State Main Archive Schwerin

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Service building of the State Main Archives from 1909/11

The State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS), Graf-Schack-Allee 2, is one of two final archives of the state administration of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Due to the size of its holdings, the magazine capacity and the number of employees, it is also the largest archive in the country. The building is a monument in Schwerin .

history

The creation of the state main archive is closely connected with the state development of Mecklenburg . As early as the 15th century, a document archive of the Mecklenburg dukes can be found at Schwerin Castle. In the 16th and 17th centuries, special office archives were created in the residences in Schwerin and Güstrow . After the third main division of Mecklenburg in 1701, the two archives were merged in Schwerin and formed the basis for the main archive. This archive, housed in the former Hofdornitz of Schwerin Palace, was merged with the document archive in 1779 to form the secret and main archive of the Duchy (from 1815 Grand Duchy) Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

In 1835 the company moved to the new college building I (today the State Chancellery ). Then the historical research archive began to open. This development was closely linked to the work of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology and its co-founder Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch (1801–1883), who also headed the archive for many years. The new archive building was moved into in 1911 ( see below ).

The end of the Mecklenburg state state in 1918 led to the takeover of the holdings of the Mecklenburg state estates archive, which had been housed in the Rostock state house until then . In 1935, as a result of the unification of the Free States of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the main archive Neustrelitz with its holdings, including the Ratzeburg tithe register , was added.

After the Second World War , securing and repatriating the archived holdings was an urgent task. In addition, a branch office was set up in Greifswald for the holdings of the Stettin State Archives that were outsourced in the area of ​​Western Pomerania, from which the Greifswald State Archives developed. The dissolution of the state of Mecklenburg and the formation of the Rostock , Schwerin and Neubrandenburg districts in the GDR resulted in extensive file additions from 1952 onwards. From 1965 to October 1990, the institution was called the Schwerin State Archives and was responsible for the Schwerin and Neubrandenburg districts .

After the re-establishment of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 1990, numerous files from the dissolved state and economic bodies as well as former parties and mass organizations came to this archive. With the archive law of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania of July 7, 1997, the state archive administration of the state received its new legal basis. Effective January 1, 2006, the Schwerin State Main Archive was incorporated into the newly established State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation and, together with the Greifswald State Archive, forms the State Archive Department. After several years of evacuation, the main building on Graf-Schack-Allee, which had been refurbished in accordance with historical monuments, could be moved into again in spring 2010 .

building

Today's two-storey front building as an administrative wing from 1911 with a hipped roof and central projection as an entrance was built on the Burgsee according to plans by Paul Ehmig as a purpose-built archive. In terms of design, there was a departure from historicism . The block structure with vertical arrangement does not require any special ornamentation . Behind the front building is the seven-storey storage tower with a surrounding parapet and four corner domes. The building was renovated in 2007/10

Managers / directors and key employees

Heads / Directors

Employee

Publications

Series of publications

  • The holdings of the State Main Archives Schwerin . 3 volumes. 1998-2005.
  1. Volume: Documents and files 1158–1945 . Schwerin, 1998. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  2. Volume: State Archives 1945–1990 . Schwerin, 2002. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  3. Volume: Non-State Archives and Collections . Schwerin, 2005. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  • Finding aids, inventories and small documents from the Schwerin State Main Archive . Volume 1 (1996), ongoing ( evidence in GVK )
  1. Volume: Andreas Röpcke [edit.]: Finding aid of the Mecklenburg ministerial holdings on agriculture, domains and forests 1893–1945 . 2 parts. Schwerin, 1996. (Title references in the GVK: Part 1 , Part 2 )
  2. Volume: Hans-Heinz Schütt: The Mecklenburg prince coat of arms from 1668. Explanations of the origin, content and history of the prince coat of arms . Schwerin, 1997. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  3. Volume: Kerstin Rahn [arrangement]: Relations between Mecklenburg and the states and cities of the Baltic Sea region . (Finding aid of holdings 2.11-2 / I Acta externa. Vol. 1). Schwerin, 1998. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  4. Volume: Peter-Joachim Rakow [arr.]: The holdings of the State Main Archives Schwerin. Vol. 1: Documents and files 1158–1945 . Schwerin, 1998. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  5. Volume: Johann Peter Wurm [arr.]: Relations between Mecklenburg and the Kaiser and Reich, Austria, Brandenburg and Prussia (1450–1888) . (Finding aid of holdings 2.11-2 / I Acta externa. Vol. 2). Schwerin, 2000. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  6. Volume: Hans-Konrad Stein-Stegemann [edit.]: Inventory of the Mecklenburg Chamber of Commerce files . 2 parts.
    1. Part: file inventory . Schwerin, 2001. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
    2. Part: indices . Schwerin, 2001. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  7. Volume: Elsbeth Andre, Brigitta Steinbruch, Karl-Heinz Steinbruch [arr.]: GC Friedrich Lisch (1801–1883). Schwerin estate and letters in foreign institutions . (Finding aid for inventory 10.9-L / 6). Schwerin, 2001. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  8. Volume: Klaus Baudis [arr.]: The holdings of the State Main Archives Schwerin. Vol. 2: State archives 1945–1990 . Schwerin, 2002. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  9. Volume: Dirk Schleinert [arr.]: Relations of Mecklenburg to imperial territories and foreign powers (15th to 19th centuries) . (Finding aid of holdings 2.11-2 / I Acta externa. Vol. 3). Schwerin, 2003. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  10. Volume: Dirk Schleinert [Ed.]: The register of Duke Philip II of Pomerania . Schwerin, 2004. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  11. Volume: Elsbeth Andre [arr.]: The holdings of the State Main Archives Schwerin. Vol. 3: Non-governmental archival material and collections . Schwerin, 2005. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  12. Volume: Antje Koolman [arr.]: Treaties of Mecklenburg with imperial territories and states outside Germany. Regesta on holdings 1.1-12 and 1.1-13 . Schwerin, 2005. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  13. Band: Helga Baier-Schrätze; Gerd Baier [ed.], René Wiese [edit.]: Illumination in the chronicle of Ernst von Kirchberg in the main state archive in Schwerin. A contribution to their art historical research . Schwerin, 2007. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  14. Volume: Sigrid Fritzlar [Hrsg.]: Value and burden of GDR documents in the archives. Results of the symposium of the State Main Archives and the Association of German Archivists on April 25, 2008 in Schwerin . Schwerin, 2008. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  15. Band: Uta Rüchel, Maria Klähn: "... but we had a dream". The New Forum in Schwerin 1989–1994 . Schwerin, 2009. ( Proof of title in the GVK )
  16. Volume: Andreas Röpcke [ed.]: A house for eternity. The Schwerin archive building and his family. Documentation of the international conference on historical archive construction 1872–1918 on June 24 and 25, 2010 in Schwerin . Schwerin, 2011. ( Proof of title in the GVK )

Web links

Commons : State Main Archive Schwerin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Zander : Paul Ehmig's archives in Schwerin full text. PDF. Lecture at a construction conference in 2010. Accessed on September 26, 2019.
  2. ^ Elke Krügener: The state main archive in Schwerin - 100 years in pictures . Archival document for July 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2019.

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 35.2 "  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 50.1"  E