Amtsgericht (District Court) of Slavonice

Amtsgericht (District Court) of Slavonice 

Amtsgericht (District Court) of Slavonice 

8,06 linear meters 

The fonds consists of files documenting regular activity of a German Amtsgericht (district court) in a borderland district. They are inheritance and guardian files, files of civil and criminal agenda, book of filing registers. The fonds is quite well preserved. The civil agenda is almost complete, mainly the inheritance files. It is possible to find single items relevant to Jewish history – politically motivated crimes, persecution in occupied territory, border crossing (see lists of prisoners on the Gestapo’s order or the secret police). For researching Jewish history attention needs to be paid to property rights issues, mainly inheritance matters. 

The fonds the original registry system was preserved. The fonds is divided as follows: I. Own judicial agenda – books, files on administrative agenda (1938-1940) according to the Reich file numbers, 1941-1945 according to Austrian file numbers, Inheritance court agenda – books, files. The fonds is almost completely sorted (0, 01 linear meter unsorted).