Archive of the Diocese of Augsburg

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The archive of the Diocese of Augsburg is responsible, on the basis of canon law and in particular the applicable archiving regulations of the Catholic Church , for the archival transmission of the central episcopal authority and all institutions and offices of the Diocese of Augsburg as well as the deaneries and parishes in the diocese. As a department, it is assigned to the Central Services of the Vicariate General .

history

The older holdings of the Augsburg bishopric and the Augsburg cathedral chapter before 1803 are now in the Augsburg State Archives as a result of secularization . After the re-establishment of the diocese of Augsburg in 1817/21, the Benedictine Father Placidus Braun, as historian and monk of the former imperial abbey of St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg, was responsible for the establishment of an ordinariate archive. As one of his successors, Antonius von Steichele was archivist from 1841 to 1848 . He later became Archbishop of Munich and Freising .

During the Second World War, the archive suffered severe losses of non-outsourced holdings and was reopened in Augsburger Kornhausgasse after reconstruction in 1955. The relocated and returned stocks were re-opened. The previous Ordinariatsarchiv was given its current name through expanded responsibility and has been in the Johann-Michael-Sailer-Haus on Hafnerberg since 1977 with the corresponding adult holdings . Adapted to the spatial and temporal requirements, the archive of the diocese of Augsburg moved to a new location in May 2016 at Pfarrhausstrasse 4 in Augsburg-Oberhausen . A new administration building was built on the site of the old rectory. For the magazine that was the nave of the church Saint Joseph Augsburg-Oberhausen structurally separated and adapted. Five levels with mobile shelving systems were installed in the central nave . The side aisles took up further functional rooms. The parish kept its church in the newly designed choir for the celebration of services.

Stocks

The holdings include files from the Episcopal Ordinariate from the 15th to the 20th century and the archives of the Canons' Monastery of St. Moritz and the St. Hieronymus Seminary in Dillingen an der Donau . Monastery files as well as theological and liturgical manuscripts of the monasteries and monasteries in the diocese of Augsburg are still partially preserved, including an edition of the Rule of Saint Benedict from the former monastery of Saint Mang in Füssen from the 9th century, as well as a gradual from the women's monastery of St. Stephan in Augsburg from 1527 and the typeface book Proba centum scripturarum of the Augsburg Benedictine Leonhard Wagner , created between 1507 and 1517 . The parish registers (baptismal, marriage and death registers) of the parishes of the diocese are kept as digital copies and can be viewed by users for research after making a corresponding request.

The archive of the Diocese of Augsburg has a reading room with screen devices and an official library with around 23,000 volumes on the diocese, local and parish history, official gazettes and church newspapers.

Web links

Commons : Archive of the Diocese of Augsburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocesan archives now in St. Joseph. In: Augsburger Allgemeine , May 19, 2016, accessed on July 4, 2016.
  2. Andrea Baumann: A church becomes an archive. In: Augsburger Allgemeine , May 20, 2016, accessed on July 4, 2016.

Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 16 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 44 ″  E