Amtsgericht (District Court) of Vrchlabí
Extent and Medium
25,93 linear meters
Acquisition
There is a finding aid for the fonds from 1971, but the current state of the fonds no longer corresponds to it. This is why a new arrangement was set up for the fonds and a new finding aid was produced in 2011–2012. There was no appraisal processing of archival material.
Scope and Content
The archival fonds of the Amtsgericht (district court) in Vrchlabí contains judicial administration records and includes the following relevant sources: the confiscation of Jewish property – general matters from 1939–1944, appendices from 1939–1943 (Box 1); a list of forced administrators in the jurisdiction of the Amtsgericht in Vrchlabí (Box 5), Jewish legal advisers, 1939–1943 (Box 25), care of property in absentia (Box 116), instructions for working meetings, circulars (including instructions for the handling of Jewish bank accounts, a list of Jews from 1941, instructions for the handling of property owned by enemies of the state), 1939–1944 (Box 151), the recording of the property of Czechs and Jews (a list only for Benecko), 1941 (Box 175), and the securing of Jewish property – specifically for the years 1941–1942 (Box 175).
System of Arrangement
The archival fonds of the Amtsgericht (district court) in Vrchlabí is arranged as follows: A) Registry aids – a) Civil court, b) Criminal court, c) Labour court. B) Files - a) Presidium files, b) Civil files, c) Criminal files, d) Debt relief office for homesteads, e) Court for handling inheritance estate matters, f) Labour court, g) Land book matters.
Finding Aids
VAŇKOVÁ V., Úřední soud Vrchlabí (1897) 1938 – 1945(1946). Prozatímní inventární seznam, 2012, 51 s., ev. č. 459.
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
- Vrchlabí