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The town hall and its role in shaping the archives and chancellery of the town of Lwów in late medieval times(Summary) There is no information on the initial period of operation of the municipal chancellery in Lviv. The town writers and documents issued by the council and the municipal tribunal were first mentioned in the second half of the 14th century. One of the chancellery’s basic tasks was to...
The finances of the Złotoryja town hall in the second half of the 17th century(Summary) The operations of the treasury in municipal councils in old Silesian towns have not been widely studied. Based on the collected source materials, the article presents the structure of finances at the Złotoryja town hall in the second half of the 17th century. In that period Złotoryja was in the final stages of...
Town hall finances in the Middle Ages(Summary) The “town hall’s” expenses were an almost standard item in the late medieval accounts of towns influenced by German culture. This item could usually be associated with the general costs for maintaining the institutions, related to the council’s exercising power in the town, and included also direct expenditure on the town hall building and on the activities...
Karolina SzlęzakExpenditure to maintain the town hall in Kraków from the 16th to 18th century(Summary) The excellently preserved town archives in Kraków, and above all, the sources of finance, enable extensive research to be conducted on the expenditure incurred to maintain Kraków’s town hall. The most important sources are the well preserved records regarding the city’s income and expenditure, which...
The symbolism of town halls in medieval cities. Selected examples(Summary) Town halls have always been the best example of the aspirations and possibilities of urban communities. The location of the town hall building was related to its central role in the political system and functioning of the town. This was the case, irrespective of the period in which the building was raised, or its size. Its...
Town hall – an archive of memories(Summary) The town hall was an archive of collective memories of the town’s community and individual memories of the townspeople. It was where the most important documents for the municipality were kept, above all the foundation charter, trading privileges, as well as customs exemptions. The most important documents were read out during the annual council nominations...
The town hall in small Polish towns from the 15th to the 16th century(Summary) This article attempts to find an answer to the question about the presence and role of town halls in very small and small Polish towns (i.e. in centres with a population of from several hundred to just over one thousand people) in the 15th to 16th centuries. Notes made in the town’s ledgers, which included expenses related...
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