Nationaal Ghent

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The Ghent Archives ( Ghent Archives) are two archives of the City of Ghent in Belgium that have been merged since 2017 and now form a single unit. These two archives are the Ghent City Archives , founded in 1817 , or Ghent City Archives , the main archive for the history of the city, and the Ghent archives OCMW. In 2018, the two are to vacate their previous locations, namely Neermeerskaai 1B (the currently still existing OCMW Archief) and Dulle-Grietlaan 12 (the previous Stadsarchief) to reside in the De Zwarte Doos building in Dulle-Grietlaan.

The core of the holdings of the city archive consists of the city's files and processes since the Middle Ages. The holdings up to 1795 are in the Oud Archief, along with other holdings from the Ancien Régime . The holdings from the French period (1795–1815), then the Dutch (1815–1830), and finally the Belgian (from 1830) can be found in the Modern Archief, together with those of the sub-municipalities of today's city.

The Oud Archief is described in the 1983 Archiefgids , further information on the house can be found in the 1988 history of the perkament . The Modern Archief is organized less according to provenance than by topic, so that files on finances and those on public works or the population are archived separately from one another. All archival material on the marital status , such as baptismal records , which were created up to 1795, can also be found in the house, the more recent holdings of this type are in the municipal Administratief Centrum (AC) Zuid on Woodrow Wilsonplein.

In addition to the city's holdings, there are numerous private archives in the city's archive, as well as extensive photo holdings. It also has its own library with more than 30,000 titles.

The second institution, the Ghent Stadsarcheologie, was founded in 1973. Both the archaeologically relevant objects and the associated documents are archived, tagged and inventoried there, and a library has also been built since then. There is also its own database, the Vulferusdatabank .

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  1. ↑ These are: Afsnee, Desteldonk, Drongen, Gentbrugge, Ledeberg, Mariakerke, Mendonk, Oostakker, Sint-Amandsberg, Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Sint-Kruis-Winkel, Wondelgem and Zwijnaarde. Some of the files created there are still in the service centers there.
  2. ↑ Ghent City Archives : Archiefgids Oud Archief , PDF, 79.5 MB
  3. ^ René De Herdt, Johan Vannieuwenhuyse: Historie op perkament. Op zoek naar en verleden in het Gentse stadsarchief , Dienst voor Culturele Zaken Stadsarchief, Gent 1988, pp. 65–78 (PDF, 9.48 MB).
  4. ↑ Depot profile archeological depot Stad Gent , PDF, 423 kB.