Jewish Municipal House - administrative center of Jewish Boskovice
Thanks to emancipation in 1848, the Jewish community in Boskovice turned into a politically independent town with its own mayor, police and fire brigade. Of all the Jewish communities in Moravia, only the Boskovice and Holešov municipalities had a separate land registry at that time.
The following authorities and institutions were located in the building of the Jewish Municipal House:
- municipal house in 1824
- district governor's office and district financial administration in the 1950s
- municipality office
- Jewish German school - Folk name- Jewish school
- offices of the political and religious community
- prayer house (during the greatest prosperity of the village in the 19th century)
- Czech national school since 1921
- library
- rabbis apartment
- hospital managers apartment
- mace bakery with storage
Fires
Fires used to be a less rare event in the history of Czech cities than their inhabitants would like. After all, already in the 16th century, guidelines were issued for craftsmen who used fire in their work: “And because from the fire pits and furnaces of their chimneys stone or brick above the truss well raised in the air and made to have smoke rising upwards, would not oppose the jurors and the surrounding neighbors. "
At the beginning of the 18th century, more fire regulations appeared and were supplemented by principles to which we would still sign today, such as "a ban on smoking tobacco in a barn, or near hay, straw, wood or chips are, a provision according to which they have be barns so far from the building that the buildings are not endangered in the event of a fire ", or the order that the floors above the halls and stables are to be covered with clay
Probably the most devastating fire engulfed Jewish Boskovice on May 1, 1823. According to official protocol, the fire destroyed 60 Jewish houses and 32 Christian houses, the town hall, contribution granaries, lordly apartments and buildings. The cause has not yet been determined. One Jewish woman and one Jewish child died in the fire.
The fire report from September 1823 states, among other things: “There are a total of 124 houses in the Jewish village of Boskovice, of which 60 are completely up to its foundations, 12 houses lost their roofs and less well-built outbuildings have burned down completely. Of these 72 buildings, 54 have been rebuilt ... ”
A curious monument to the fire of 1823 is the metal shield above the door of house no. 6 in Plačková street.
The old descriptive number of the house LXXXI is written in Latin numerals and the year 1832 is written in Arabic numerals. According to tradition, this inscription recalls the catastrophic fire of 1823, but the date on the plaque does not match. Either there was a mistake (swapping of two digits) or it is the date when the board was installed. According to the fire report, the house was destroyed in 1823, there are no reports of a fire in 1832. (Bránský, J.: Jews in Boskovice, Brno 1999)
Fire brigade of the local Jewish town. Among them, there is a board where text 1870-1934 is written.
Firemen Boskovice 1890
Firemen with fire engine in U vážné studny square.
An annual report of Jewish saving association in Boskovice, 1866.
A folder of the annual report - text "Seiner Hochgeboren Herrn Graf Alfons Mensdorff - Pouilly".
A letter of the local Jewish municipality to a count Alfons Mensdroff-Pouilly, 1862.
A folder of the letter.
Archiv MRB.
Bránský, J. : Židé v Boskovicích, Brno 1999
