Bregenzerwald Archive
The Bregenzerwald Archive (BWA) is a publicly accessible archive for the Bregenzerwald region and is located in the listed Feldkircherhaus in Egg (about 545 m above sea level ).
history
In the early 1980s, the Bregenzerwald Heimatpflegeverein founded a Bregenzerwald Archive. The municipality of Egg provided rooms on the second floor of the old elementary school free of charge. The defined purpose of the archive was the task of collecting archival material (without exception of all kinds) specifically from the Bregenzerwald area, ..., to organize them and to make them available for private and scientific research or purposes. Since it was founded, the archive has been looked after on a voluntary basis by the local researcher and member of the Heimatpflegeverein, Werner Vogt , and a substantial part of the holdings is based on his research.
In the early 2000s, as part of efforts to declare the Bregenzerwald a World Heritage Site , it was repositioned under Regionalentwicklung Bregenzerwald GmbH. and this set up a working group in 2004. The spatially cramped situation in the former primary school in Egg should also be resolved. Subsequently, between the regional development Bregenzerwald GmbH. and the Heimatpflegeverein concluded an agreement on the reorganization of the archive in order to safeguard the goal of collecting and preserving the region's written cultural heritage in the long term. All archival material previously collected by Werner Vogt and the Heimatpflegeverein as well as a large collection of postcards and numerous private holdings were handed over to the new Bregenzerwald Archive on permanent loan and a full-time archivist was hired on October 1, 2008. Since then, the costs for financing the archive have been borne by 23 of the 24 municipalities in the Bregenzerwald. These changes were made possible by start-up funding from LEADER funds from the European Union for the development of rural areas.
The main objective now was to bring together the documents of the municipal administration of the municipalities of the Bregenzerwald in accordance with the Vorarlberg Archives Act of 2016 and to make them publicly accessible. In order to make this possible, the public-law administrative association Bregenzerwald Archive was founded, which started work on January 1, 2010 and belongs to 23 of the 24 Bregenzerwald municipalities (excluding Warth ). Adequate storage facilities in air-conditioned storage rooms for the existing and future municipal (administrative) documents in the region were created four years later, as well as a work and user room that is also suitable for events.
A joint project on the effects of the First World War in the region was carried out from 2016 to 2019 with the local chronicles of the Bregenzerwald communities, who support the archive in collecting private holdings .
Legal basis
Legal basis of the collections
The Bregenzerwald Archive fulfills a statutory mandate. According to § 1 Archives Act, archives of the state, the municipality and other archives of public interest and access to these archives must be guaranteed and (§ 2) the traceability of state and state- related actions and an authentic tradition of the history of the state and municipalities must be ensured the cultural heritage of the state of Vorarlberg must be preserved.
According to Section 5, Paragraph 2 of the Archives Act, the archives of the municipality are to be kept by the mayor in the archives of the municipality or by the chairman of the association in the archives of the respective municipal association. A community association can, by agreement, use a community belonging to the association or another community association of which at least one community belonging to the association is a member to archive its archive material .
The municipalities of the Bregenzerwald joined forces in 2010 and commissioned the Bregenzerwald Archive with archiving in accordance with the Archives Act.
Private law basis of the collections
In addition to the archives of the communities in the Bregenzerwald, donations and loans from private individuals and associations etc. are archived that are related to the Bregenzerwald and that serve the authentic transmission of history and cultural heritage.
Local writers from the Bregenzerwald communities support the archive in collecting private holdings.
Access to the archive
Access to the archive is possible for the public and the archive material can be viewed as long as it is not subject to special legal protection (see, for example, § 11 Archives Act - Protection Periods).
The holdings of the Bregenzerwald Archive can be queried electronically.
collection
In addition to the documents from the communities in the Bregenz Forest, the collection includes documents from private collections and associations, a collection of photos, interviews and a collection of postcards.
The Bregenzerwald Archive also has a reference library with around 600 books (2019). These are available to the public during the archive's opening hours. The main focus of the library are: Vorarlbergensien and monographs on the various locations.
organization
The Bregenzerwald Archive is supported by Regionalentwicklung Bregenzerwald GmbH. The head of the Bregenzerwald Archive is Katrin Netter.
The content and strategic management of the archive is the responsibility of a board of trustees, which decides on the annual budget, approves the annual financial statements, receives the archivist's semi-annual work reports, creates user regulations and can commission publications and research projects.
The full-time director of the archive is supported by volunteers (Adolf Jackel and Elisabeth Wicke) who are responsible for the inventory of holdings and the entry of the documents into the Vorarlberg archive information system Augias. The documents of the municipalities are also processed on site in the municipalities, where usually one or two people provided by the municipality support the archivist of the Bregenzerwald Archive.
The Bregenzerwald Archive is part of the Vorarlberger Kommunalarchive (AVK) working group.
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '54.1 " N , 9 ° 53' 48.9" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Address: Loco 8 in 6863 Egg. The Bregenzerwald Archive has been in the "Feldkircherhaus" since May 2014. This was built by the later mayor Josef Anton Natter (1859–1943) for his two sisters and completed in 1899. The architect was Anton Gamperle from Feldkirch and the construction was carried out by Johann Bertolini [1] .
- ↑ a b Creation of the Bregenzerwald Archive , website of the Regio Bregenzerwald.
- ^ Bregenzerwaldarchiv , website: Austrian State Archives.
- ^ Bregenzerwaldarchiv , website of the community of Egg.
- ↑ Vorarlberg Archives Act, LGBl. No. 1/2016.
- ^ Tasks , website of the Bregenzerwald region.
- ↑ Home Bregenzerwald Archive , website of the Regio Bregenzerwald.
- ^ Collections , website of the Bregenzerwald region.
- ↑ Archive body , website of Regio Bregenzerwald.