hr-004538
is or was holder of: hr-004538-0422
has or had agent name: DADU
buildings: The Sponza Palace (Croatian: Palača Sponza), also called Divona (from dogana or 'customs'), is a 16th-century palace in Dubrovnik, Croatia, built in a mixed Gothic and Renaissance style. It was built between 1516 and 1522, and has served a variety of public functions, including as customs office, treasury, bank, mint and school. The palace became the cultural center of the Republic of Ragusa with the establishment of the Academia dei Concordi, a literary academy, in the 16th century. The palace's atrium served as a trading center and business meeting place. An inscription on an arch testifies to this public function: Fallere nostra venant et falli pondera. Meque pondero cum merces ponderat ipse deus. "Our weights do not permit cheating. When I measure goods, God measures with me" The palace is now home to the city archives. The square on which the palace is located is used for the opening ceremony of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival.
is or was holder of: hr-004538-fond općine dubrovnik
agent has or had location: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/institutions/hr-004538/locations/1
sources: www.dao.hr
type: Institution
has or had agent name: Dubrovnik State Archive
opening hours: Monday to Friday from 8:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday from 8:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. Material intended for use on the same day must be requested no later than 1:30 pm, and material intended for use on Saturdays must be ordered at least a day in advance. Archival material is usually available for consultation on the same day it is requested, and no later than 3 (three) days after the request for the material has been approved.
is or was holder of: hr-004538-fond kotarski sud u dubrovniku
history: Since its early days, Dubrovnik, a medieval city, a commune, and then a republic, paid great attention to the protection of valuable documents. Thanks to old Dubrovnik's respect for the written word, today the State Archive's repositories stretch back nearly a thousand years - to the beginning of the 11th century. Among the most valuable of the archive's collections are those dating back to the time of the Dubrovnik Republic. The oldest original document kept in this collection dates from the year 1022. This is a papal bull of Pope Benedict VIII addressed to the then Archbishop of Dubrovnik, Vital. As a community whose overall development was based not on war but rather on trade, Dubrovnik concluded several agreements on friendship and free trade with similar communes from the wider Adriatic cultural sphere in the 12th and 13th centuries. Along with these agreements, the archives preserve numerous charters of peace and trade with rulers and lords from the near and further Balkan hinterland, with whom Dubrovnik was often in conflict because of their threat to Dubrovnik’s small territory and free trade. The growth in trade indirectly influenced the creation of the Dubrovnik archives. Notably, in 1278, the Dubrovnik authorities decided to establish a communal notary service in order to deal with the increasing number of commercial and other activities, which required written agreements. The Italian Tomasino de Saver was appointed as the first notary public was appointed. In their notary books, Tomasino and his successors diligently recorded trade and sales agreements, money lending certificates, marriage contracts, wills of Dubrovnik aristocrats and commoners; in short, everything that characterised daily life in the city. These notary books today allow us to look to trace and study the daily micro-life of Dubrovnik throughout the past centuries; to find out how certain jobs were performed; what was traded; who married whom; who was rich and who was poor; and much, muc…
general description: The total holdings of the State Archives in Dubrovnik, divided into just over 400 holdings and collections , occupy an area of over eight and a half kilometers, and the most valuable holdings, those of the Dubrovnik Republic, contain over 7,000 bound books and more than 100,000 independent documents . Also kept there are manuscripts and printed books of famous Dubrovnik scholars and writers (Gundulic, Palmotic, Getaldic, Boskovic - to name a few), as well as rich collections of old maps, photographs, postcards, newspapers, magazines and various plans and sketches. The archival holdings of the Jewish Community in Dubrovnik were destroyed during the Second World War and most archival holdings related to the city's Jewish population or how it has been remembered refer to the post-war period. Mrs Radmila Šutalo is working on a PhD thesis that traces the history of Dubrovnik Jews (r.sutalo@gmail.com). One of the most valuable artefacts is probably a school diary of Dubrovnik Jewish Elementary School, which dates back to the end of the 19th century.
name: Državni arhiv u Dubrovniku