The State District Archive Karlovy Vary is gradually registering and cataloguing its collections on electronic databases. For digitised documents, it is possible to view the archival material in high resolution comfortably at the following site: http://digi.archives.cz/ The database"Archive Groups in the Czech Republi", administered by the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic, also provides basic information on fonds and collections stored in archives throughout the Czech Republic. The web application is available in English: https://aplikace.mvcr.cz/archivni-fondy-cr/default.aspx?lang=en
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The State District Archive Karlovy Vary primarily stores: • political administration fonds, especially district political administration after 1850 (district offices of Karlovy Vary, Bochov, Jáchymov, Nejdek, Teplá, Žlutice , 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, especially AM Abertamy, Becov nad Teplou, Bochov, Bozov, Bozov Dar, Doupov, Horni Blatna, Chyse, Jachymov, Karlovy Vary, Nejdek, Ostrov, Tepla, Touzim, Zlutice, and archives of municipalities) and guilds • fonds of national committees (ONV Jáchymov, Karlovy Vary, Nejdek, Tepla, Touzim and Zlutice, MNV Jachymov, Karlovy Vary, Nejdek, Ostrov, Tepla, Touzim and Zlutice and local national committees) and their facilities (e.g. district commission of folk control, committees) folk inspections, District Agricultural Administration, fire brigades, national committees) • judicial administration fonds (district courts Bečov nad Teplou, Bochov, Doupov, Horni Blatna, Jachymov, Karlovy Vary, Nejdek, Tepla, Touzim and Zlutice , official courts, district prosecutors, public and private notaries, etc.) • fonds of schools and school administration (various types of schools, 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 union organizations - political parties, especially KSČ (OV Karlovy Vary, OV Toužim, MV Karlovy Vary), ROH, district and local committees of the NF, especially OV NF Karlovy Vary, as well as the District Union Council of Karlovy Vary, SSM –OV Karlovy Vary and others • 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, special interest, military, teacher, student, religious, artistic, educational, social groups etc., social organizations after r. 1948 etc., e.g. ČSTV - OV Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovak Red Cross - OV Karlovy Vary, Association of Firefighters Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia Karlovy Vary, Union of Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship OV Karlovy Vary, Sharpshoots Jachymov, Male Choir Bečov nad Teplou, Catholic Association of Journeymen Karlovy Vary-Rybáře, Chyše Beautification Association, Union of Liberated Political Prisoners - local branch Teplá, District Hunting Association Karlovy Vary) • 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) • personal and family fonds, e.g. Karell Viktor, Kühnl Josef, Leinbachova Anna, Ludwig Karl, Mannl Rudolf, Labitz Family Archive, Stránský Rudolf, Zeischka Alfred, Jáchymovský Vladislav and others.
The Karlovy Vary District Archive was established on the basis of the Government Decree No. 29 in 1954 and became a professional facility of the ONV Karlovy Vary. Gradually, the town registries of Abertam, Bečov nad Teplou, Bochov, Doupov, Jáchymov, Nejdek, Ostrov and Žlutice were transferred to it, as well as fonds from the former political districts of Nejdek (until 1949) and Jáchymov (until 1951). In 1960, the district archive of Toužim ceased to exist and the fonds of the former political districts of Teplá and Žlutice that had been in its care were transferred to the Karlovy Vary District Archive. In 1971–1972, the district archive was moved to the former primary school in Rybáře, where it has been located in very cramped conditions to this day. A new archive building is planned for the future.
Státní okresní archiv Karlovy Vary