Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni

State Regional Archive in Plzeň (Pilsen)

SOA v Plzni

Address

Sedláčkova 44
Plzeň
Plzeňský kraj
306 12
Czechia

Phone

+420 377 236 263
+420 377 325 732

Email

podatelna@soaplzen.cz
badatelna@soaplzen.cz

Web

http://www.soaplzen.cz/

Mandates/Sources of Authority

State Regional Archive in Plzeň is directly controlled by the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic. The administrative competence of the SOA v Plzni is defined by the territory of the Pilsen and Karlovy Vary Regions. The internal organizational units of SOA v Plzni are the State District Archives Domažlice (based in Horšovský Týn), Cheb , Karlovy Vary , Klatovy , Plzeň-jih(based in Blovice), Plzeň-sever (based in Plasy), Rokycany , Sokolov (based in Jindřichovice) and Tachov .

Archival and Other Holdings

The State Regional Archive in Plzeň preserves the fonds of state administration and self-government higher than district and lower than national levels from the area defined by the current Pilsen and Karlovy Vary regions. This includes the regional authorities from the mid-18th to the second half of the 19th century, the Regional National Committee of Pilsen, as well as regional level fonds in the areas of justice, financial administration, culture, health, education (universities). It also holds the fonds of the occupation administration from 1938-1945 and fonds of social and political organisations, including the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Finally, it possesses material from dozens of historically interesting personalities who had links with the West Bohemian region.

Finding Aids, Guides, and Publication

There is an online archival aid to the fonds and collections of the State Regional Archive of Pilsen that have been professionally processed. This aid can be accessed at:

http://www.inventare.cz/soap-pn

Moreover, digitised registry books are gradually being made available on the [Porta Fontium](www.portafontium.eu database) website.

Finally, archival records throughout the Czech Republic are also searchable in a nationwide database:

https://aplikace.mvcr.cz/archivni-fondy-cr/default.aspx

Opening Times

Monday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday from 8 a.m. 4 p.m.

It is recommended that researchers contact the Archive before their arrival.

