Archiv města Telč

The first record of Telč dates to 1207. Since the middle of the 14th century it has been possible to speak of Telč as a town. The town was the center of the estate owned by various aristocratic families, from the 17th and 18th centuries it was the Lichtensteins-Kastelkorns and in the years 1761-1945 it was the Podstatskýs of Lichtenstein. The town of Telč was part of the political districts of Dačice in 1850-1855, and Telč in 1868-1949, 1855-1868, and in 1850-1949 it was part of the judicial district of Telč. Jewish settlement in Telč had been recorded since the first half of the 17th century, later there was a Jewish religious community, which disappeared during the Second World War, when 68 Telč Jews were taken to Terezín and Auschwitz.

At the end of the 19th century, the town council began handing over its documents to the town museum, where a collection of archive material was created containing, among others, estates, various prints, maps, etc. In the early 1950s the museum was subordinated to the cultural department of the Municipal National Committee of Telč. In 1953, the paper documents were separated from the museum, and since 1961 the documents had been handed over to the archives of Telč. Today they are stored in the State District Archives in Jihlava. It was not until 2002-2004 that the fonds was organized and inventoried.