Archiv města Golčův Jeníkov

accessible The fonds contains commemorative books, minutes of the municipal board and council meetings, and other documents. The history of the Jewish community after 1850 in this fonds is evidenced by archive materials concerning Jewish associations - the Talmud Torah, the Jewish Association for the Sick, the Ner Tamid Women's Support Society, the Friede Singing Association and the Bachure Chomed Association, the Jewish cemetery (an expansion of the cemetery), the funeral fraternity, Jewish farms - the weaving mill of the Pick family, the winery - the tannery of the Kohn family, and spirits, door-to-door trade, and business affairs of the Kornfeld family; decrees against Jews from the period 1939-1945, eviction of Jews from their flats. Tajovský M.: Archiv města Golčův Jeníkov 1785-1945 (1948). Inventář, 1999, 56 s., ev. č. 206. Golčův Jeníkov was founded in the Middle Ages on the so-called Haberská trail. In the years 1461–1580 it was owned by the Slavatas of Chlum and Košumberk. In 1636, General Martin Maxmilián Goltz received the municipality as a gift from the Emperor. In 1673, Golčův Jeníkov was owned by Barbora Eusebia, Countess of Žďár, married for the second time to Count Karel Leopold Caretto Millesimo. The town was hit by a large fire in 1784. The existence of the Jewish community is documented from 1654. In the modern times, there was an important Jewish community and a yeshiva. A remarkable cemetery, a synagogue and a Jewish ghetto have been preserved there.