Archive of the City of Linz

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The reading room of the Linz City Archives on the 3rd floor of the New Town Hall

The archive of the city of Linz is the archive of the Upper Austrian capital Linz . It stores those documents of the city of Linz that are no longer in current official use, and conducts research in the field of Linz's city history.

Tasks of the archive of the city of Linz

The central task of the archive of the city of Linz is the research and presentation of the history of Linz. The results of the research are presented in exhibitions, publications, video productions, internet presentations, events and lecture series. The archive is also the point of contact for those who want to conduct research in the field of general and comparative history as well as the history of the city of Linz. The archive of the city of Linz evaluates the documents of the city offices and the city enterprises with regard to their importance for the administration and future historical research. The most important ("archivable") documents are stored permanently and made accessible for research. For the presentation of the history of Linz, the archive collects documentation material on associations, institutions, companies and prominent personalities. Urban development and events in Linz are continuously documented through photographs, videos and the collection of documents.

Stocks

The beginnings of the Linz City Archives go back to the end of the 14th century. The oldest holdings of the archive are the documents from the Middle Ages and the early modern period (from 1298) as well as the old files and manuscripts (from the 16th century) - decimated in the 19th century. Today, 90 percent of the archive material consists of the administrative files of the 20th century. An extensive library and audiovisual media are also located in the archive to supplement the municipal documents. The holdings are roughly divided into the so-called “old archive”, which has been completed, the “municipal registry”, where new documents are continuously added, and the area of ​​collections (documentation, audiovisual media, collections, library). Within this rough order, the archival tectonics follows the provenance principle . The holdings can be viewed on the homepage of the Archives of the City of Linz and provide an initial overview of the documents available in the archive. Large parts of the archive can be researched electronically on site.

use

The archive of the city of Linz is a public archive that can be used during opening hours without prior notification. The use of the archive and the inspection of written material are subject to the archive regulations of the City of Linz and the provisions of Upper Austria. Archives Act, the Austrian Data Protection Act and the General Administrative Procedure Act. The personal inspection is free of charge, written and telephone inquiries are possible. Fees and reimbursements are charged for certain services.

Publications

The current publications are presented on the homepage and can - provided they are not out of stock - be ordered directly from the archive of the City of Linz.

  • Historical yearbook of the city of Linz
    The historical yearbook of the city of Linz contains contributions to the history of the city of Linz .
  • Research
    in     Linz In the research in Linz, topics relating to the history of the city of Linz are dealt with in monographs.
  • Special publications,
    exhibition     catalogs , monographs, chronicles, anniversary publications
  • Linzer Regesten
    The Linzer Regesten contain excerpts from historical sources with Linz references from Austrian and non-Austrian archives.

The most important scientific publications in recent years include (sorted by year of publication):

  • Fritz Mayrhofer , Walter Schuster (Ed.): National Socialism in Linz. 2 volumes, 2nd edition, Linz 2002.
  • Walter Schuster, Wolfgang Weber (ed.): Denazification in regional comparison: the attempt to take stock. Linz 2004, ISBN 3-900388-55-5 , online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Fritz Mayrhofer, Walter Schuster (ed.): Linz in the 20th century. 2nd volumes, Linz 2010.
  • Wolfgang Weber, Walter Schuster (Ed.): Biographies and caesuras, Austria and its countries 1918–1933–1938. Linz 2011.
  • Verena Wagner: Jewish Worlds - Ten Linz Biographies. Linz 2013.
  • Gabriella Hauch : Frauen.Leben.Linz, A woman and gender history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Linz 2013.
  • Michael John : From the National Hort to the Postmodern City, On the Migration and Identity History of the City of Linz in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Linz 2015.
  • Verena Wagner: Linz 1918/1938 - Jewish biographies. Linz 2018.

The following illustrated books on historical topics have been published in recent years (sorted by year of publication):

  • Fritz Mayrhofer, Walter Schuster (ed.): Images of National Socialism in Linz. 2nd edition, Linz 2007.
  • Fritz Mayrhofer, Walter Schuster (ed.): Linz pictures. 4 illustrated books on Linz from 1848 to 2008, several editions, Linz 2005–2008.
  • Fritz Mayrhofer, Walter Schuster, Anneliese Schweiger (eds.): Linz_Einst / Jetzt. 2nd edition, Linz 2010.
  • Fritz Mayrhofer, Walter Schuster, Anneliese Schweiger (eds.): Linz_Einst / Jetzt 2. Linz 2011.
  • Fritz Mayrhofer, Walter Schuster, Anneliese Schweiger, Cathrin Hermann (eds.): Linz_Einst / Jetzt 3. Linz 2012.
  • Cornelia Daurer, Cathrin Hermann, Fritz Mayrhofer, Walter Schuster: Linz - views from six centuries. Linz 2014.

