City Archives Braunschweig

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City Archives Braunschweig

City archive in Braunschweig Castle
City archive in Braunschweig Castle
Archive type Municipal Archives
place Braunschweig
founding 1860
scope 10,000 documents,
1,865 official books
ISIL DE-Bs92 (Braunschweig City Archives)
carrier City of Braunschweig
Website http://www.braunschweig.de/stadtarchiv

The Braunschweig city archive is one of the largest municipal archives in Lower Saxony . Its holdings go back to 1031. Since June 25, 2007 it has been located in the reconstructed Braunschweig Castle .

history

Origins

Already at the beginning of the 15th century there is evidence of an archive for the city of Braunschweig in which important documents were stored for reasons of legal security. After the loss of urban freedom in 1671, the main holdings of the archive were confiscated and taken to the ducal residence city of Wolfenbüttel . The holdings that remained in Braunschweig were initially stored in the mint on Kohlmarkt and from 1717 in the Neustadtrathaus . While Braunschweig belonged to the Napoleonic Oker département between 1807 and 1813, the historical holdings suffered. The situation was only improved by the further development of local self-government in 1825. The magistrate director Wilhelm Bode († 1854), who had been in office since 1825, ensured suitable archiving and storage for the municipal documents in the cloister of the Brothers Church (since 1836) and advocated the repatriation of the holdings that had been alienated since 1671.

Founded March 1, 1860

In the course of the preparations for the 1000th anniversary of the city in 1861 and due to the increasing historical awareness associated with it, an archive association was founded in 1860. This dealt with the establishment of the archive and the issuing of important documents.

The founding date of the new city archive is March 1, 1860, when the city council decided to organize and take stock of the archives and made 200 thalers available for this purpose every year.

The first full-time archivist was the historian Ludwig Hänselmann , who headed the “Municipal Collections” consisting of the City Archives, City Library and City Museum until his death in 1904 (City Museum until 1898).

The location of the collections was the Neustadtrathaus in 1863.

New building on Steintorwall in 1910

Former building entrance on Steintorwall

In the spring of 1910, the City Archives and City Library moved into the building created by Max Osterloh at Steintorwall 15.

During the Second World War , no archive work was possible at times. Between 1942 and 1944, almost 75% of the archives were relocated to the area around Braunschweig and thus saved from destruction. The City Archives and City Library were closed in August 1944. After the end of the war, the city archives initially remained closed, as the bombed-out municipal utilities used large parts of the building until 1949.

On June 12, 1950, the renovated reading room of the city archive and the city library was reopened. Due to a lack of coal, the city archives, the city library, the city museum and 36 schools were closed on February 20, 1956.

On January 1, 1981, the previous administrative unit of the City Archives and City Library was dissolved, with the latter being combined with the public library. The city archive was given the status of an independent institution.

In 1985 the archive moved to the outbuilding at Löwenwall 18 B.

New location in Braunschweiger Schloss since 2007

City Archives logo.

The new location of the city archive has been the reconstructed Braunschweig Castle since June 25, 2007 .

Archive manager

Long-term archive directors were Ludwig Hänselmann (1861 to 1904), Heinrich Mack (1904 to 1934), Werner Spieß (1935 to 1956), Richard Moderhack (1956 to 1970), Ottokar Israel (April 1, 1970 to December 31, 1979), Manfred Garzmann (from 1981), Ulrike Höroldt (2001 to 2002), Bettina Schmidt-Czaia (2002–2005). The archive has been headed by Henning Steinführer since 2006 .

Stocks

The consecration certificate of the Magni Church from 1031. It is also the oldest documentary evidence of the name "Brunesguik" (2nd line, center) , which became "Braunschweig" in the 16th century.

The city archive has almost 10,000 documents and 1,865 volumes of city registers in its inventory. The entire archive inventory covers more than 1,500 meters. The preservation of the stock is ensured by an attached bookbinding and restoration workshop.

  • A The document archive includes a. Guild and church documents as well as family archives. Among the most important documents include the ordination certificate of Magnikirche from the year 1031, in the name of suburban settlement ( "Brunesguik") for the first time on record, the Middle Low German drafted " Ottonianum " in which Duke Otto the child in 1227 the precincts of Old town confirmed existing rights as well as the coat of arms of King Albrecht II from October 15, 1438
  • B The old council archive contains u. a. City books, invoices and city files of the almost imperial-free city up to 1671.
  • C In the older municipal archives (1671–1825) are u. a. Contains new citizens' books, trade files and archive materials from the French occupation.
  • D The Younger Magistrate Archives (1825–1930) include u. a. Registration files, city administration files and wills books.
  • E The 20th century municipal archive (since 1930) contains documents from the building regulations office, the municipal schools and the public order office.
  • F In the invoice archive u. a. Church bills and city bills kept.
  • G The special archive of non-urban provenance includes u. a. Estates, company and guild archives as well as church registers.
  • H The collections of various contents contain theater slips, funeral sermons, manuscripts, city maps, seals as well as family and ancestral tables. The newspaper archive , which dates back to 1721 , has been complete since 1745. The city archives keep among others the legacies of Wilhelm Raabe , Friedrich Gerstäcker and Carl Friedrich Gauß .

Publications and exhibitions

The font series

  • Braunschweig workpieces
  • Quaestiones Brunsvicenses

are published by the Braunschweig City Archives.

Numerous special exhibitions have been presented in the past (selection):

  • November 10, 1960 Opening of the exhibition " Wilhelm Raabe on the 50th anniversary of his death"
  • May 2 to June 30, 1972 " Friedrich Gerstäcker on the 100th anniversary of death"
  • October 6, 1990 to January 6, 1991 "300 years of theater in Braunschweig"
  • September 7 to December 31, 2006 Exhibition on the occasion of Wilhelm Raabe's 175th birthday

literature

  • Garzmann, Manfred RW / Schuegraf, Wolf-Dieter (eds.): Anniversary publication: 125 years of the city archive. 125 years of the city library. 75 years of the public library , Braunschweig 1985.
  • Garzmann, Manfred RW: City Archives (StA) . In: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , published on behalf of the city of Braunschweig by Luitgard Camerer / Manfred RW Garzmann and Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf with special assistance from Norman-Mathias Pingel, Braunschweig 1992, p. 216, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 .
  • Richard Moderhack : One Hundred Years of the City Archives and City Library Braunschweig 1861-1961 , Braunschweig 1961.
  • Werner Spieß : The Braunschweig city archive. Its history and its holdings , Braunschweig 1951 (= work pieces from the museum, archive and library of the city of Braunschweig, vol. 14).

Web links

Commons : Braunschweig City Archives  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred RW Garzmann, Selected documents on the medieval history of the city of Braunschweig, in: Gerd Spies (ed.), Brunswiek 1031 - Braunschweig 1981 , Braunschweig 1981; Pp. 571-593

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 49.8 "  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 39.2"  E