Burgenland State Archives

The Burgenland Provincial Archive is the Burgenland's public archive . It stores the records of the Burgenland provincial government as well as documents, certificates, files, maps, plans, microfilms, graphics and photos on the history of Burgenland. The archive is located in the Landhaus in Eisenstadt .

history

The area of today's Burgenland came to Austria in 1921 . Before that it belonged to Hungary . The archives relevant for today's Burgenland were divided into the Hungarian locations Moson , Sopron and Szombathely for the Vas county . Since these places were in Hungary after the unification with Austria, the need arose in 1921 to build a new archive. In 1922 Paul Eitler was appointed state librarian and entrusted with the duties of state archivist. However, it was not until 1938 that a state archive was formally established. On October 15, 1938, Burgenland was dissolved and divided between the Reichsgaue Niederdonau and Styria . The Reichsgau Archive Niederdonau in Vienna and the Reichsgau Archive in Graz were then responsible for archiving . As a branch of the Reichsgau Archive Niederdonau, the Eisenstadt branch archive was founded, which, under the supervision of the Reichsgau archive, looked after the archives for the former districts of Neusiedl am See, Eisenstadt, Mattersburg and Oberpullendorf.

From 1938 to 1994 the state archive was located in the Leinnerhaus . The state archive is now located in an extension to the country house in Eisenstadt, which was completed in 1970 and is part of the main section “State archive and state library” within Department 7 (“Culture, Science and Archive”) of the Burgenland state government.

Holdings of the Burgenland State Archives

Family and rulership archives

They include a smaller part of the aristocracy's family and rulership archives from the ruling suburbs and the residences of the Burgenland-western Hungary area from several centuries. The majority of the family and manorial archives are still with the owners of the archives (noble families). In detail, the holdings of the State Archives are the Batthyány Family Archive Pinkafeld , the Batthyány Family Archive Schlaining , the Batthyány Family Archive Kittsee , the Niczky Family Archive and the Archives of the Klostermarienberg Monastery .

City and community archives

With a few exceptions, the city and municipality archives contain the historically valuable documents and files of the Burgenland municipalities. The holdings have been combined into the municipal archives North, Middle and South.

Collections organized by subject

The document collection consists partly of originals, partly of photographic reproductions. Many original documents from the Burgenland area are in the Hungarian State Archives in Budapest. The oldest original document is from 1476. The most recent documents are from the 20th century. The collection of documents includes privileges, awards, mandates and documents of private content such as birth letters and marriage contracts.

Another part of the thematically arranged collections are the land registers and mountain books . Urbare are delivering directories of individual farms or whole communities to the basic rule as instruments of stately administration to the year 1848 in which the manors were dissolved. The Urbare to a certain extent united the land register and tax register. In the inventory of the land register, for example, there is the document “Abolition of Abuses with regard to the Services of Subjects by Maria Theresa” from 1768. Mountain books are the tax registers of vineyard parcels. The name Bergbuch comes from the fact that in earlier centuries vineyards only existed on slopes, i.e. on vineyards. The Burgenland State Archives only have individual land records and mountain books from today's Burgenland, the rest is still in the archives of the former rulers.

The manuscript collection is a collection of archival material that so far could not be classified in any of the other collections. There are music aliases, plays, edicts, ordinances, circulars and various private documents. The manuscript collection includes, for example, the pastorel aria by the composer Michael Haydn .

The collection of guild archives consists of two parts: "Guild Archives of Burgenland" and "Guild Archives of the Free City of Eisenstadt". The Burgenland guild archive only contains individual items and is therefore not a closed collection. The guild archive of the free city of Eisenstadt includes various archives of the " royal free city " of Eisenstadt. Archives of the "princely area" of Eisenstadt are not included.

Unprinted manuscripts and material collections from the thematically arranged collections are manuscripts, texts and translations of lectures from the time of the new federal state of Burgenland (from 1921) as well as Burgenland from the interwar period and during the Nazi era and contains, for example, the document “Report on the Güssing Feud in 'Continuatio Vindobonensis' by Otto Aull ”and“ The extended family of the Wutzelhofer by Herbert Wutzelhofer ”.

