Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)
A Soproni Társaskáptalan Levéltára (Sopron Collegiate Chapter Archives)
The diocesan fund, established in 1808, was managed by the chapter. The accounts and cash books are preserved between 1810 and 1912. — The eighteenth to twentieth century records of the foundations entrusted to the chapter (needy and ill priests, cathedral musicians, the Hungarian and the German xenodochia, the Teachers' Pension Institute, masses, etc.) are kept in a separate collection. Up to 1904 separate accounts were made for each foundation, since that time the foundation office entered them in a common ledger. The accounts of the Gyor Orphans' Home and Foundation are preserved from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. The Testamenta collection contains wills of bishops, canons and other priests and probate records from 1696 to 1940. The capitular archives preserve the records of the former Pápócz chapter, founded in the fourteenth century, and of the St. Adalbert chapter of Gyór Hill, since the provosts were members of the cathedral chapter. Of the records of the capitular estate management the series of account books from 1528 is the most valuable. — The journals of the capitular sessions devoted to economic affairs are preserved from 1840 to 1936. — The central economic office, established in 1840, kept central accounts and it preserved the periodical economic reports of the various estates. — The records of the seigneurial court (eighteenth to nineteenth century) contain the lawsuits of the feudal jurisdiction of the chapter. — Among the economic papers we find separate collections of the eighteenth to nineteenth century estate conscriptions and of the estate maps of the same period. Research is possible from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on weekdays. Dr. Péter BALÁZS A SOPRONI TÁRSASKÁPTALAN LEVÉLTÁRA (SOPRON COLLEGIATE CHAPTER ARCHIVES) 9400 SOPRON, Orsolya tér 4. Archivist: vacant The archives were founded in 1779 as a place or authenticity, but it remained a private repository up to our day.
