Aristocratic archives
A Adelsarchiv (also reign archive , Gutsarchiv ) is a collection of historical documents and information about members of the nobility .
Aristocratic archives often keep valuable documents going back a long way. In the case of former noblemen , these archives also contain documents of a public nature (e.g. for exercising patrimonial jurisdiction).
Often nobility archives by purchase or Depositalvertrag in state archives or other public archives come.
In Baden-Württemberg , the state archive administration counted over 10,000 meters of shelves and over 70,000 documents in private hands in almost 100 aristocratic archives.
When the transmission is still in the hands of the noble families archives a right of access exists only on a voluntary basis, unless there is an out of the Fideikommissrecht derivable obligation to make the archive accessible.
The maintenance of the German aristocratic archives in Westphalia is successfully organized, as the LWL archives office for Westphalia ( Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe ) ensures their use in cooperation with the United Westphalian aristocratic archives .
Within the Association of Archivists , the group of 4 archivists at manorial, house and family archives gathers the fewer and fewer archivists who look after these archives.
Many large aristocratic archives are entered in the directory of nationally valuable archives . This measure is intended to prevent the cultural property from migrating abroad. Comparatively rarely, aristocratic archives are made subject to monument protection by being entered in the monument register .
In North Rhine-Westphalia, private archives are excluded from the scope of both the Monument Protection Act and the Archive Act.
See also
- Princely Leiningen's archive in Amorbach
- Hohenlohe Central Archive in Neuenstein
- German aristocratic archives