Hessian State Archive Darmstadt

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Hessian State Archive Darmstadt

Coat of arms of Hesse.svg
State level State of Hesse
position State Archives
legal form authority
Supervisory authority Hessian State Archives
founding circa 1918
Headquarters Darmstadt
Servants 80 2012
Web presence [1]
House of History
House of History at night
Former court and state theater (1917)

The Hessian State Archives Darmstadt is one of the departments of the Hessian State Archives and is based in Darmstadt on Karolinenplatz . In addition to the Hessian Main State Archive Wiesbaden and the Hessian State Archive Marburg, it serves as a regional archive . The Hessian State Archive Darmstadt is responsible for southern and parts of central Hesse.

history

The Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt emerged from the registry of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , which was set up in the 16th century and which developed into the court and state archive of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . From 1725 it was housed in the former residential palace of the landgraves and grand dukes in Darmstadt . With the change in the forms of government, after 1918 it became the “Hessian State Archive” of the People's State of Hesse . Like all of Darmstadt's inner city, the castle was badly hit in the bombing of Darmstadt in September 1944 and suffered considerable losses. In the course of the establishment of the state of Hesse , the archive became the regional state archive for the administrative district of Darmstadt in 1946 . Since January 1, 2018, the Darmstadt State Archive has been a department of the Hessian State Archive.

Stocks

Overall, the records of the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt cover a period from the Carolingian era to the present. In the meantime, not only are written certificates preserved, but also sound and electronic data carriers. In detail it concerns

In 2014 the archive had 627 users with 2,146 user days.

From the time before 1945, the Darmstadt State Archives keep the records of the authorities of the Landgraviate, the later Grand Duchy and the subsequent People's State of Hesse and its provinces of Starkenburg , Upper Hesse and Rheinhessen from 1820 to 1945. In addition, there are holdings from territories of the Old Reich that were absorbed in Hesse-Darmstadt are, such as B. Knighthood and Friedberg Castle , Counties Schlitz , Solms -Rödelheim, Hanau-Lichtenberg , Erbach-Schönberg and parts of territories that have only partially fallen to Hessen-Darmstadt, such. B. Electorate of Mainz , Diocese of Worms , Middle and Upper Rhine Imperial Knighthood.

In addition to the archives of various class lords and aristocratic families kept in the Darmstadt State Archives, there are important additions to the state tradition . B. the family von Riedesel , Dalberg , Pretlack , Wolff von Todenwarth , Wurmser von Vendenheim , also numerous bequests , for example from Heinrich von Gagern , Karl du Bos du Thil , Reinhard von Dalwigk , Carl Ulrich , Wilhelm Leuschner and Ludwig Bergsträsser .

The letters and collections kept in the Grand Ducal House and Family Archives reflect the dynastic ties between the House of Hessen-Darmstadt and the European nobility.

Today authorities and courts of the state of Hesse and federal authorities in the administrative district of Darmstadt deliver their documents to be archived to the Hessian State Archive in Darmstadt. Writings from parties, associations and clubs as well as historical documentation were and are being archived.

The library contains around 130,000 volumes as well as magazines and newspapers on the special collection area of ​​South Hesse regional studies.

Finding aids

The holdings of the State Archives can be found in the Arcinsys database, which is accessible online and in which more than 1.8 million units of description can be researched. Many archive materials are available in digitized form, including maps, posters and photos.

There is also an overview of the holdings printed in 1997.

Further freely accessible finding aids and aids are provided on the spot. The results of the archival work were also published in the series " Repertories of the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt" (more than 60 volumes).

House of History

Since 1993, when the "Moller-Bau", the former court and state theater, was rebuilt as a purpose-built archive building, have been forming there

together under one roof the house of history .

In 1817 Georg Moller built the theater in a classical style. It was rebuilt in 1879 and destroyed in the Second World War. The few historical rooms that have returned to their original state, such as the Karolinensaal, are regularly used by the public for lectures and other cultural events.

In 2012, the State Archives were visited by 601 users (2010: 718; 2011: 655) with a total of 2,054 user days (2010: 2,249; 2011: 2,236).

other activities

  • The archive educational offer is aimed specifically at teachers and students. It introduces the use of an archive and offers advanced training seminars. The document folders “History in the Archive”, designed for archival education, process sources in facsimile editions and comment on them.
  • The State Archive regularly shows exhibitions that are accompanied by a scientific, archive-educational framework program.
  • Regular tours of the State Archives are offered.
  • The State Archives offer user seminars where z. Example is introduced to working with Arcinsys.
  • The journal “Archive for Hessian History” , which has been published since 1834, is published in the Hessian State Archive in Darmstadt with the Historical Association for Hesse .
  • The Historical Commission for Hesse publishes historical sources and monographs .
  • The State Archives take part in the Open Monument Day together with the other institutions in the House of History.

literature

  • Archive news from Hessen , Marburg, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt 2001 ff.
  • The holdings of the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt . Darmstadt 1997.
  • Georg Fink: History of the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt . Darmstadt 1925.
  • Eva Haberkorn: Archive history of Darmstadt first hand. From the memories of the archive director Dr. Ludwig Clemm . In: Archivnachrichten aus Hessen 16/2 (2016), pp. 30–32.
  • Activity reports from the Hessian State Archives .
  • From the court theater to the house of history . Darmstadt 1994.

See also

Web links

State Archives

Related institutions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv et al .: Activity report of the Hessian State Archives 2012 . June 2013, p. 42. (Including trainees)
  2. ↑ Law on the reorganization of archives and the right to deposit copies . In: Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . No. 24 , 2012, ISSN  0342-3557 , p. 458-463 (on- line ).
  3. ↑ Activity report of the Hessian State Archives 2014, p. 37ff.
  4. ↑ Activity reports of the Hessian State Archives 2010–2012.

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 31.5 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 18.5 ″  E