District archive Warendorf
| District archive Warendorf
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| Archive type | Municipal Archives |
| place | Warendorf |
| Visitor address | Waldenburger Strasse 2, 48231 Warendorf |
| founding | 1967 |
| scope | about 2,500 running meters |
| Age of the archive material | 1238 - today |
| ISIL | DE-2238 (Warendorf district archive) |
| carrier | Warendorf district |
| Organizational form | Subject area |
| Website | Kreis-warendorf.de |
The Warendorf district archive is the archive of the Warendorf district and 12 of its 13 municipalities.
It was founded in 1967 and was located in Liesborn Abbey until 1982 . The district archive has been located in the district building in Warendorf since 1982 .
History and jurisdiction
General
The district archive was founded in May 1967 as an archive for the Beckum district on the initiative of the "Association for the History of the Beckum District eV". The establishment was decided on March 21, 1966 in the culture committee of the Beckum district and approved by the district council on December 14, 1966 . In June of the same year the district archive started its work. It was housed in temporary rooms in the south wing of Liesborn Abbey, which, however, did not allow larger files to be taken over due to lack of space. At the beginning of 1972, the district archive changed premises within the abbey and moved to the ground floor.
The documents of the old district of Warendorf were looked after by the Warendorf City Archives until the municipal reorganization in 1975.
When the municipal reorganization was carried out on January 1, 1975 , the district documents of the old Beckum and Warendorf districts were stored centrally in the Liesborn Abbey along with the Beckum and Warendorf districts.
In May 1978 there was heavy rainfall, which put the archive in Liesborn Abbey 30–40 cm under water.
With the construction of the new district house in Warendorf in 1982, the Warendorf district archive expanded considerably. Instead of the total of 400 m² in Liesborn , the district archive now has more than 1,300 m². The later installation of a rolling rack system increased the storage capacity significantly.
In 2001 the archive took its first steps towards digitization. Until then, the individual archive units and library holdings were managed using index cards and analog finding aids. Since then, archives and library items have been recorded digitally and can also be researched online.
In summer 2017 the reading room of the district archive was rebuilt and renovated.
Today, the Warendorf district archive is responsible for the Warendorf district administration and its legal predecessors on the one hand, and 12 of the 13 towns and communities in the Warendorf district on the other. The city of Telgte alone operates its own archive .
District central archive
Since 1972, the Warendorf district archive has been responsible not only for the district tradition, but also for looking after the documents of some district municipalities. In the Beckum district, a decision was made in favor of a centralized archive in which all archive documents of the participating cities and municipalities are centrally stored, processed and made available as deposits. The participating cities and municipalities pay a flat rate to the Warendorf district, which is calculated per inhabitant of the respective municipality.
In 1972 the district archive took over the documents from the cities of Oelde and Neubeckum and the Wadersloh office , in 1973 from the Vorhelm office , and from the city of Ahlen and the communities of Everswinkel and Ostbevern in 1976 . The cities of Beckum and Sassenberg followed in 1977, the municipality of Beelen in 1978 and the city of Warendorf in 1986. The district archive has also been working with the cities of Sendenhorst and Drensteinfurt since 2002 . Today the city and community archives of Oelde, Ostbevern, Sassenberg, Warendorf, Beckum, Ahlen, Ennigerloh , Drensteinfurt, Sendenhorst, Wadersloh, Everswinkel and Beelen belong to the district central archive Warendorf.
In a contract between these 12 municipalities and the Warendorf district, responsibility was assigned to the Warendorf district in return for payment of the fee in accordance with Section 10 (2) point 2 of the North Rhine-Westphalian Archives Act (ArchivG NRW) .
Archive manager
- 1967–1999: Siegfried Schmieder
- 1999 to around 2002: Johann Zilien
- 2003–2006: Jochen Rath
- 2006–2014: Mark Steinert
- 2014–2017: Thomas Brakmann
- since 2017: Knut Langewand
Stocks
In total, there are around 800 years of district history in the Warendorf district archive. The oldest document in the district archive dates back to 1238 and comes from Beckum. In addition to written records in the form of files, the Warendorf district archive has a large collection of photos from all cities and municipalities and an extensive collection of posters.
Civil status register
As the district central archive, the Warendorf district archive has had complete records of civil status records in its holdings in accordance with the deadlines of the Civil Status Act since 2009 . The holdings of civil status registers are the most widely used source of the district archive.
Newspapers
The Warendorf district archive archives all regional newspapers that appear in the Warendorf district. These include u. a. “ Die Glocke ”, “ Westfälische Nachrichten ” and “Dreingau-Zeitung”. The stock of historical newspapers goes back to the 18th century. In some cases, the Warendorf district archive also has national newspapers.
Non-official documents
The Warendorf district archive also takes on personal papers and collections.
The bequests and collections must be related to the archives and there must be a public interest or sustainable value for science and research so that they can be included in the Warendorf district archive.
So far there are over 100 estates and collections, including a. by Augustin Wibbelt and the former Brinkhaus weaving mill.
Archive library
With around 30,000 titles, the library of the Warendorf District Archives is the largest historical library in the district. It collects the local, district and regional historical literature on the Warendorf district, the old Beckum and Warendorf districts as well as the towns and communities belonging to the district.
use
The use of the archives of the District Archives Warendorf is open to all people in accordance with the regulations of the North Rhine-Westphalian Archives Act. Use in the Warendorf district archive is free of charge; prior registration during opening times is not required.
The Warendorf district archive has regulated more precise specifications for use in a usage regulation.
Potential users can find research options on the NRW archive portal.
User numbers
Publications
The district archive itself publishes a series of publications. Under the title "Small writings from the district archive", smaller scientific treatises on topics related to district and local history are regularly published:
- Volume 1: The knights in medieval Vellern. (Wilhelm Laukemper), 2016
- Volume 2: Apollinaris Collector (1770-1832). His work as dean in Freckenhorst between 1806 and 1832. (Johannes Nowak), 2018
- Volume 3: Decision-making cultures around 1900 - Liesborn, Benteler, Neubeckum. (Philip Lenser / Jan Stalder / Knut Langewand), 2020
Web links
- District archive Warendorf on the website of the district Warendorf
- Library of the district archive on the website of the Warendorf city library
- District archive Warendorf on archives in North Rhine-Westphalia
Individual evidence
- ^ KAW, Stadt Beckum P, No. 51.
- ↑ KAW, Beckum District P, No. 19.
- ↑ a b c Warendorf district (ed.): Preserving yesterday and today for tomorrow . tape 20 , 1988.
- ↑ KAW, Stadt Beckum D, No. 658.
- ↑ The oldest document in the district archive. Retrieved August 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Civil status register . Retrieved May 26, 2017 .
- ↑ The largest historical library in the Warendorf district. Retrieved August 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Annual financial statements of the Warendorf district, 2017ff.
Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 28.5 ″ N , 7 ° 59 ′ 9.3 ″ E