Státní okresní archiv Jablonec nad Nisou

In 2002, SOkA Jablonec nad Nisou became an internal organisational unit of SOA v Litoměřice.

The archival wealth of SOkA Jablonec nad Nisou, which originated in the territory of the German-speaking region of Jablonec nad Tanvald, was enriched with documents from the area of ​​Železný Brod, a predominantly Czech-speaking region.

At present, SOkA Jablonec nad Nisou manages a total of 1,200 fonds which total approximately 2,150 linear metres.

Some of the Archive's most important fonds include:

Political reports

• District Office Jablonec nad Nisou I 1855 - 1938 (1949) / 74.01 linear metres
• District Office Železný Brod 1855 - 1868 / 7.70 linear metres
• Landrat Jablonec nad Nisou 1938 - 1945 / 25.08 linear metres
• District National Committee Jablonec nad Nisou 1945 - 1990 (1997) / 295.34 linear metres
• District National Committee Semily, expositura Železný Brod 1945 - 1948 / 11.79 linear metres
• District Office Jablonec nad Nisou II (1976) 1990 -2000 / 8.20 linear metres
• District Court Železný Brod 1850 - 1950 / 95.90 linear metres
• District Court Jablonec nad Nisou 1849 - 1971 / 90.62 linear metres
• District Court Tanvald 1850 - 1949 (1950 ) / 51.22 linear metres
• Official court Jablonec nad Nisou 1938 - 1945 / 35.88 linear metres
• Official court Tanvald 1938 - 1945 / 18.41 linear metres
• District Prosecutor's Office Jablonec nad Nisou 1955 - 1973 / 5.10 linear metres
• Detention Centers 1945 - 1951 / 14.87 linear metres
• Census 1921 / 14.76 linear metres
• Museum of Glass and Jewellery Jablonec nad Nisou 1945 - 1988 / 7.17 linear metres
• District Service of the State Statistical Office Jablonec nad Nisou 1946 - 2001 / 5.15 linear metres

Autonomy

• District council Jablonec nad Nisou 1865 - 1928 / 20.33 linear metres
• District council Tanvald 1865 - 1928 / 1.75 linear metres
• District council Železný Brod 1864 - 1935 / 13.87 linear metres
• City archive Jablonec nad Nisou 1716 - 1945 / 162.67 linear metres
• City archive Železný Brod 1582 - 1945 / 41.01 linear metres
• City archive Smržovka 1760 - 1945 / 28.00 linear metres
• City archive Rychnov u Jablonce nad Nisou 1851 - 1953 / 5.55 linear metres
• Tanvald City Archive 1855 - 1945 (1948) / 3.68 linear metres
• Municipal National Committee Jablonec nad Nisou 1945 - 1990 / 86.05 linear metres

Churches

• Dean's office of the Roman Catholic Church in Jablonec nad Nisou 1692 - 1990 / 6.79 linear metres
• Parish office of the Roman Catholic Church in Šumburk 1756 - 1934 / 0.15 linear metres
• Old Catholic community for Jablonec nad Nisou and surroundings 1907 - 1936/ 0.12 linear metres

Education

• State Technical School of Applied Arts Jablonec nad Nisou 1871 - 1945 / 3.90 linear metres
• Secondary Technical School of Jablonec nad Nisou 1945 - 1977 / 1.38 linear metres
• Technical Glass School Železný Brod 1920 - 1962/ 9.31 linear metres

