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

Fejér Megyei Levéltár (Fejér County Archives)

After 1945 the social change led to the extinction of numerous organs. Their records (cca 1200 running metres) were taken over to archival custody. Owing to the lack of stack-rooms a large part of this material came into a disadvantageous position. Only the year 1975 has effected a change, when the County Archives settled to a new edifice. This meant also a solution to the placing of the Archives. It was in the same year that the Dunaújváros department has been established, providing storage for about 300 running metres. The collecting interest of the Archives covers the present Fejér county. It is led by the director, the two groups are in charge of the group leaders and the Dunaújváros department in charge of a section leader. The group for scientific treatment is managing and arranging the records of the feudal and the capitalistic periods, keeps up the research service, is responsible for the tasks in general education, special library, collecting interest and publication. The economic and administrative group is in charge of the records of the socialist period, deals with the clients, is responsible for the duplicates of registers, the financial tasks and administration. The archival material totals cca 3000 running metres. * Among the county records the material of the late feudalism is almost complete (1692-1848). Here are the records of the assemblies, officials and law courts of Fejér county. The journals of the nobilitary assembly, its records (Acta politica), the conscriptions of the tax collector contain rich material for the history of the political and economic life of the county. The outstanding collection "Acta iuridica et instrumenta publica" embraces socage (urbarial) records, inquiries on nobility, surveys of boundaries, property conscriptions. Research is helped by the original finding aids. The series shows lacks in certain years, due to the nineteenth century selection. The feudal archival groups are followed by the county records of the national movement of 1848/49, the bourgeois revolution and the fight for freedom. They mirror the political changes, the strengthening and the activity of the national forces, but also the victory of the retrograde political trend and the crushing of the national cause. The non-autonomous county administration after the defeat of the fight for freedom is represented only by fragmentary, but very important records. (On the organization of the offices, the enlisting of soldiers, on economic and political life.) Among the records of jurisdiction those of the redemption of land are the most