State Church Archive Stuttgart
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| Archive type | Church archive |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 43 '46 " N , 9 ° 8' 29" E |
| place | Balinger Str. 33/1, 70567 Stuttgart |
| ISIL | DE-1986 (State Church Archive Stuttgart) |
| carrier | Evangelical Church in Württemberg |
| Organizational form | Church (organization) |
| Website | www.archiv.elk-wue.de |
The State Church Archive Stuttgart (abbreviation: LKAS ) is the central archive of the Evangelical State Church in Württemberg . The archive exercises specialist supervision over the archives and archive maintenance in the regional church. The director is Norbert Haag . The archive is located at Balinger Strasse 33/1 in Stuttgart-Möhringen . The regional church archive is also the seat of the office of the Verein für Württembergische Kirchengeschichte eV as well as the departments of church inventory, museum collection and commissioning of Württemberg church history.
history
The regional church archive owes its existence to the separation between state and church, in the wake of which the consistory's tradition was increased through an agreement between the Ministry of Culture and the Evangelical Upper Church Council of September 8, 1925. The anti-church stance of the party and the state after 1933 ultimately made the establishment of a regional church archive indispensable, especially for the defense of church legal claims. The archive, initially housed in the registry in the office building of the Oberkirchenrat in Stuttgart, the former Thurn and Taxis Post Office (Alter Postplatz 4), was initially only looked after on a part-time basis, initially by the Stuttgart pastor Julius Rauscher (1933-1936), then by senior student council i. R. Robert Geiges (1936-1942). The stocks relocated during the Second World War and therefore rescued with a few exceptions were initially housed in the building of the Prelature Ludwigsburg after their retrieval and there by Pastor Gustav Bossert the Elder. J. took care of them before the former State Archives Director Hermann Haering, who had been responsible for the archives of the regional church on an honorary basis since November 1947, managed to accommodate them in the rooms of Ludwigsburg Palace . In 1952, archivist Heinrich Gürsching was the first to fill the state church archives with full-time staff.
After his death in 1955, Gerhard Schäfer took over the management of the regional church archive, which he held until his retirement in 1988. His successor was the church historian and archivist Hermann Ehmer . After the premises in the service building of the Evangelical High Church Council in Gänsheidestrasse, which they moved into in 1957, became too small, in 2002 the opportunity arose to move into the much larger building of the former printing house of the German Bible Society in Stuttgart-Möhringen together with the regional church central library . Since Ehmer retired in 2007, the historian and archivist Norbert Haag has headed the regional church archive.
Stocks
The regional church archive is responsible for the documents of the regional synod and the higher church council, for other offices of the regional church administration, for ecclesiastical bodies and institutions in the area of the Württemberg regional church as well as for the documents in parish and deanery offices. In addition, bequests and collections from private individuals or Protestant works and associations are archived. Church registers are available online via the Archion church register portal and can be viewed on microfilms in the archive's reading room. The museum collection in the regional church archive keeps museum objects of ecclesiastical and private piety.
literature
- Gerhard Schäfer : State Church Archive Stuttgart. Overview of the holdings and inventory of the general church files (inventories of the non-state archives in Baden-Württemberg; 16). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1972.
- Hermann Ehmer : The State Church Archive Stuttgart in the Second World War. A contribution to the history of the Württemberg archives. In: Wolfgang Schmierer [among others] (Ed.): From South West German History. Festschrift Hans-Martin Maurer. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1994, pp. 736-749.
Web links
- Website of the State Church Archives Stuttgart
- Archival finding aids on Württemberg Church History Online
- The search in church registers of the State Church Archives Stuttgart, church register portal ARCHION.
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the LKA | Regional church archive. Retrieved November 16, 2018 .
- ↑ State Church Archive Stuttgart (Ed.): Archive brochure of the State Church Archive Stuttgart . Stuttgart 2014, p. 3, 16 .