Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore

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Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore
Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore

Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore

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place Kaiserslautern
Architectural style Neo renaissance
Construction year 1900

The Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore is a research facility in Kaiserslautern sponsored by the Palatinate District Association .

The institute emerged from the Heimatstelle Pfalz founded in 1953 , which in turn was the successor to the Mittelstelle Saarpfalz Compatriots inside and outside of the Saarpfälzisches Institut für Landes- und Volksforschung , founded in 1936 . It deals with the entire history of the Palatinate , with a focus on the history of migration in the Palatinate, the more recent history of the Palatinate and house and castle research . Several archives are located in the institute, including the Palatinate field name archive, a picture archive and the Galicia-German home archive. An emigrant register opens up around 600,000 migration movements.

The Palatinate Library is organizationally attached to the institute . The institute is also home to the office for the development of the dictionary of the German winegrowing language , which also looks after the archive of the Palatinate dictionary .

The institute organizes exhibitions, lecture series and conferences on the main topics. The research results are published in several publication series, to which there are also individual publications:

  • Palatine profiles
  • Contributions to the history of the Palatinate
  • Contributions to the Palatinate folklore
  • Writings on the history of migration in the Palatinate
  • Contributions to the population history of the Palatinate

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As a result of the institute's castle research published: Jürgen Keddigkeit , Ulrich Burkhart, Karl Scherer, Alexander Thon, Rolf Übel : Palatinate Burgenlexikon. So far 4 volumes. Kaiserslautern 1999-2007

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 55.75 "  N , 7 ° 46 ′ 16.35"  E