City Archives Kassel

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The city ​​archive of Kassel collects and preserves the historical tradition of the city of Kassel . Spatially, it is responsible for the history of the city of Kassel with the incorporated places Bettenhausen , Harleshausen , Kirchditmold , Niederzwehren , Nordshausen , Oberzwehren , Rothenditmold , Wahlershausen , Waldau , Wilhelmshöhe , Wehlheiden and Wolfsanger .

history

Locations

The first known location of the city archive was a vault in the town hall on Altmarkt from 1408. Since 1837 the archive has been in Oberneustädter town hall. In 1905 it moved to the newly founded Murhard Library . In 1935 it was again housed in the new town hall of Kassel, where after several moves in the building it finally found its place on the ground floor next to the joinery. After the attack on Kassel in October 1943, the archive in the town hall burned down completely. The small remains were relocated in 1944 and only returned to the city in 1946. After several moves in the post-war years, the archive moved first to Palais Bellevue in 1958 and then to the rebuilt Marstall , where it is still located today.

staff

The first archivist known by name was Archivrat Landau, who in the 1840s was entrusted with the organization and indexing of the remains of the municipal archive. Since 1885 the archive has been administered by Hugo Brunner (librarian and later director of the Murhard library). In 1905 city librarian Paul Heidelbach took over the administration of the archive on a part-time basis. Wilhelm Ide was hired as the first full-time archivist in 1935. In 1944 the city commissioned Robert Friderici to look after the remains of the archive and other collections. A little later, in 1948, Erwin W. Ebert, previously employed as an investigator at the Spruchkammer, took over the management of the city archive, but Friderici remained a scientific advisor. After Ebert's departure in 1952, Friderici took over the archive again and worked as the city archivist until 1962, supported by Wilhelm Niemeyer since 1959. After Niemeyer's death in 1966, Friderici took over the management again at short notice. Finally, in 1968, Frank-Roland Klaube became a trained archivist for the first time in the Kassel city archive. He headed the archive until 2008. At the end of 2008, Sigrid Schieber took over the management of the archive, but only stayed 11 months and moved to the Hessian main state archive in Wiesbaden for personal reasons. From November 2010, the archive was headed by Alexandra Lutz. Stephan Schwenke has been head of the Kassel City Archives since January 1, 2014.

Inventory history

The Kassel archive has suffered numerous losses over the centuries. In two cases (1239 and 1384) major losses of city documents have already been handed down in the Middle Ages. A major turning point in the history of the city archive was the establishment of a new jury court in 1808 and the associated move of the city hall. The court was to find its seat in the town hall on the Altmarkt, while the previous Oberneustädter town hall served as the new town hall of Kassel. The then mayor of the city reported to the prefect of the Fuldadepartement that the previous town hall contained only some court files that were still needed, only old city files and invoices "which go beyond several centuries and are therefore no longer of any practical use". On April 12, 1808, the Casseler newspaper said that "a batch of old useless papers" was to be sold to the highest bidder in the town hall.

After presumably larger parts of the medieval and early modern tradition had already been lost, the city archive was completely lost in 1943. As a result of the air raid in October 1943, the archive in the town hall burned down completely. Wilhelm Ide had previously tried unsuccessfully to move to a safe location. The remains were brought to safety by Ide, who resigned from the archive service in 1945, and the later city archivist Friderici to Hof Kapelle near Marburg and Karlshafen.

Stocks

Due to the loss of the older holdings in 1943, only a few of the holdings of the City Archives date back to before 1943. The personal history and subject matter folders (S1 and S 5) were enriched by collections of clippings bought later by private individuals, so that newspaper clippings from the 1920s and 1930s can also be found in them.

Department A

Written material from the city council and the city administration, broken down by office. These include important holdings for biographical data, genealogical research and identification of heirs:
- official registration documents from 1868 to approx. 1995 (around 1.5 million index cards)
- housekeeping records from 1909 to 1968
- civil status register of the registry office in Kassel, status 2009: birth register 1874–1898, Marriage register 1874–1928 and death register 1874–1978 (a new year is added every year).

Department B

Written material from non-urban institutions (associations, exhibition societies, etc.)

Department C

Written personal papers and material collections, including family archives

Department D (Collections)

  • S1 Personnel

Collection of materials - mostly newspaper clippings - on the life and work of people in the city's history

  • S3 Handwritten unique pieces
  • S4 Periodicals

425 periodically published or appearing pamphlets

  • S5 Contemporary History Collection

mostly newspaper clippings on topics and keywords

  • S6 brochures

1,250 individually listed informative pamphlets of smaller size

  • S7 folders

44 picture folders on the city's history

  • S8 Dettmar Collection on the Air War
  • Newspapers

since 1945, chronologically collected and bound

  • Collection of portraits (16th - 20th centuries)

1000 photographs, engravings, lithographs, etc.

  • City plans and maps

approx. 1,200 pieces

  • Architectural drawings, cracks

approx. 1,650 pieces

Posters approx. 1,150 pieces

  • 19th century pamphlets

1,400 pamphlets and notices on the wall

Photo archive approx. 120,000 photos, plus the Carl Eberth photo estate with approx. 45,000 photos

Images other than photographs

  • 1,850 images
  • Postcards

3,500 pieces with Kassel motifs

Department E (City History Library)

With a focus on the history of Kassel and the surrounding area, 9,000 volumes along with 145 address books and 74 volumes of the court calendar and 89 magazines (completed and current)

literature

  • Frank-Roland Klaube: The archive of the city of Kassel. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Volume 81 (1970).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bankruptcies and bad luck in the city archive - HNA.de June 9, 2010
  2. ^ Again change in the city archive - HNA.de June 19, 2013
  3. ↑ He wants to make the archive more attractive - HNA.de January 10, 2014