Evangelical Church Archive Kaufbeuren
The Protestant church archive Kaufbeuren is since the Reformation existing church archives , which focuses the Reformation history of the city Kaufbeuren forms. It is in possession of numerous historical documents, certificates and books not only on church history, but also on the city's political history since the city archives were lost in the 19th century. The archive is currently being looked after on a voluntary basis by the archivist and city councilor Helga Ilgenfritz.
history
The archive was created in its current form in 1957 and has been the most important archive in Kaufbeuren since the losses that the Kaufbeuren city archive suffered due to the sale of a large part of its holdings as waste paper in the 1840s. In addition, there is a Catholic parish archive and a monastery archive, which only keep their own documents. Since the Protestant church archive has some originals of important general historical sources that also deal with the political areas of the Free Imperial City of Kaufbeuren at the level of the Reich, the regional church archive in Nuremberg decided in 1959 that the holdings, in contrast to the usual centralization efforts, should remain in Kaufbeuren .
Secular existence
The oldest document in the collection is a written declaration (so-called reverse letter ) from 1454. There are also 63 volumes with copies, documents and letters from the 16th and 17th centuries, bound in pigskin, as well as official documents on city politics and matrimonial jurisdiction . Chronicles are also part of the archive. One of them is by Martin Geirhalder (1565–1598), the oldest chronicler of Kaufbeuren. More important, however, is the three-volume collection of their noble merchandise and stories from HR Reichs freyen Statt Kauffbeuren , written in the 18th century by the imperial city office director Wolfgang Ludwig Hörmann von und zu Gutenberg . The work is a chronological representation of the city's history from 843 to 1739. It is of great importance because it provides references to old sources that were lost during the mediatization of Kaufbeuren at the beginning of the 19th century. In addition to a historical city view of Kaufbeuren from 1580 by Caspar Sichelbein the Elder, there is also a copy of Schedel's World Chronicle from 1493. The archive also contains numerous volumes with correspondence and documents on both the Swabian district convention and the Perpetual Diet in Regensburg, 1663 to 1806.
Church inventory
Noteworthy are the minutes of the Kaufbeurer Religious Discussion from 1525, which, after the first wave of the Reformation, was supposed to give the population clarity in church matters. Eight letters from Emperor Charles V on the Augsburg Interim date from 1548 . The inventory of matriculation books goes back to 1632. In a church music department there is sheet music from Georg Philipp Telemann, among others . Particularly noteworthy is the so-called Schramm Bible , in which every free space next to the columns, with the exception of the parts unimportant for sermons, is personally commented by the pastor in the smallest script in Latin. The book shows fragments with the original handwriting of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon glued to the inside of the cover . The archive's holdings also include two books of coats of arms , of particular Haraldic importance, the first of which was begun in 1604 and lists the coats of arms of the donors who supported the construction of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Kaufbeur . The second book lists the donors who made the construction of the Gottesackerkirche possible in the 19th century. A valuable handwritten agendum , covered with silver, dates from 1771 and was donated to a foundation by the Augsburg draftsman Augustin Heckel as thanks for a rich inheritance.
literature
- General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives: Archives in Bavaria - articles, lectures, reports, communications . Volume 5, Munich 2009, ISSN 1618-4777
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrea Schwarz, Peter Halicska, Helga Ilgenfritz: Church archive maintenance using the example of the Evangelical Church Archive in Kaufbeuren . In: Archives in Bavaria , Volume 5, Munich 2009, pp. 157 ff.
- ^ Website of the Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
- ↑ Reinhard Schwarz in: Handbook of the history of the Protestant Church in Bavaria , Volume 1, St. Ottilien 2002, p. 283 f.
- ↑ Andrea Schwarz, Peter Halicska, Helga Ilgenfritz: Church archive maintenance using the example of the Evangelical Church Archive in Kaufbeuren . In: Archives in Bavaria , Volume 5, Munich 2009, pp. 170 ff.
Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 37.8 ″ N , 10 ° 37 ′ 24 ″ E