling statute labour obligations, settling ethnic affairs (Battonya). The committee meeting kept records and collected the relevant documents, following the administrative method of the noble country.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Iritz, Moses
- Pulitzer, Fülöp
- Veidenfeld, Zsigmond
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters--Debt
- Legal matters
- Military
- System of arrangement:
- The actual cases were noted in the records per sessions. The numbering of the records is continuous in each year. The records are maintained in five volumes.
- Access, restrictions:
- It is likely that this material will be moved to Makó, where it will be unavailable for an undefined period of time.
- Finding aids:
- The indexes, which are available in two volumes, were prepared for the records. They indicate the number of supreme authority decrees of the subject, the places and persons, and the serial number of the records. The records are researchable on the basis of the indexes. However, the relevant characters must be looked through because the record numbers are not grouped by content.
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Szeged
- Author of the description:
- Dr. Tibor Almási and Dr. Erzsébet Mislovics, University of Szeged, 2019