Státní okresní archiv Teplice

The beginnings of the State District Archive Teplice date back to 1918, when the town archive in Teplice was founded under the leadership of Prof. Paula Wanie. The archive was first located at the town hall. In 1939, it was moved to the former Jewish ghetto and at the end of the war to the Market Square. After 1945, the town councillors attempted to merge the archive and the museum into one institution and therefore the archive was moved to the Claryov chateau. Due to the rapid increase in material, the space allocated to it was not enough and, in 1954, the district archive was moved to the unmanaged building of the Municipal Museum in Školní Street, pursuant to Government Order 29/54 Coll. After the administrative reform of 1960, the district archives of the abolished district of Bílina and Duchcov were merged with it. In 1962, the fonds of the former district archive from Duchcov were moved to Teplice and the depository was preserved in Bílina until 2003. At present, the archive is still located in Školní Street. Its building underwent extensive reconstruction in the 1990s. 

The archive contains 1,244 archive fonds from the years 1360-2003 equating to 2,685 linear metres, of which 2,067 linear metres have been processed. The fonds accessible to researchers are from the following areas: *Political reports* District authorities, councils, road administration *Financial management* District tax administration, tax offices, tax offices, Josephine and stable cadastre *Self-government until 1945* Municipal and municipal self - government after 1850 and archives of towns and municipalities before 1850 *Bohemia* Guilds and trade communities *National committees* District national committees (Teplice, Bílina, Duchcov) and municipal and local national committees, local administrative commissions *Judicial administration* District Courts, District Prosecutor's Offices, Official Court, Trade Licensing Court, Detention Centers, Youth Education Home *Police and gendarmerie* Gendarmerie departments, gendarmerie stations, State Police Office *Education* Local school councils, nursery schools, main schools, parish schools, general and national schools, Central School Matrices, secondary schools, eight-year and nine-year schools, grammar schools and secondary schools, vocational technical schools, continuing schools, economics and health, , vocational schools *Personal fonds* Personal inheritance of important local industrialists, cultural workers, doctors, musicians, self-government officials, etc. *Enterprises* Power, construction, municipal, and service companies, Renotex, Wika, and others *Financial institutions* Credit unions, savings banks, *Health and social facilities* Department of National Health, District Youth Care, orphanages *Insurance companies* District National Insurance Company *Political and trade union organizations* District Trade Union Council, ROH Committees, Political Parties (KSČ) *National Front Committees* District and local action committees of the National Front, district committees of the National Front *Cooperatives* Cooperatives for production, construction and consumer cooperatives (agricultural cooperatives) *Associations and organisations until 1948* Czech and German student, youth, sports, aviation, support, social, charity, construction, religious, sports and gym clubs, sharpshooting and veterans clubs, cultural and educational, theater, beautifying, reading, singing, music, museums, entertainment, National Union of North Bohemia, Union of Germans in Bohemia *Social organizations after 1948* Youth, women, medical and other (Union of Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship, Union of Freedom Fighters, Czech Tabor Union) *Cultural and educational facilities* Theater, Symphony Orchestra, Houses of Culture, Socialist Academy, JAKomensky Academy *Ecclesiastical institutions* The vicariates, deaneries, parish offices, fraternities, *Nazi fonds* Landrats, Labor Office, Official Court, Labor Court, Police Station, Police Office Teplice, Volkssturm, NSDAP and affiliated organizations, *Collections* Collection of posters, maps and plans, seals and stamps, manuscripts, old prints, photographs