Historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne

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Historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne

Listed archive building on Gereonsstrasse / corner of Börsenplatz
Listed archive building on Gereonsstrasse / corner of Börsenplatz
Archive type Church archive
Coordinates 50 ° 56 '34.9 "  N , 6 ° 56' 58.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '34.9 "  N , 6 ° 56' 58.7"  E
place Cologne
Visitor address Gereonstr. 2-4, 50670 Cologne
founding 1921
scope 6500 meters of shelf
Age of the archive material 10th century - today
ISIL DE-2113
carrier Archdiocese of Cologne
Website www.erzbistum-koeln.de/kultur_und_bildung/historisches-archiv/

The historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne ( Sigle : AEK, ISIL DE-2113 ) is a memorial institution in Cologne that archives the documents of the Cologne diocese administration and other church organizations in the area of ​​the diocese .

The holdings also include bequests and collections. The archive houses holdings totaling 6500 meters of shelves , including around 5300 documents; the oldest document is a property transfer from January 29, 942. With its underground extension from 2007, the AEK offers 20 kilometers of shelf space, making it one of the largest archives in Germany according to its own statements.

organization

The director of the AEK has been the historian and archivist Ulrich Helbach , who has worked there since 1989. Joachim Oepen is the deputy head .

The archive can be used by researchers and interested persons; a reading room offers 20 places.

history

The archive was founded in 1921 by the Archbishop of Cologne, Karl Joseph Cardinal Schulte, as an institution for historical research. First of all, the records of the ecclesiastical administration from before 1801 - the year the old archbishopric was dissolved during secularization - were included in the inventory.

Before the Second World War, documents, registers and files of the Vicariate General and archives of the parishes in downtown Cologne were added.

In 1958 the AEK moved into a new building complex of the archdiocese in Cologne's Altstadt-Nord district. Newer files from the 20th century were added to the holdings, and since the 1980s the archives of other Catholic institutions, clubs and associations.

In 1984 the archive added his first architectural estate to its holdings ( Alfons Leitl ), followed by those of Rudolf Schwarz , Fritz Schaller and others. The connection arises from the church building activity in the post-war period, which had a significant impact on the overall work of many architects of this era.

As part of the archbishopric's savings concept (“Future Today”), which has been developed since 2003, two out of five positions for academic staff have been deleted from the historical archive and total expenditure has been cut by 20 percent.

After the collapse of the city archive in March 2009 (see Historical Archive of the City of Cologne ), the AEK made three kilometers of shelves available for rescued stocks at short notice and, as the asylum archive, took over the storage of the 60,000 - undamaged - parchment documents.

The editorial team of the church archives internet portal (www.kirchliche-archive.de) is located at the AEK.

building

entrance

The building complex with today's archive building at Gereonstrasse 2-4 was built between 1956 and 1958 according to plans by the architects Hans Schumacher and Willy Weyres . It consists of the archbishop's house, the seminary, the seminary church of St. Petrus Canisius and the administrative buildings that were initially used by the cathedral and diocesan library.

The three-storey, angular archive administration building with brick facade and pitched roofs is closed off to the west by an eight-storey building section, the “book tower”, a flat-roofed reinforced concrete skeleton building with brick and glass block infills .

The buildings have been listed since June 19, 1992 and have been included in the list of architectural monuments of the city of Cologne under the number 6532 .

Modern fire protection equipment in the underground extension

From 2005 to 2007, according to plans by the Orend architects and a budget of almost 8 million euros, a three-storey underground extension, invisible from the outside, of 2,200 square meters of new space was built below and next to the old building, which with an additional 15 kilometers of shelf space offers spatial prospects for the next 30 years should offer. At the same time, the listed old building was renovated and a new staircase with a lift was added for better access to the tower and underground parts of the building, and the reading room on the upper floor was equipped with 20 guest workstations.

In 2015, artist Monika Bartholomé added a minimalist wall relief made of thin rods to the curved staircase from the 1950s . a. reflect the archival reduction of documents to what is archivable.

