Státní okresní archiv Klatovy

The beginnings of the establishment of the State District Archives Klatovy can be dated back to 1954, when according to Government Decree No. 29/1954 Coll. and according to subsequent implementing regulations issued by the Minister of the Interior, district archives were established in Klatovy, Sušice and Horažďovice as professional facilities of the local district national committees, with territorial competence given by Government Regulation No. 3/1949 Coll.

In the framework of the administrative reorganization (Act No. 36/1960 Coll.), from 1 July 1960, the aforementioned archives were administratively merged into a larger whole - the District Archive of Klatovy.

In connection with the cancellation of district offices, in accordance with Act no. No. 320/2002 Coll., the District Archives became the State District Archives of Klatovy as of 1 August 2002, an internal organizational unit of the State Regional Archives in Pilsen; this classification within the network of archives was confirmed by Act No. 499/2004 Coll.

The State District Archives Klatovy primarily store:

• political administration fonds, especially district political administration after 1850 (district authorities, district administrative commissions, district councils, etc.)
• financial administration fonds, especially district financial administration after 1850 (e.g. tax, tax and customs offices)
• municipal self-government fonds (archives of towns and municipalities) and special-interest fonds (e.g. guilds, trade associations, professional organisations)
• fonds of national committees (district, city and local national committees) and their facilities (e.g. district commission of folk control, folk control committees, district agricultural administration, fire brigades, national committee premises)
• judicial administration fonds (district courts, official courts, district prosecution offices, public and private notaries, etc.)
• fonds of schools and school administration (various types of schools, district, district and local school councils, SRPŠ)
• fonds of financial institutions (e.g. credit unions, savings banks)
• fonds of health facilities (hospitals, children's homes, educational institutions, etc.)
• fonds of political and trade unions (political parties, ROH, district and local committees of NF etc.)
• fonds of cooperative organisations (e.g. JZD)
• fonds of other organisations and associations (Sokol, workers' physical unity, Czech Physical Education Union, volunteer fire brigades, various cultural, interest, military, teacher, student, religious, artistic, educational, social, savings, etc. social organisations after r. 1948, etc.)
• fonds of cultural and scientific institutions (e.g. libraries, galleries, theaters, cinemas, children's and youth houses)
• fonds of ecclesiastical institutions (mainly parishes, deaneries, vicariate offices)

There is an online archival aid to the fonds and collections of SOkA Klatovy that have been professionally processed. This aid can be accessed at:

http://www.inventare.cz/soap-kt

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

https://aplikace.mvcr.cz/archivni-fondy-cr/default.aspx