Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

Győr-Sopron Megyei 2.sz. Levéltár (Győr-Sopron County Archives (No.2.)

eight volumes of judicial and assembly journals and land registers. The 379 pre-1526 records of the Niczky family and the 431 ones of the Premonstratensian convent deserve mention, etc. The 300 fragments of codexes are singular in the country. The bulk of the Archives is made up of the archival material of the county and city Sopron from the feudal and the capitalistic periods (3036 running metres). The journals of the county nobilitary assemblies are preserved from 1579, the acts pertaining to them from 1628. The most important archival groups are the tax-collectors' (perceptoralis) and the judicial (sedria) records from the feudal period, those of the Lord Lieutenant, the sub-prefect and the Administrative Commission from the capitalistic one. The archival material of Sopron city from the feudal and the capitalistic periods suffered no damage, nor was any significant selection made in it. The archival arrangement was executed according to subjects, the registers made by the mentioned Károly János Oertl and his successors are useful even today. The records of the council, or the mayor, respectively (1903-1949), have remained in the basic number system used in the record management of the city council. Among the records of the higher administrative organs those of the Sopron imperial Police Direction (1850-1866, 20 running metres) are significant. The police direction was competent for several counties of Transdanubia. The communal archival material is considerable even in a national view, totalling 400 running metres. It was gathered in the 1950s the most completely, in order to supply the annihilated source material of the higher and medium organs of county administration, as far as possible. Therefore in the material of some large villages (Bágyogszovát, Kapuvár, Magyarkeresztur, Szil) we omitted the selection and we preserved the ordinances of the higher organs in the course of medium level arrangement. The large majority of the communal material derives from the years between 1930 and 1949, the records of the preceding 60 years are very scarcely represented. The journals of the bodies of representatives are almost completely preserved from the 1880s. The records of the regional administrative organs, as state police, tax offices, forest inspectorates, etc. are also fragmentary, totalling 41 running metres only. Among the judicial organs only the Kapuvár District Court has left remarkable material. Of the institutions the records of the schools are significant, as Sopron was famous for its state and church schools (80 running metres). The most