Archival Heritage of the Valpovo Estate

Dražen Kušen, PhD the archival materials titled Acta Viennensia , and when the members of prerequisite for this work is long-term work planning, knowledge of Latin the family were getting married and when the estate changed ownership and German languages, particularly hand-written German Gothic script. Archival Heritage of the from family to family, they enriched those archives with the documents from the heritage of other families they were related to. Karaman’s Archival heritage – selection for the Exhibition Valpovo description of the Valpovo Estate and the structure of the archival Landowners Prandau-Normann Valpovo Estate materials in those archives is very important for this paper, because that Written and illustrated traces that represent the archival heritage of the description is the basis for all subsequent archival and research procedures Valpovo Estate today include recordings on parchment, paper, and other 8 regarding the materials from the Valpovo Estate. While he was working materials, diplomas from rulers, accounts of various events, letters to on that fonds, Karaman shared his discoveries about the materials, its loved ones, genealogical notes, lists of assets, contracts, receipts, and structure and signicance, with the professional community even before many other documents that were carefully stored and carefully protected 9 he published the mentioned book. in the archives of the estate. e total of 124 exhibits from that archival Due to the regional nature of the archival fonds of the Valpovo Estate, the heritage were selected for the exhibition project Valpovo Landowners e complex interdisciplinary and inter-institution exhibition titled by the communist regime a"er the war, all through the period in which fonds were transferred from the holdings of the State Archives in Zagreb Prandau Normann, which are set in six thematic units within the newly Valpovo Landowners Prandau-Normann in many ways originated it was taken over and stored at the State Archives of Croatia, as it was to the holdings of the Osijek archives, then the summary inventory of refurbished space of the State Archives in Osijek: Landowners Symbolised from the archival fonds of the Valpovo Estate, which is kept in the State called at the time, until it was stored and kept at the then-existing that fonds was written by Stjepan Sršan in 1977. at informational aid by their Coat of Arms; Paper and Quill rough History; e Estate 2 Archives in Osijek. What was once a compact and tangible wealth of Historical Archives, the State Archives in Osijek today . According to the is still available to researchers and the employees of the archives, for eatre in Valpovo; Estate, Land, and People; Families, Individuals, spiritual and material assets of the Valpovo landowners is now a divergent information from the Book of Acquisitions, the materials were taken by the purpose of facilitating orientation in the fonds. For many years, it Relationships, and Connections; Landowners and their Signicance for 3 heritage spread over multiple heritage institutions in Osijek and Valpovo, the archives in multiple occasions. It is one of the rare archival fonds from was necessary to conduct a thorough review of that fonds and create a the Wider Community. Aside from those exhibits and thematic units, but also beyond, owned by private individuals. However, the documented which the materials, even though they are preserved only partially, vividly more modern informational aid, this issue was brought up by archives some of the selected exhibits from the holdings of the State Archives in trail of creation, acquisition, or use, the actual context for the existence outline the organisation, administration, and activities of estates as part of employees who regularly search through the fonds for the clients and Osijek have been displayed in other partner institutions engaged in this of many exhibits from the holdings of specic institutions chosen for a wider environment, as well as the life and work of the landowners and bring the ordered materials to the reading room of the archives, but by project. 12 So the selection of hand-written maps and plans from the fonds this exhibition, can be found in the documents kept at the archival fonds their subjects in Eastern Croatia, in the period from the beginning of the some of the researches as well. e structure of that inventory, its direct of the Valpovo Estate is displayed in the exhibition at the Museum of th of the Valpovo Estate. is is conrmed by professional and scientic 18 century to 1945. reliance on the register informational aids in the fonds itself, as well as Slavonia 13 and the selection of the most signicant construction projects papers written on the basis of that archival fonds published so far, which e archives of the Valpovo Estate, especially as the generator of materials some of its deciencies, were also commented in papers published by is shown in the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts 14 , while only two cover the areas of history, art, sociology, and economy, but also popular related to matters of economy, was thoroughly investigated by Igor some researchers. 10 Karaman himself later mentioned the oldest inventory designs have been displayed in the exhibition at the State Archives in publications, written from the perspective of the local history of Valpovo Karaman, rst as part of the research for his doctoral dissertation, 4 which of that fonds again, for the rst issue of the Glasnik arhiva Slavonije i Osijek 15 . e appropriate pieces of furniture and equipment from the and the Valpovo region. is catalogue is one such recent witness of the he then adapted into a valuable book that provides a historical-economic Baranje. 11 Nevertheless, due to the dynamics of the priorities in organising holdings of the Museum of Slavonia, the photographs of the theatre archived roots of that heritage and almost all of the papers included in it analysis of the Valpovo Estate. is book is a model for a historical- and reviewing the fonds and collections in the Osijek archives, the building in Valpovo from the holdings of the Valpovo Regional Museum, refer to the sources from the mentioned archival fonds. economic overview of the development of a large, late-feudal estate opportunity to review the fonds of the Valpovo Estate and prepare a new and the replicas of the portraits from the holdings of the Museum of Fine and its transformation into a large capitalist property a"er serfdom was summary inventory according to modern archival standards before the Arts were borrowed for the decoration of the space in the State Archives Archival Fonds of the Valpovo Estate abolished in Croatia in 1848, as well as the rise, stagnation, and regression preparation of this complex exhibition project never presented itself. in Osijek, where this part of the exhibition will be held. For the archival section of participation in this four facet exhibition, of the estate due to the wider economic environment in the Monarchy, e archival fonds of the Valpovo Estate only includes a part of the 5 the State Archives in Osijek reveals a selection of documents and other in Europe, and in the world. e quality of archival research always archival materials that were created during the life and activities of the Landowners Symbolised by their Coat of Arms recordings from its holdings that comprise the fonds HR-DAOS-476, depends on the knowledge about the archival fonds, its units, the original noble families Hilleprand von Prandau and von Normann-Ehrenfels. e coats of arms from the fonds of the Valpovo Estate provide us with a Valpovo Estate. is estate, as the creator of the archival fonds of the system of organisation and deposition of documents, as well as any Even though the nature and origin of that fonds places it in the group of glimpse of information from the long period of history in which the coats Hilleprand von Prandau and von Normann-Ehrenfels families, existed subsequent factors that in#uenced their organisation. With that in mind, personal and family fonds, only a small part of the recordings kept within of arms of noble families were used as a symbol of recognition among and was active from 1721 to 1945, and the preserved materials created in the introductory part of his book, Karaman rst described the Valpovo contain the documents that would comprise an actual personal and/or those families. is catalogue devoted a paper by Silvija Lučevnjak to the by its activities cover the period from 1727 to 1945. According to the Estate as a property with a certain territory, settlements, population, family archival fonds, with personal documents, private correspondence, topic of the coats of arms of the Valpovo landowners. It is necessary to 6 published information, the fonds contains 1251 archival books, 2119 relationships, and values. e administrative and organisational structure personal and family mementos, genealogies, personal and family notes, point out that the coats of arms from the holdings of the Valpovo Estate archival boxes, which is 275 linear metres of archival materials in total. of the creator greatly a!ects the type of materials being created and the and similar. ere are some of those recordings, but the recordings on are a distinct type of hand-made coats of arms with a funerary purpose, Maps and designs, and coats of arms and diplomas should be added to formation of the unit structure in the process of depositing archival property management and legal a!airs, economic activity, and nances at so they are funerary coats of arms known in German speaking lands as 1 that, because they are stored in a di!erent set of archival books and boxes. materials. It is followed by the introduction of the landowning families, the estate, later property, are mostly kept in the fonds.

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