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

Csongrád Megyei Levéltár (Csongrád County Archives)

CSONGRÁD MEGYEI LEVÉLTÁR (CSONGRÁD COUNTY ARCHIVES) 6701 SZEGED, Széchenyi tér 10. (Pf. 460.) Tel. 12-509 Director: Dr. József FARKAS At Szentes (6600 SZENTES, Kossuth tér 1. Tel. 314) there is a branch of the Archives, the collecting interest of which covers the area of the city and the district Szentes. The repository controls also a branch at Csongrád (6640 CSONGRÁD, Kossuth tér 7, Tel. 31) with a collecting interest over the city. Outlaid branches are active also at Makó (6309 MAKÓ, Lenin tér 6. Tel. 20) and at Hódmezővásárhely (6800 HÓDMEZŐVÁSÁRHELY, Kossuth tér 1. Tel. 11-122), their collecting interest covers the seat of the branch. The present partition is a consequence of the special history of to-days Csongrád county. Beside the earlier seat of the county, Szentes, also Szeged, formerly a free royal city and Hódmezővásárhely, a municipality since the last century possessed selfstanding archives. The former Csanád county had its seat at Makó where the county records have been kept; to-day the town belongs equally to Csongrád county. The county records were transferred to Szeged in 1950, while those of Makó remained in the town. Only the construction of a new central edifice could end this division. We have data on the formation and development of Csanád county archives from 1717 only, the archival material begins also in this year. The archives was situated at Makó, in the first county hall built in 1745. In September 1950, as the county ceased to exist, its whole archival material was incorporated in the Szeged Archives and transferred from Makó to Szeged. The records of the administrative and judicial organs of the county are preserved unhurt. The archival material of central administration, however, lacks the records between 1851 and 1861, a period in which Csanád county was attached to Békés county; they may be found in Békés County Archives. The judicial records, however, begin with the year 1731 and are preserved completely up to 1872. The papers of the nobilitary county regarding taxation and finance are also complete up to 1848, those of the accountancy of the bourgeois period are, however, very defective. To the territory of Csanád county, truncated in 1923, the remainders of the counties Arad and Torontál were attached. Consequently the name of the unit was changed too; it was called Csanád — Arad — Torontál "temporarily