In the maps and plans collection of the National Archives are approximately 45,000 maps and plans. These are both printed and hand-drawn individual maps and plans with a focus on Burgenland and its sub-areas. The maps in the map collection are on a scale of 1: 50,000 to 1: 200,000. The collection of plans is divided into the categories of cadastral surveying, commissioning plans, building age plans, settlement form plans, land register plans, city plans and others.

The graphic collection contains around 300 pictures from the 16th to the 19th century with the subjects of views, costumes and scenes from popular life. Various techniques such as copperplate engravings, steel engravings, lithographs, watercolors and drawings are represented. The photo collection is also one of the thematically organized collections.

Central Jewish Archives of the Province of Burgenland

The central Jewish archive contains documents from the former Jewish communities of Deutschkreutz , Eisenstadt , Frauenkirchen , Gattendorf , Güssing , Kittsee , Kobersdorf , Lackenbach , Mattersburg (Mattersdorf) , Rechnitz and Stadtschlaining . Archived are mainly documents on tax and property matters and cultural modalities .

Personal papers and individual archives

The archive's bequests are private collections. The individual archives include, for example, company archives and school archives. The largest single archive is the works archive of "Bergbau AG" from Schlaining.

State government archive and state parliament archive

File holdings of the departments of the Burgenland Provincial Government and the Burgenland Provincial Parliament since 1921 with the exception of documents from the Nazi era, in which today's Burgenland was divided into the Reichsgaue Niederdonau and Styria and which is therefore kept in the Lower Austrian and Styrian Provincial Archives. Access to these files is restricted by a 50-year archive block for historical holdings.

Further stocks

Microfilm collection

Publications of the Burgenland State Archives

Burgenland homeland sheets , quarterly publication on local history in Burgenland (online at ZOBODAT.at ).

Burgenland research

Country topography

Burgenland regional bibliography

Burgenland document book

Web links

Burgenland State Archives. The country's memory - securing our identity. In: burgenland.at, homepage of the Burgenland state government.

Individual evidence

^ History of the Burgenland Provincial Archives. In: burgenland.at, homepage of the Burgenland state government. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
^ Research archive . Family and rulership archives. In: burgenland.at, homepage of the Burgenland state government. Retrieved January 10, 2020 (in the upper third of the website).
↑ ^a ^b State Archives. Stocks. Research archive. In: burgenland.at, homepage of the Burgenland state government. Retrieved September 13, 2015 .
^ Research archive . Central Jewish Archives of Burgenland. In: burgenland.at, homepage of the Burgenland state government. Retrieved January 10, 2020 (around the middle of the website).
^ A X-2 - Inventory of the works archive of SZALONAKER BERGBAU AG, Stadtschlaining, Burgenland. (PDF) In: burgenland.at, homepage of the Burgenland state government. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
^ Holdings of the State Archives - overview. In: burgenland.at, homepage of the Burgenland state government. Retrieved September 13, 2015 .

[1] History of the Burgenland Provincial Archives. In: burgenland.at, homepage of the Burgenland state government. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .

[2] Research archive . Family and rulership archives. In: burgenland.at, homepage of the Burgenland state government. Retrieved January 10, 2020 (in the upper third of the website).

[forschungsarchiv-3] State Archives. Stocks. Research archive. In: burgenland.at, homepage of the Burgenland state government. Retrieved September 13, 2015 .

[4] Research archive . Central Jewish Archives of Burgenland. In: burgenland.at, homepage of the Burgenland state government. Retrieved January 10, 2020 (around the middle of the website).

[5] A X-2 - Inventory of the works archive of SZALONAKER BERGBAU AG, Stadtschlaining, Burgenland. (PDF) In: burgenland.at, homepage of the Burgenland state government. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .

[6] Holdings of the State Archives - overview. In: burgenland.at, homepage of the Burgenland state government. Retrieved September 13, 2015 .