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State Police Office in Domažlice
- Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
- COLLECTION.SURV.SOA_Plzen/10107
- English
- 1883-1945
- 8,38 linear meters
- Updated 6 years ago
The fonds contains documents from the activity of the State Police Office in Domažlice. The vast majority of the preserved documents are constituted by associations’ files, but also matters of issuance of passports and emigration and the agenda of refugees from occupied areas inland in the autumn of 1938. Politically important files were not however preserved, these evidently having been destroyed before 1945. For study of Jewish history, it is possible to use in particular register books, this in particular concerning K 6 (List of passports issued, 1938–1939), K 7 (Index to this list, 1938...
Landgericht (Reichs Regional Court) – Kašperské Hory branch
- Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
- COLLECTION.SURV.SOA_Plzen/10134
- English
- 1938-1945
- 10,44 linear meters
- Updated 6 years ago
Archival records in the fonds are an important source for the development of the judicial system and administration of justice in regions which were administratively affiliated in 1939 to the Bavarian Ostmark. For study of Jewish history, it is possible in particular to use call № 346, box № 33 (marital law, 1939–1944), call № 346a, box № 33 (requests for removal of obstacles in marriage, 1939–1943) and also in particular the agenda of marital matters stored under call № R, box № 80–99 (marital matters, divorces etc., 1938–1944), which contain information about oppression and persecution of...
Amtsanwalt (District Prosecutor´s Office) of Stříbro
- Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
- COLLECTION.SURV.SOA_Plzen/10261
- English
- 1937-1944
- 4,16 linear meters
- Updated 6 years ago
Archival records in the fonds are a valuable source relating to development of the German Reich justice system in 1938–1945. For study of Jewish history, it is possible in particular to use files documenting a wide range of cases of destruction and looting of Jewish property in the Stříbro region after having been abandoned by the owners during the autumn of 1938 and spring of 1939 and other forms of persecution of citizens of Jewish origin, this in particular concerning inv. № 16, box № 1–70 (criminal files ref. PLs, 1939).
Landgericht (Reichs Regional Court) of Cheb
- Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
- COLLECTION.SURV.SOA_Plzen/140
- English
- 1931-1945
- 55,20 linear meters
- Updated 6 years ago
The fonds contains documents relating to the judicial, political and economic development of detached regions in West Bohemia in 1938–1945. For study of Jewish history, it is possible in particular to use call № 2005, box № 1 (Organisation of officials, 1939), call № 2008, box № 1 (List of staff status, 1939–1942) and also the personal files of legal representatives (call № eA1 to eZ4, box № 86–91) and notaries (call № fB1 to fT3, box № 91–92), which provide information on racial matters and staffing circumstances in the judicial system in the Sudetenland Reichsgau (Sudeten region). Attenti...
Regierungspräsident (Office of the Governing President) of Karlovy Vary
- Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
- COLLECTION.SURV.SOA_Plzen/35
- English
- 1938-1945
- 258,30 linear meters
- Updated 6 years ago
This is an exceptionally valuable fonds regarding political, economic, social and cultural history of an important part of the Sudetenland Reichsgau (Sudeten Reichs Region) in 1938–1945. For study of Jewish history, it is possible in particular to use the following archival records: box № 1 (Reports by the Gestapo on number of arrested and confiscated property of Jewish associations, 1938), box № 1 (Pogroms on Jews, burning to the ground of synagogues, 1938), box № 7, call № 1103 (Aryan origin of officials, 1938–1943), box № 8, call № 1203 (Employment of Jews in state services, 1939–1944), ...
Amtsanwalt (District Prosecutor´s Office) of Cheb
- Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
- COLLECTION.SURV.SOA_Plzen/46
- English
- 1925-1944
- 7,80 linear meters
- Updated 6 years ago
Archival records in the fonds are a valuable source relating to development of the German Reich justice system in 1938–1945. For study of Jewish history, it is possible in particular to use files documenting a wide range of cases of looting of Jewish property in the Cheb region after having been abandoned by the owners during the autumn of 1938 and spring of 1939, this in particular concerning inv. № 39, box № 3–15 (criminal files ref. PLs, 1939).
Amtsanwalt (District Prosecutor´s Office) of Karlovy Vary
- Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
- COLLECTION.SURV.SOA_Plzen/47
- English
- 1937-1945
- 8,68 linear meters
- Updated 6 years ago
Archival records in the fonds are a valuable source relating to development of the German Reich justice system in 1938–1945. For study of Jewish history, it is possible in particular to use files documenting a wide range of cases of looting of Jewish property in Karlovy Vary after having been abandoned by the owners during the autumn of 1938 and spring of 1939, this in particular concerning inv. № 12, box № 1–7 and inv. № 13, box № 28–34 (criminal files ref. 1 PLs and 2 PLs, 1939).
Liebauthal Textile Works, Fischer and Co., GP, Libavské Údolí
- Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
- COLLECTION.SURV.SOA_Plzeň/11122
- English
- 1938-1948
- 0,3 linear meters
- Updated 6 years ago
The fonds contains documents from the Liebauthal textile factories of Fischer and Co., Libavské Údolí from 1938 to 1950. Since these are documents of the Aryanised company, originally Noë Stross joint-stock company, United Textile Factories in Libavské Údolí and Bělá pod Bezdězem, a large number of documents are related to Jewish history. Matters pertaining to Aryanisation, its circumstances and its consequences are located mainly in part I. of the fonds. These include mainly Aryanisation contracts from 1939, transfers, buy-offs and payouts of shares in connection with the Aryanisation proc...
Agricultural Office of Mariánské Lázně
- Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
- COLLECTION.SURV.SOA_Plzeň/152
- English
- 1933-1945
- 2,04 linear meters
- Updated 6 years ago
The fonds includes archival records resulting from the activities of the Agricultural Office of Mariánské Lázně. The archival records related to the Jewish population or to its property can be found throughout the entire fonds. The most interesting ones may be those stored under inv. No. 18 - An inventory of landed property of Czechs and Jews by districts (as indicated by name, municipality, house number and area) and inv. No. 23 - The consolidation of lands in 1939-1942 (there is, among others, a tentative identification of districts for the purpose of consolidation indicating the possessi...
German Settlement Company – Chief Inspectorate in Stříbro, Trpísty/Čeminy
- Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
- COLLECTION.SURV.SOA_Plzeň/20007
- English
- 1939-1945
- 6,60 linear meters
- Updated 6 years ago
The fonds includes archival records resulting from the activities of the German Settlement Company - The Chief Inspectorate Stříbro. Given the nature of the office, archival records related to the Jewish population and especially to its land property are likely to be found throughout the entire fonds, especially in the inventory units concerning the Chief Administration of Trpísty (the Třebel-Trpísty estate belonged, until 1938, to owners of Jewish origin). However, the confiscated Jewish possessions were undoubtedly managed by other chief administrations within the jurisdiction of the Chie...
Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft (German Settlement Company) – Branch in Karlovy Vary
- Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
- COLLECTION.SURV.SOA_Plzeň/20214
- English
- 1939-1945
- 5,40 linear meters
- Updated 6 years ago
The fonds includes archival records resulting from the activities of the Karlovy Vary branch of the German Settlement Company. The fonds is not inventoried nor arranged. Given the nature of the office one can find archive records related to the Jewish population, and especially to its land property, throughout the entire fonds. The fonds mainly includes official correspondence, reports on the management of farms, accounting records, settlement maps and land sheets and extracts thereof.
Amtsgericht (District Court) of Stod
- Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
- COLLECTION.SURV.SOkA_Plzen-jih/324
- English
- 1938-1945
- 4,66 linear meters
- Updated 6 years ago
The archive fonds contains archival records resulting from the activity of the Amtsgericht (District Court), which operated in the area of the judicial district of Stod during the German occupation, where also inhabitants of Jewish lived. Especially files with call No. EhR of the Heritage court, writings with call No. HRA and HRB of the Commercial register can be recommended for further inspection. It can be presumed that the Jewish-related matters could also be found in files with others call numbers. Searching can be simplified by preserved lists of names and registers kept for the indivi...