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Goobi
1528/1858
Duchy of Żagań
RJH-0011
RJH
ger
lat
Textual material
good
PL
State Archive of Wroclaw
Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu
pol
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PL 82/12
archival reference number
Księstwo żagańskie
pol
Administrative authority of the Duchy of Żagań
1528
1858
3 linear metres (51 folders)
1. The duke’s relationship with his duchy: charters/privileges: 1616–28.
2. Management of the Duchy – inventories: chancellery and archival, correspondence registers, land and mortgage registers, document recording (item entry) registers, testaments/wills, property/estate purchase and sale contracts, feudatory/liege affairs: 1557–1858.
3. Legal and judicial system: feudal courts [Manngericht], property/estate purchase lists, tax-related matricules: 1528–84.
4. Annex: court regulations, mortgage affairs: 1651–18th century.
Jewish-related items are scarce, appearing in the following units (inter alia):
Ref. no. 26: ‘Grund- und Hypothekenbuch des Saganischen Kreises’, 1410–1856.
Ref. no. 29: ‘Grund- und Hypothekenbuch des Priebusischen Kreises’, 1738–1855.
Ref. no. 26: ‘Grund- und Hypothekenbuch des Naumburgischen Kreises’, 1561–1853.]]>
The materials contained in the fund were produced and collected by the Duchy administration. Before World War 2, the resource formed part of the Staatsarchiv Breslau; during the war, for the sake of protecting them, the files were dispersed and kept in various localities; some were destroyed, including, probably, a portion of Jewish-related items. After World War 2, the files were included in the State Archive of Wroclaw, the legal successor of the former German-owned archive.
The Duchy of Żagań emerged in 1273/1274, after the death of Conrad I, Duke of Głogów. Przemko and Conrad II the Hunchback were the first Żagań dukes. The history of the Duchy is interwoven with that of the Duchy of Głogów [Glogau], both being ruled by the same line of Silesian Piast rulers. In 1472 and 1488, the Duchy was twice sold to princes of Saxony. It was subsequently governed by Ferdinand I, king of Bohemia (1549), Prince Lobkowicz (1646), Courland duke Peter von Biron (1785) and in 1844 became a domain of Princess Dorothea of Courland (Dorothée de Talleyrand-Périgord/von Sagan). Boson, Prince of Balancy, was the last proprietor of Żagań.
Żagań
Przewóz
Financial matters--Mortgage
Real estate
The collection consists of books/registers and unbound items, manuscript and printed.
The collection is available in the reading room of the State Archive of Wroclaw.
A register is available at the archives.
Anna Grużlewska, Leszek Ziątkowski; University of Wroclaw; 2015
Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute