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

Heves Megyei Levéltár (Heves County Archives)

The special library of the Archives is a scientific reference library, based on the libraries of the former municipal archives. It contains many works on administration, statute books, collections of decrees, but also encyclopaedias and statistical publications. The collecting interest of the Archives covered of old and covers the locally published works on local history and the local press. The library totals 4500 volumes of books, 1000 volumes of periodicals. Zoltán UJLAKY section leader HEVES MEGYEI LEVÉLTÁR (HEVES COUNTY ARCHIVES) 3301 EGER, Kossuth Lajos u. 9. (Pf. 76.) Tel. 13-00/159 and 258 Director: Béla KOVÁCS The archives (archivum seu conservatorium) of the legally united counties Heves and Exterior Szolnok (the actual Szolnok County) was situated in the county seat of the county occupied by the Turks, the castle Fülek, entrusted to the notary, in the 1620s. This material was annihilated in the siege of the castle in 1682. Later the records have been accumulated to several chests again and preserved in the Franciscan church at Gyöngyös. Finally the archives were transferred to Eger, to the second floor of the new county hall in about 1768. In 1876 the statute No. 33 of 1876 regulated the area of the counties; Exterior Szolnok area was separated from the county, hence the archives preserved the material of Heves county only. In the 1760s the registration of the records of Heves county was begun and the actual archival structure, based on the principle of chronology, introduced. It was at this time that scribes were employed in the archives. From 1791 a self-standing archivist was named, bound to take over the records and journals yearly from the office of the notary and to register them according to the established archival order. In 1831 the county issued an instruction similar to to-day's administrative regulations on the activity of its officials, hence the archival indices were drafted in Hungarian. In 1845 the notarial office introduced registration. So the board dealing with the affairs created its own system of record management and the archives took them over in the structure used at filing.