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

Heves Megyei Levéltár (Heves County Archives)

second half of the nineteenth century essentially, their history may be reconstructed, however, by the charters and the records of county administration, even in the remote times. Of the specialized organs of state administration the Eger Inland Revenue Office, the Land Survey Directorate, the Civil Engineering Office and the County Inspectorate of Schools have left considerable archival material. Among the institutes the records of the Eger Archiépiscopal Academy of Law, founded in 1740, and those of the first Teachers' Training Institute in Hungarian language, founded in 1828, are in archival custody. Both furnish valuable data to the cultural history of eighteenth-nineteenth century Hungary. Among the schools the Eger Girls' Public School of Mary Ward's Nuns, the Eger Cistercians' Public School, the Eger István Dobó Public School have left valuable papers. The thirteenth to nineteenth century papers of the Eger guilds are often looked for, since research may find valuable data for this form of industrial organization, still typical of early nineteenth century Hungary. The spiritual workshops of this time, of the period of national revival, the casinoes and the various religious associations have bequeathed important material to the Archives as well. The economic archives of the Eger archbishopric (taken over as a perpetual deposit) and the archives of the Eger Chapter as a place of authenticity furnish valuable data for the economic, social and cultural history of about one fifth of the country from the early feudalism to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The development of the county in the periods of capitalism and socialism is illustrated by the records of enterprises, besides those of county administration. The manuscript maps extant from the middle of the eighteenth century are preserved in a collection, showing the changes in the branches of production and the network of settlements in the county. Notable records describe the county events of the 1919 Hungarian Councils' Republic and the post-1945 organs of popular power, the National Commissions, Land Claimants' Commissions and Cultural Commissions. The records of the organs of socialist local administration, the councils are in archival custody up to 1964. Research may use finding aids added to the archival material, going into the details of the smallest stack-room units. There are lists of pieces to the material of the boroughs Eger and Gyöngyös and also to the charters prior to 1526.