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

Komárom Megyei Levéltár (Komárom County Archives)

in some parts needs restoration, though much of it has been restored in the last years. Apart from minor losses, the city archives between 1849 and 1945 is well preserved and apt for research. The archives of the former royal free city of Komárom is preserved in Komarno, Tchecoslovakia, but a few running metres are found in our repository, mainly papers of economic organs between 1919 and 1938. Tatabánya has become a city in 1947, Tata and Oroszlány in 1954. Of the 72 villages of the county more than fifty have given their records to the archives, totalling 200 running metres, mainly from the last 100 years. Their value, composition, age and quantity are the most various. The archival group of Dunaalmás village (only 0,10 running metres) deserves mention, as it contains pieces of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; also other village archival groups (Ászár, Baj, Nagysáp, Pilismarót, Vértesszőllős) have material prior to 1848. The regional organs of jurisdiction are represented by more than 500 running metres, of which the nineteenth century cadastral survey has an outstanding historical value. The records of the former ecclesiastical schools of Esztergom and Tata have great value for cultural history, mostly the nineteenth century school registers of the Esztergom Benedictines and the eighteenth-nineteenth century manuscript testbooks and ornamental students' copybooks of the Tata Piarists. Very little of the once rich material of the Esztergom guilds has come into archival custody, of them the Hungarian journal of the urban millers' guild (from 1702) is the most interesting. The records of the largest capitalistic industrial enterprises are not in our archives, they are preserved by the Hungarian National Archives. About 30 running metres of varying value are kept here from smaller firms (János Fiedler Linen Industry Corp., Ács Sugar Works of Patzenhoffer Sons, etc.). An outstanding, national value may be attributed to the archives of the Esztergom Cathedral Chapter as a place of authenticity from 1225-1882, a very rich material totalling 30 running metres. Beside its medieval documents the protocols, ininterrupted from 1551, are significant. Their sixteenth to nineteenth century portion supplies ample data for the territory of the present Slovakia as well. Research is helped by coeval finding aids. A material of a few running metres from three convents (Benedictines in Esztergom, Piarists and Capucines at Tata) completes the archival groups of ecclesiastical organs.