Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck

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Building of the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck am Dom
Archival document Lübeck Imperial Freedom Letter from 1226

The archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck is the city ​​archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and is located on Mühlendamm right next to the Lübeck Cathedral together with the Museum for Nature and Environment . The archive was a state archive until the loss of Reich immediacy through the Greater Hamburg Act in 1937 . It contains information on the history of the city and the Hanseatic League.

history

The archive was first mentioned in 1298. From the office of the registrar of the chancellery, the position of the third (youngest) council secretary emerged from the 16th century , who from 1809 was also officially designated as the city ​​archivist . He was also responsible for the bar in Lübeck's Marienkirche . In 1834 the judge Carl Wilhelm Pauli found holdings that were believed to have been lost and thus gave the impetus to record, secure and research the extensive holdings in Lübeck.

As the first professional archivist was 1854, the then head of the Ernestine School , Carl Friedrich Wehrmann , ordered , who held this post until the 1,892th Before that, the third council secretary was responsible for the documents kept in the bar of the Lübeck Marienkirche since 1298. Wehrmann's successor was Paul Ewald Hasse , a student of the Göttingen medievalist Georg Waitz . Hasse thus established the tradition that the respective heads of the archive also hold a teaching position or an extraordinary professorship at the University of Kiel . Other well-known Lübeck archive directors were Johannes Kretzschmar , Georg Fink , Ahasver von Brandt , Olof Ahlers and, as the first woman in this position, Antjekathrin Graßmann . Jan Lokers has headed the archive since 2006 .

The archive was never destroyed. However, important stocks were relocated to the Gröna salt mine near Bernburg (Saale) during World War II . The medieval document of the archive to the World Documentary Heritage of UNESCO be nominated. The decision will probably be made in 2018.

Stocks

The inventory comprises over 6,000 meters of archive material. The collections of the archive not only include documents from Lübeck since the Middle Ages , but due to Lübeck's outstanding position as the capital of the Hanseatic League , it is also the most important archive for the Hanseatic era, especially since the older collections of the Hamburg State Archive were destroyed in the great fire in 1842. In addition, the archive stores z. B. also files of the Reich Chamber Court and the Higher Appeal Court of the four Free Cities . The Lübeck city archive owns more than 3,000 historical coins.

The Lübeck document holdings were summarized in the 19th century in the Codex diplomaticus Lubecensis , the document book of the city of Lübeck. Contracts, land registers and documents are also kept. The inventories were first put online with the finding aid in March 2010.

There is also for Schleswig-Holstein the National Archives Schleswig-Holstein in Schleswig where, for example the records of the former Principality Lübeck be stored.

building

One of the first places where important municipal documents and documents were stored was the bar in Lübeck's Marienkirche . The rest of the archive was kept in the Lübeck town hall . In 1881 the archive was given an office building for the first time at Königstrasse 21. The former house of the circle society was vacated by the repeal of the Higher Appeal Court of the four Free Cities on October 1, 1879 as part of the reorganization of the court system through the Reich Justice Acts. Today it is the Willy Brandt House in Lübeck .

In 1936 the archive took over the lodge house on the corner of Schildstrasse 22-30 / St.-Annen-Strasse 2. After the National Socialists banned the Masonic lodges , the house had to be sold on July 19, 1935 under duress. The inventory was largely lost and the colored glass windows with Masonic motifs installed in 1926 were destroyed. The following year, the archive took over the building under its then head Georg Fink and had a six-storey steel store installed. The move was completed in February 1937.

The building survived the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 . In 1945 the British military administration released it for archival purposes. The lodge, which has since been re-established, requested the return. This took place legally in 1950; in fact, however, the house could only be opened after the completion of the new archive building at the cathedral.

The new building moved into in 1961 on the foundations of the west wing of the Museum am Dom, which was destroyed in 1942, encloses the remains of the medieval cloister of the cathedral on two sides and includes the preserved east wall of the west wing. Parts of the neighboring armory are used as a store for the more than 6000 linear meters of archival material .

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  • Koenigstrasse 21

  • Lodge house

  • Archive building from the cathedral cloister

literature

Web links

Commons : Archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Feldhoff: The memory of the city. In: Lübecker Nachrichten , November 20, 2009, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Feldhoff: The memory of the city. In: Lübecker Nachrichten , November 20, 2009, p. 11.
  3. ↑ offsite storage Grona Lost Art at.
  4. ↑ jd: Hanseatic Documents nominated for Unesco World Heritage.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Feldhoff: The memory of the city. In: Lübecker Nachrichten , November 20, 2009, p. 17.
  6. ↑ Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the “Third Reich”. A study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7950-5214-0 , p. 335.

Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 37.2 "  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 6"  E