Okresní soud Hlinsko

Available upon request due to the personal data protection. Full text searching tools for the fonds are being currently developed. The fonds contains documents of the court administration of the Hlinsko district. Jewish affairs can be found in the following documents: inheritance files (files marked A, D, IV) 1850-1949, index of estates, registers of estates. Also relevant are the files relating to the declarations of death (file marked M) 1946-1949, guardianship files and registers (files marked E, P) 1924-1949. Letocha J. – Letochová A. – Slavíková Z.: Okresní soud Hlinsko, 1959. The Hlinsko District Court was established in 1849. In 1855, when a mixed district office was created, dealing with all administrative, tax and judicial matters. From 1868, the mixed district offices were again divided into separate district courts and district offices. The court in Hlinsko functioned from 1868 to 1949, when the Skuteč District Court was affiliated to it. There was a change in 1952 - the Constitutional Act on Courts and the Prosecutors' Offices divided courts into People's Courts (former district courts), regional courts and the Supreme Court. In 1960, during the territorial reorganization, the People's Court in Hlinsko ceased to exist and was annexed to Chrudim.