Holdings (selection)

Archdiocese, Vicariate General

  • Documents from the area of ​​the Archdiocese of Cologne (884 pieces, 1230–1910)
  • Files and official books of the old Vicariate General, 120 meters of shelf, 16. – 19. Century
  • (Napoleonic) Diocese of Aachen , 1801–1821 (10 shelf meters., 1782–1825)
  • Holdings of the central registry in the Vicariate General since 1825, 1,800 meters of shelf
  • Metropolitan chapter, 55 meters of shelf space, 18th century-1955
  • Archbishop's seminary , 45 shelf meters, 1390–1990
    Medieval lead vessel with bones (relics) from the monastery church Groß-St-Martin

Catholic organizations, associations, clubs

Parish Archives

  • Cathedral archive and Cologne parish archives, with parts of the Cologne monastery and monastery archives; approx. 4000 documents, 280 meters of shelf, 942-20. Century
  • Church books, approx. 1050 pieces, late 16th to 20th centuries. Century

Estates

Collections

  • Seal collection Beissel , Siegel Collection Ewald , General Siegel collection (including approximately 46,000 seal impressions and fonts)
  • Collection of personalia (press clippings, death notes on persons in the church service, especially the 19th and 20th centuries)
  • Roth Collection - collection of notes with evidence of job holders in the Cologne collegiate, monastery and parish churches from the 10th to 19th centuries, compiled by the historian Hermann Heinrich Roth; 2.2 shelf meters, finding aid, 45 VE. (Evidence of the staff of Cologne monasteries, monasteries, parishes from the 10th to 19th centuries.)

Publications

  • Studies on Cologne Church History, series of publications, 1952ff (founded by archive director Robert Haaß ), 43 volumes (as of 2016)

Catalogs and booklets for exhibitions

  • Josef van Elten: Pro hominibus constitutus . Memorial exhibition of the Historical Archives of the Archdiocese of Cologne on the 100th birthday of Josef Cardinal Frings on February 6, 1987. Cologne 1987.
  • Karl-Heinz Tekath, Juan Antonio Cervelló-Margalef, Wolfgang Schmitz : 250 years of the Cologne seminary (1738-1988) . Exhibition from May 8th to June 3rd, 1988 in the Diocesan Library in Cologne. Cologne 1988.
  • In obsequium Christi . Memorial exhibition of the Historical Archives of the Archdiocese of Cologne on the 50th anniversary of the death of Karl Joseph Cardinal Schulte on March 10, 1991. Cologne 1991.
  • Josef van Elten, Joachim Oepen: Cologne archbishops in conflict with the Prussian state. Clemens August Freiherr Droste zu Vischering († 1845). Paulus Cardinal Melchers († 1895) . Memorial exhibition of the Historical Archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Cologne 1995.
  • Toni Diederich, Ulrich Helbach and Joachim Oepen: Christians on the Rhine. Evidence of the Cologne church history from two millennia . Exhibition of the Historical Archives of the Archdiocese of Cologne on the occasion of the Holy Year 2000 in the Archbishop's Diocesan and Cathedral Library. Cologne 2000.
  • Secure tradition . The historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne in the service of church and culture. Cologne 2004.
  • Ulrich Helbach, Joachim Oepen and Wolfgang Schmitz: Iustitia et Caritas . Memorial exhibition of the historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne on the 100th birthday of Joseph Cardinal Höffner. Cologne 2007.

literature

  • Toni Diederich: The historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Overview of its history, tasks and holdings . In: Studies on Cologne Church History . tape 31 . Franz Schmitt Verlag, Siegburg 1998, ISBN 3-87710-187-9 .

Web links

Commons : Historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c On the history of the historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne. (No longer available online.) Archdiocese of Cologne, archived from the original on July 7, 2017 ; accessed on September 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erzbistum-koeln.de
  2. ↑ a b c Cologne: Meisner inaugurates the new archive building. The memory of the archdiocese. In: Domradio. October 9, 2007, accessed September 17, 2017 .
  3. ^ Ulrich Helbach , Britt Sattler: The historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne . In: M: AI - Museum for Architecture and Engineering in North Rhine-Westphalia eV & AFR - Architecture Forum Rhineland eV (Ed.): Architecture in archives - memory of generations from paper and bytes . Cologne, Gelsenkirchen 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038903-0 , p. 96-101 .
  4. ^ A b c Mathias Pesch: Archdiocese is expanding its archive underground. In: ksta.de. March 14, 2006, accessed September 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Markus Peters: Search for missing persons in Cologne even at night - archbishopric archives help with rescue. Minute of silence in the city council. In: Domradio. March 10, 2009. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne stores the parchment documents of the city archive. In: augias.net. March 17, 2009. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Imprint
  8. ↑ Complete list of the monuments in Cologne as of May 22, 2015. City of Cologne, May 22, 2015, accessed on September 17, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Birgitt Schippers, Alexander Foxius: Report: Culture meets Church - Wall signs in the historical archive. In: Domradio. September 23, 2015, accessed September 17, 2017 .