Státní okresní archiv Chomutov se sídlem v Kadani

The present archive was created by the merger of the Chomutov and Kadaň District Archives in accordance with the changes in the territorial division in 1960. Its predecessors were the Chomutov District Archives and the Kadaň District Archives. However, the origins of archiving are much older here. The oldest list of documents kept at Chomutov town hall dates back to 1727, in Kadan there is evidence of the newly established archive in the town hall from 1755. Archives in the present sense of the word originated in the districts of Chomutov and Kadaň only on the basis of the government decree of 7 May 1954 as facilities of District People's Committees. In July 1960, the Chomutov and Kadaň district archives were merged into the Chomutov District Archives, based in Kadan, in the building of the former Franciscan monastery (from XIX century till 1960 the premises of the District Court) . In 2002, it became part of the State Regional Archives in Litoměřice.

State District Archive of Chomutov in Kadaň collections contain records from the following areas:

1. political authorities (administration) before 1945 – district (district offices); police and gendarmerie before 1945 and political authorities after 1990 – district office

2. financial authorities (administration) – district (boards of revenue, tax offices); cadastre (1780’s and 1840’s cadastres)

3. judicial authorities – judicial authorities and courts before 1949 (district courts); judicial authorities and courts after 1949 (district courts, local people´s courts); district prosecution offices (after 1949); law offices; district notary´s offices; bodies of execution of a punishment (district court jail)

4. local authorities before 1945 – municipal offices (archives of towns and villages); district (district boards); national boards in 1918; local groups authorities (guilds); and local authorities after 1990 – municipal offices

5. German Nazi administration and organisations 1938-1945 – German political authorities (Landrats, labour offices); German financial authorities ; German judicial authorities; German political organizations and associations (NSDAP, SA, SS – district and local organisations)

6. national committees 1945-1990 – local national committees; district national committees; internment camps and transfer centres

7. schools – school administration (district and local school councils); kindergartens, elementary schools (parish schools, common and national schools, burgess-schools, 8-year and 9-year elementary schools), secondary schools, vocational and trade schools, special schools

8. medical and social establishments

9. health, accident and pension insurance companies and funds

10. political and trade union organisations – district committees of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia; district committees of the National Front; district and local organizations of ROH (trade union)

11. organisations and associations before 1948

12. social organisations after 1948 – units of the National Front (Czechoslovakian Red Cross, Czechoslovakian Fire Protection Union, Czech Union of Physical Education, Czech Hunting Union, Czech Union of Antifascist Fighters, Czech Women Union, Socialist Youth Union, Socialist Academy, Czechoslovakian-Soviet Friendship Union etc.) – district and local organisations

13. cultural institutions – museums and libraries

14. church institutions – parish offices and deaneries

15. personal collections

16. state forests and farms, cooperative organisations – agricultural co-operatives (collective farms), consumer co-operatives state farms

A list of the Archives' collections can be found in Czech online:

http://www.soalitomerice.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/SOUPIS-FONDU.pdf

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 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