Projects

National Socialism in Linz

The municipal council of the city of Linz decided in 1996 to have the time of National Socialism including the prehistory before 1938 and the denazification after 1945 scientifically examined. 50 historians dealt with relevant aspects of the subject of National Socialism in Linz. The result is available in several publications.

Linz in the 20th century

In 2003, the Linz City Council decided to make the entire 20th century the subject of scientific research in the Linz City Archives. The archive of the city of Linz was able to present the first result of the series “Linz Pictures”, which illustrates in four volumes the development of the city of Linz from the beginnings of the political communities in Austria (1848) to the present day. In the run-up to the 2009 Capital of Culture year, Birgit Kirchmayr published the volume “Culture and Leisure Spaces in Linz in the 20th Century” as a historical yearbook. This was followed by the two-volume work “Linz in the 20th Century” with twelve articles on Linz's economic and political history, which was published in 2010. With the book "Biographien und Zäsuren, Österreich und seine Länder 1918-1933-1938", published in 2011, the administrative elites and their development in the federal government, in the individual federal states and in the city of Linz along the turning points of 1918, 1933 and 1938 are dealt with for the first time.

Linz 1918–1938

With the aim of a scholarly examination of the interwar period, the Linz City Council decided on June 4, 2009 a new project of the Archives of the City of Linz. The subject areas of the project include the political actors in Linz in the interwar period, i.e. the political parties, their organizations and programs, the ideological contrasts between the “camps”, the emergence and development of the various military associations, the relationship between the church and politics, the relationship of the city of Linz and the province of Upper Austria, as well as the effects of the turning points 1918–1934–1938 on politics and administration.

Exhibitions

The archive of the city of Linz continuously organizes exhibitions on the city's history. These are shown in various educational and cultural institutions, senior centers, schools and other institutions. As of 2010, the changes in the cityscape were documented alongside the publication "Linz_Einst / Jetzt" using historical and current images of identical motifs, followed in 2014 by an exhibition with selected images from the publication "Linz - Views from Six Centuries".

Urban history topics

The archive of the city of Linz continuously presents its activities, current research results and films on urban history topics on its homepage. In addition to a timeline on the history of the city of Linz, topics that are particularly popular are presented online:

The mayors of the city of Linz
The mayors of the city of Linz from 1848 to the present, structured according to time periods, each in chronological order
Municipal council elections
The results of the municipal council elections from 1919
Linz street names
The streets, alleys, paths and squares of Linz in alphabetical order with description of the location, the origin of the street names and the date on which they were named
Memorial sites of Nazi persecution in Linz
List of places associated with the National Socialist persecution of political, religious, ethnic and social minorities in Linz
Monument database
In 2011, the monument database created under the direction of Willibald Katzinger was taken over by the archive of the city of Linz for updating and continuation.

literature

  • Wilhelm Rausch : An archive introduces itself. Linz 1969.
  • Wilhelm Rausch: The development and operation of a municipal archive. Municipal archive work in Linz (= Festschrift Walter Goldinger ). In: Communications from the Austrian State Archives. Volume 28, Vienna 1975, pp. 68-88.
  • Emil Puffer: The archive of the city of Linz. In: Pro Civitate Austriae. Issue 10, Linz 1989, pp. 15-34.
  • Archive d. City of Linz (ed.), Otto Ruhsam (processing): Historical bibliography of the city of Linz (= Linz research 1). In: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Linz 1988. Linz 1989, pp. Iv – xii (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, pp. 1–5 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, pp. 5–26 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, p. 26–39 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, p. 39–62 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, p. 62–88 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, p. 88– 105 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, pp. 105–143 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, pp. 143–156 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, pp. 156–169 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte. at.
  • Walter Schuster: The archive of the city of Linz during the Nazi dictatorship. In: Austria's archives under the swastika. Communications from the Austrian State Archives. Volume 54, Vienna 2010, pp. 667-677.
  • Walter Schuster, Maria Jenner: The archive of the city of Linz and contemporary history. In: Scrinium. Journal of the Association of Austrian Archivists. Volume 65, 2011, pp. 117–126 ( PDF on voea.at).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linz_Einst / Now. In: youtube.com. January 4, 2012, accessed December 29, 2019 .