Political parties

• KSČ - district committee Jablonec nad Nisou 1945 - 1989 / 42.00 linear metres

Associations

• Trade and Museum Association Jablonec nad Nisou 1865 - 1945 / 2.50 linear metres
• Sharpshoots Jablonec nad Nisou 1869 - 1910 / 0.12 linear metres
• Czech Beseda Jablonec nad Nisou 1871 - 1892 / 0.12 linear metres
• Sokol Železný Brod 1862 - 1950 / 8.50 linear metres
• Fire District Palacký, Brázdova č.51 Železný Brod 1887 - 1957 / 4.50 linear metres
• Regional History Committee Železný Brod 1948 - 1954 / 1.75 linear metres
• Memorial books Pantheon Malá Skála 1831 - 1935 / 0.80 linear metres
• Memorial books of the restaurant U kalicha Besedice 1914 - 1957 / 0.24 linear metres
• Leutelt Society Jablonec nad Nisou 1923 - 1924 / 0.12 linear metres

Personal fonds

• Kittel - family estate Kokonín 1664 - 1875 / 0.12 linear metres
• Schwann - family estate Jablonec nad Nisou 1762 - 1894 / 0.36 linear metres
• Staffen Josef - personal estate Smržovka 1837 - 1850/ 0.12 linear metres
• Staffen Celestýn - personal estate Smržovka 1839 - 1868 / 0.24 linear metres
• Fischer Karl Richard, Dr. - personal estate Jablonec nad Nisou 1871 - 1934 / 3.76 linear metres
• Meissner Josef - personal estate Smržovka 1878 - 1970 / 9.16 linear metres
• Kwaysserová Marie - personal estate Smržovka 1880 - 1899 / 0.12 linear metres
• Klante Margarete, Dr. - personal estate Jablonec nad Nisou 1888 - 1945 / 0.48 linear metres
• Vanicek Vilem, Ing. - personal estate Navarov 1900 - 1951 / 0.57 linear metres
• Leutelt Gustav - personal estate Josefuv Dul 1900 - 1940 / 0.12 linear metres
• Proud P. Jan Nepomuk Josef - personal estate Josefuv Dul 1903 - 1940 / 0.12 linear metres
• Sochor Frantisek - personal estate Zelezny Brod 1910 - 1981 / 1.80 linear metres
• Vladimír Mikolášek - personal estate Železný Brod 1918 - 1997 / 9.34 linear metres
• Hübner Alfréd - personal estate Huť 1915 - 1997 / 5.40 linear metres
• Vorel Josef - personal estate Jablonec nad Nisou 1928 - 1988 / 0.48 linear metres

Specialised fonds for economic history

• Guild of drapers Železný Brod 1666 - 1861 / 0.41 linear metres
• Guild of bakers, millers and gingerbread makers Železný Brod 1707 - 1861 / 0.45 linear metres
• Guild of blacksmiths, wheelwrights and locksmiths Železný Brod 1707 - 1861/ 0.37 linear metres
• Pojizersky industrial and export institute Železný Brod 1922 - 1949 / 5.16 linear metres
• District work of housework for glass production Jablonec nad Nisou 1923 - 1938 / 0.59 linear metres
• Expert group of exporters of Jablonec goods Jablonec nad Nisou 1945 - 1948 / 0.46 linear metres
• Economic group of retail Jablonec nad Nisou 1945 - 1950 / 1.72 linear metres

Library

The library of SOkA Jablonec nad Nisou consists mainly of domestic and foreign literature in the field of archival science, history and auxiliary historical sciences. The library collection also contains publications documenting the past and present of the Jablonec region and the history of Czech - German relations. It contains 11,000 titles registered in the Clavius ​​database (including periodicals). It also contains the historical book collection of the original Municipal Museum and Archive in Železný Brod, and part of the book collection of the former State Archive in Jablonec nad Nisou.

The Archival VadeMeCum web application enables researchers to view the published, digitised archival documentation and search the fonds and collections of the State Regional Archives Litoměřice as well as its State District Archives (including SOkA Jablonec nad Nisou) in the Ústí and Liberec regions in northern Bohemia. The portal is searchable in Czech:

http://matriky.soalitomerice.cz/vademecum/

Archival records throughout the Czech Republic are also searchable in a nationwide archives database:

http://aplikace.mvcr.cz/archivni-fondy-cr/default.aspx?lang=en