Berlin address book
The Berlin address book was a reference work in which the residents, companies, institutions and authorities of Berlin were entered with exact addresses. The address books are available for a period of around 220 years and serve as a source for researching Berlin's city history .
Expenses and structure
The Berlin address book initially appeared at larger intervals from 1799.
The general street and apartment gazette or address book for Berlin, 1812 Julius Eduard Hitzig : Berlin: ib. 1812, 8. With a floor plan by Salomo Sachs was considered a pioneering exemplary work, in the accuracy of street mapping and addresses
From 1822 to 1943 the address book was published once a year and from 1957 it was only published for West Berlin under the title Berliner Stadtadressbuch . It was last published in 1970.
The Berlin address book was created using official sources and, using the example of the year 1935, was divided into three volumes or four parts:
- Part I Names (first volume): residents and companies sorted by name, with address and telephone number,
- Part II Sectors (second volume): Companies sorted by sector, with the address of the headquarters and telephone number,
- Part III Authorities (still second volume): Authorities, churches, schools and public institutions, with address and telephone number,
- Part IV Streets (third volume): Residents and companies sorted by street and house number, with the name of the head of the household, occupation and, if applicable, T symbol for existing telephone connection
The street directory in Part IV was accompanied by schematic street images showing the course of the respective street with its house numbers and the streets and squares crossing it. For each house the owner and address and, if necessary, an administrator and / or caretaker were given.
editor
The editions appeared from 1896 to 1943 in the address book publisher August Scherl , Deutsche Adressbuch-Gesellschaft mbH, Leipziger Strasse 76, Berlin SW 19. In addition to the Berlin complete edition, district editions were also offered. From 1957, the Berlin address book company published the address book.
Research source
The existing holdings of the Berlin address book have now been scanned page by page and are available free of charge as PDF files for historical research in the online offer of the Berlin Central and State Library .
In the foreword of the 1935 year, the foreword primarily advertised that the current edition should always be used (and purchased). This is justified with the "unusually large volume of address changes". It is stated that “when the present edition (1935) appeared, about 29% of the addresses from the year 1934, on the other hand already 51% of the addresses from the year 1933 and even 66% of the addresses from the occasional year 1932 were obsolete, i.e. unusable were. ”These figures show the extent of the change of residence and company in these years and should also be viewed in connection with the events after the Nazis came to power in 1933.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Central and State Library Berlin digital library general. Street u. Apartment gazette or address book for Berlin: ib. 1812
- ^ Foreword to the Berlin city address book 1957
- ↑ Scherl-Verlag's own advertisement with information on the five district editions in the 1935 address book
- ^ Foreword to the Berlin address book 1935