Amtsgericht (District Court) of Úštěk
Extent and Medium
12,00 linear meters
Acquisition
The fonds of the Amtsgericht (district court) were stored at the court building in Úštěk, from whence part of it was transferred to the State Archives in Litoměřice in 1953. In 1960 the court in Úštěk was closed and its documents were moved to the registry office of the District Court in Litoměřice. In 1960 and 1967, some of these files were again transferred to the state archives and the fonds was then inventoried in 1968. The fonds was handed over to the district archives in 1979. Some of the documents however remained at the court's registry office, coming to the district archives as part of appraisal proceedings in 1997-2013.
Scope and Content
The archival fonds comprises documents resulting from the activities of the court operating in the Úštěk Judicial District in 1938-1945. In the fonds's inventory we find reference to the Jewish matters only under inv. No. 13 – Jewish debts 1940-1942. Jewish-related documents can also be founded in the unarranged part of the fonds in the collection of deeds for the land books, which also contains documents of transfers of property originally belonging to Jewish owners (private and legal persons).
System of Arrangement
The official books were not preserved at all, while the registry finding aids only in fragments. The court files are stored by original system in the following groups: IV – court files, V – debt service office (served the districts of the Amtsgerichts in Úštěk and in Štětí), VI – inheritance court.
Finding Aids
JANOUŠEK P., Úřední soud Úštěk 1938 - 1945, Inventář, 1968, 28 s., ev. č. 58.
Process Info
This archival description was created by the Jewish Museum in Prague in the framework of the cooperation between EHRI and the Yerusha project.
Places
- Úštěk