Levéltárismertető és fondjegyzék - Városi Levéltári Füzetek 2/1999 (Győr, 1999)

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Archives of Győr City of County Rights 1. Rákóczi Ferenc street Győr, Hungary 9022 Tel./ fax: /96/312-288, 328-199 Director: József Bana The Archives of Győr City of County Rights stores the documents of the city and the documents of its institutions from the year of 1600 up to the year of 1962. Its area of collecting and its competency corresponds with the maintainer local government. In the case of Győr City the letter-patent issues by Stephen V. In 1271 created the preliminary conditions for estabhshing the city of public lay. The ones settled in the castle got the rights of the citizens of Fehérvár. / Free election of judges, right of holding fairs/ Unfortunately during the 4 year long Turkish reign, the documents were destroyed, so the former patent laws had to be certified with the help of testimony/ testimonies. After advancing the city to the rank of free Royal City, the job of the city chancellery formed earlier, increased greatly because of the extension of the provinces of city administration. It was possibly at that time when the documents belonging to the archives arrived at the one-storied town hall, which was built in 1562. Practically the local and central willingness in connection with the archives could meet in 1846 and as a result of it Károly Streibig won the first independent archivist position. With the person of József Visky- an archivist with professional knowledge - came to the city who would guarantee that he would arrange the disordered material of the archives lucidly, clearly and make it available for different kinds of research. In fact we can say that the Archives works reliably since Visky s taking up his post. The material - guarded by him - was wider than the ones „produced" by different offices. We could find bigger and bigger reference library and seal signet collection in the inventory. Building the new city hall in 1897 meant the moving of the Archives, too, which worked in close connection with it. Ferenc Sefcsik, the leader of the Archives managed to furnish a basis for a public library apart from writings. A map collection also belonged to the 2520 piece book-collection. During the war the Archives were not damaged but the humid, moist air raid shelters, cellars attacked the older documents, records. The city Archives was fused with former Győr-Moson County Archives after introducing the council regime in 1950. The county state archives were assigned functions to the county councils based on the