Archiv města Habry

partly accessible Macek L.– Pospíchalová H.: Archiv města Habry 1613-1945 (1950). Inventář, 2003, 16 s., ev. č. 215. The fonds contains documents, legal books, minutes of the council board and council, the municipal agenda, the agenda of municipal institutes and other documents. The period after 1850: the memorial book contains numerous information about the Jewish community, synagogue, and prominent natives - Adolf Stránský, A.G. Stránský, and others. In other documents (especially meetings of the council board and council): reconstruction of the synagogue, economic agenda, Jewish enterprises - Lazar Pick and sons, Werfel & Böhm Comp. The period of 1938-1945: decrees against Jews, list of Jews and Jewish enterprises, Aryanization of enterprises, regulations concerning Jewish doctors. The first record of Habry can be found in the Kosmas Chronicle from 1101. It is connected with the so-called Haberská Trail connecting Bohemia and Moravia. The earliest record concerning Jews is also connected to the trail - it is in the toll tariff from 1341. After 1850, it became the seat of the district court and the center of the Habry self-governing district and part of the Čáslav political district. In the modern times, there was an important Jewish community. A Jewish cemetery has been preserved there. In the 19th century, the town had a rural, agricultural character, the only larger enterprise - the glove factory Werfel & Böhm (affiliate) - disappeared during the First World War.