Rijeka State Archives
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Državni arhiv u Rijeci State Archives Rijeka
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 State Archives building |
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| place | Rijeka Croatia
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| founding | 1926 |
| Website | Državni arhiv u Rijeci |
The Rijeka State Archive (Državni arhiv u Rijeci) is located in the Nikole Hosta 2 Park in the city of Rijeka in Croatia and is one of the leading archives in the country.
history
Since the 15th century, documents have been collected systematically in Rijeka, but this collecting activity was not based on scientific principles until the Regio Archivio di Stato in Fiume was founded , which opened its doors on September 1, 1926. The establishment happened as an Italian foundation, because since the Fiume Treaty of 1924 Rijeka belonged to Italy. The newly created province of Fiume was headed by a prefect appointed by the fascist regime in Rome. It was recognized by a royal decree of December 6, 1928, but only as a branch of the Royal State Archives in Trieste under the name R. Archivio di Stato - Sezione di Fiume . By the end of belonging Fiume or Rijeka to Italy in 1945, the archive remained a Sezione said State Archives. Therefore, in 1933 a first overview of the holdings was made by the archive in Trieste. During the war, the archives were brought to safety in Veneto by means of three evacuations between 1941 and 1944 .
From 1945 to 1947 the archive was run as an independent institution, as Državni Arhiv Rijeka . From February 1948 it was part of the Zagreb State Archives , the Ispostava Državnog Arhiva u Zagrebu , but the facility in Rijeka was run independently again at the end of 1949. Only in July 1949 boxes with archival material returned from Veneto - the restitution process has not yet been completed and the losses are difficult to measure. Files from the years 1918 to 1922 have disappeared, especially those relating to the Fiume company Gabriele D'Annunzios . Above all, there is no stock of 661 busts on the city's economic history , which was still noted in the inventory from 1933. From 1959 to 1993 the archive was called Historijski Arhiv Rijeka , from then until 1997 it was called Povijesni Arhiv Rijeka . In the now independent state of Croatia it was given the status of a state archive and has been called Državni Arhiv u Rijeci ever since .
From 1926 to 1945 the house, with only three permanent employees, concentrated on the area around the Kvarner Bay , around Rijeka itself and the Liburnian parts of Istria, which also included part of the now Slovenian area. With the annexation by Italy during the Second World War , its area of responsibility was extended to northwestern Croatia. The archive therefore includes holdings from 1924 to 1941 that date from the occupation of Italy, then from the period of German occupation from 1941 to 1943, and finally from the period of the Italian Social Republic again under Mussolini , which existed until 1945.
After the war ended in 1945, the house dealt with the archives of all of Istria and the islands of Cres , Lošinj and Krk . With the establishment of an archive in Pazin in 1958, its area of responsibility was reduced again to the aforementioned parts of Istria, but it was extended on the other side to Primorje , the Croatian coastline, and Gorski kotar , and the city of Senj . Changes in the state structures, especially the disappearance of older organizational units, brought extensive archive material into the archive, which increased the holdings tenfold.
Today the house houses over 20 km of shelves of holdings, 6.5 km of which is archive material and 750 archival collections. According to the finding aid, the archive contains 2230 buste . The oldest document is from 1201. The oldest collections include legal and property deeds (Munimenta) that start in 1201. 1423 put the local statutes in place. From 1560 collections of registers began to cover births, marriages and deaths. The older copies were mostly written in Latin or Italian - only a few documents were written in Croatian- Glagolithic script - while German, Hungarian and Croatian dominated in the 19th century; Italian prevailed during the Italian occupation from 1918 to 1943.
Today ten archivists and just as many employees work in the house. The department for archival material is headed by Boris Zakošek, the department for ongoing recordings is headed by Zoran Stanković, the library and the reading room with its 20 seats are headed by Prof. Mladen Urem , and the department for conservation and restoration by Prof. Iva Gobić Vitolović .
Since the archive was founded in 1926, it has been in the same building, in the residence of Archduke Joseph , a relative of the Austrian Emperor and Croatian King Franz Joseph I. After differences with the Emperor, the Archduke acquired a country house from the local patrician Mihovil Androche, which was built at the end of the 17th century. Under the direction of the architect Rafael Culotti from Rijeka, the house was extended and rebuilt in the historicist style until 1895. An English garden was created around the house, from which a botanical garden emerged. In addition to the reading room, a small room for lectures and lectures and an exhibition room were built after 1926.
In 1880 Stefano Rotta discovered one of the two copies of the Istrian Landshed (Razvod, 1548) in the family library; it is now kept in the Rijeka State Archives.
literature
- Rolf Wörsdörfer: The holdings of the Rijeka State Archives on the history of Italy in the 20th century. In particular on the history of the Italian province of Fiume , in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 83 (2003) 445–452. ( online )
Remarks
- ↑ Felice Perroni: Inventario generale delle carte conservate nel R. Archivio di Stato di Trieste e nella Sezione d'Archivio di Stato di Fiume con note storiche-artistiche , Trieste 1933.
- ^ Rolf Wörsdörfer: The holdings of the Rijeka State Archives on the history of Italy in the 20th century. In particular on the history of the Italian province of Fiume , in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 83 (2003) 445–452, here: p. 447.
- ^ Rolf Wörsdörfer: The holdings of the Rijeka State Archives on the history of Italy in the 20th century. In particular on the history of the Italian province of Fiume , in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 83 (2003) 445–452, here: p. 448.