Image archive East Prussia

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Picture from the picture archive of the border house in Deutsch-Krottingen around 1910

The East Prussia picture archive is a wiki for pictures and documents from East Prussia . With 103,611 images (as of 2017) it is the largest image archive in the lost province of East Prussia . Around a thousand images and documents are added every month.

Background and purpose

Many pictures, family albums and documents survived the East Prussian Operation (1914) , the air raids on Königsberg , the East Prussian Operation (1945) , the conquest of Tilsit in 1945 , the battle of Königsberg and the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe 1945–1950 . Much of this is in private archives that are difficult to access. Valuable originals are not cataloged and are not used because they are only known to the owner. To remedy this, an engineer from Tilsit initiated the East Prussia image archive . Representatives of the district communities from the Tilsit-Ragnit district , from Tilsit and the elk lowlands joined the project. The East Prussian Landsmannschaft took over the sponsorship in February 2006.

The images as the content of the website come from public and private collections. Current images are included in the image archive if they are related to the time before 1945. The system technology should also be based on smartphones and tablet computers . Both the use and the posting of images are free of charge for all private users. Every user can add pictures or text contributions to pictures.

Site and area plans as well as georeferencing using a measuring table are used to document the image objects . Uniform categorizations and text files help with targeted searches. Thirteen volunteers and semi-volunteers collect, sort, retouch and digitize the entrances. In 2020, the archive recorded 4,447 visits a month.

The archive processes historical inquiries and image orders from magazines and book publishers . It supports exhibitions in Germany, Poland , Russia and Lithuania . Interest in East Prussia is growing. Many inquiries have come from residents of Kaliningrad Oblast and the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . This is one of the reasons why the website is multilingual. The number of 100,000 images was already reached before 2018. Then the evaluation of the works of East Prussian writers is due.

Cooperations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Interview with Manfred Schwarz, Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung , March 2014
  2. ↑ Successful database. The holdings of the East Prussia picture archive are constantly growing (Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung, May 14, 2011)
  3. ↑ url.metriken.de