List of archives and libraries in the Kitzingen district
The list of archives and libraries in the Kitzingen district contains the institutions that take care of the storage, preservation and utilization of archival material and other media in the Kitzingen district in Lower Franconia . Although the district hardly has any nationally significant archives and libraries , there are still a large number of memory institutions .
overview
The archives and libraries of the district have forerunners in the early modern period and the Middle Ages . The archives and libraries developed from the city registries and the stately chancellery archives. The library of the Monastery of Münsterschwarzach was particularly significant , which was built at the time of Abbot Egbert in the 11th century and was then either decimated by warlike destruction in the following centuries or supplemented by further books by the abbots in office.
The cities also collected their archival material on a much smaller scale . There was no predetermined order for these early archives. Instead, the quality of the maintenance of the respective archive depended on the personalities and interests of the town clerks . The oldest documents that have survived to this day date back to the 14th century. Early archives were mostly in the Town Hall housed the city. For example, the northwest tower of the town hall can already be used as an archive room for Marktbreit before the end of the Old Kingdom.
During the German Peasants' War and the Thirty Years War , many archives were blown away by flames. Above all, the farmers ensured that the files and documents describing their tax burden were destroyed. After 1525 many, especially stately documents, had to be rewritten. Between 1618 and 1648 it was mainly the Protestant Swedes who infected their archives when they occupied a city. This was intended to wipe out the older Catholic traditions. The archive in Volkach burned down in 1631 and was looted again in 1648.
The holdings of the archives increased sharply after the transfer to Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century, with work in the archives becoming more professional . It was still largely a matter of chance which archives were inventoried and made accessible. During World War II the town archives burned by Schwarzenau and Haidt , the archive of the municipality Seinsheim was the Castle Water Village has been outsourced and became a prey to the flames. In addition, many communities burned files from the National Socialist era in order to destroy compromising material.
After the World War, a change began in the processing of archive material. In 1948 the teacher Lothar Wagner was appointed archivist of the Altlandkreis Kitzingen and on September 12th of the same year the communities received information on the planned reorganization of the archives. Now the archive was separated from the registry and the archive material was divided into the groups of documents , volumes , files , invoices , maps and plans , as well as books and magazines, which are still used today . By 1951, 9 out of 49 archives in the Altlandkreis had been sorted.
The reorganization of the archives coincided with the establishment of the school associations . After their village school was closed, some of the small municipal administrations moved into the vacant premises and set up their own archive rooms for the first time. Nonetheless, in 1948 only 20 communities had their own archive room (in the Altland district). In the course of the municipal reform in the 1970s, the archive material of the incorporated places was transferred to a central archive in the respective main town . Since then, some of the archive material has also been stored in the State Archives in Würzburg .
List of archives
The municipal archive maintenance is now limited to the larger places in the district. Full-time archives can be found in the two medium- sized centers in Kitzingen and Volkach as well as in the small center in Marktbreit. In addition, the main locations of the administrative communities play a certain role because they were also able to include the archives of the municipalities in charge of the administration . Large stocks are stored in Wiesentheid in particular . In addition to the municipal archives, there are several aristocratic archives of the former ruling families. The largest archive of this kind is that of the Counts of Castell . With the archive of the Benedictine monastery in Münsterschwarzach, there is also a church archive.
| archive | Place (seat of the archive) |
Archive type (according to archive categories ) |
ISIL number (yes / no) |
Address (geocoordinate) |
Scope (in books) |
Holdings (selection) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market archive Abtswind | Wiesentheid | Municipal Archives | Yes | Balthasar-Neumann-Strasse 14 ( ⊙ ) | over 1,000 books | 213 documents (from 1454), 74 official books, 1197 bills and files, other collections |
| Princely Castell's archive | Castell | Manorial, house and family archives (aristocratic archives) | No | Rathausplatz 1 ( ⊙ ) | approx. 7800 documents (from 1224), official books, house archive, office archive, economic archive, photo holdings |
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| Castell municipal archive | Wiesentheid | Municipal Archives | No | Balthasar-Neumann-Strasse 14 ( ⊙ ) | 323 documents (from 1784), 69 official registers, 1125 invoices and files, other collections (including the former Greuth and Wüstenfelden municipal archives ) |
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| Dettelbach City Archives | Dettelbach | Municipal Archives | No | Luitpold-Baumann-Strasse 1 ( ⊙ ) | 69 documents (from 1484), official books, invoices and files, other collections (including the former municipal archives of Bibergau , Brück , Effeldorf , Euerfeld , Mainsondheim , Neuses am Berg , Neusetz , Schernau and Schnepfenbach ) |
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| City Archives Iphofen | Iphofen | Municipal Archives | No | Marketplace 26 ( ⊙ ) | 346 documents (from 1323), official books, invoices and files |
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| Kitzingen City Archives | Kitzingen | Municipal Archives | Yes | Landwehrstrasse 23 ( ⊙ ) | up to 1,000 books | approx. 500 documents (from 1352), official books, invoices and files, photo holdings (including the Main-Post press archive), other collections (including the former municipal archives of Hohenfeld , Hoheim , Sickershausen and Repperndorf ) |
| Editorial archive Die Kitzinger | Kitzingen | Media archive | No | Landwehrstrasse 23 ( ⊙ ) | Older stocks of the newspaper | |
| Mainbernheim City Archives | Mainbernheim | Municipal Archives | No | Rathausplatz 1 ( ⊙ ) | 28 documents (from 1399), official books, invoices and files, other collections (including maps, plans, ordinance sheets) |
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| Mainsondheim Palace Archive, Barons von Mauchenheim called Bechtolsheim | Dettelbach - Mainsondheim | Manorial, house and family archives (aristocratic archives) | No | Schlossweg 1 ( ⊙ ) | Documents (from the late Middle Ages), documents ( rule Bibergau, Mainsondheim, family), family correspondence |
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| Stadtarchiv Marktbreit | Market wide | Municipal Archives | Yes | Marktstrasse 4 ( ⊙ ) | up to 1,000 books | Documents, official books, invoices and files, other collections (including ordinance sheets, regional newspapers) |
| Castle archive Einersheim, Counts of Rechteren-Limpurg | Würzburg , safekeeping in the Würzburg State Archives | Manorial, house and family archives (aristocratic archives) | No | Residenzplatz ( ⊙ ) | ||
| Marktsteft town archive | Marktsteft | Municipal Archives | No | Hauptstrasse 27 ( ⊙ ) | 11 documents (from 1891), official books, invoices and files, other collections (including annual reports of the Chamber of Crafts) |
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| Michelfeld municipal archive | Marktsteft | Municipal Archives | No | Hauptstrasse 27 ( ⊙ ) | 6 documents (from 1888), official books, invoices and files |
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| Archive of the Benedictine Abbey of Münsterschwarzach | Schwarzach am Main - Münsterschwarzach | Church archive | No | Schweinfurter Strasse 40 ( ⊙ ) | 326 documents (36 medieval parchment documents), volumes (including the chronicles of the abbey), files, collections, estates (including Domarus, Hallinger, Kaspar, Scherg, Wolff), photo holdings , other holdings (including the community archives of the former monastery villages of Dimbach , Düllstadt , Gerlachshausen , Großlangheim , Hörblach , Münsterschwarzach , Nordheim am Main , Schwarzenau, Stadelschwarzach , Stadtschwarzach ) |
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| Rüdenhausen community archive | Wiesentheid | Municipal Archives | No | Balthasar-Neumann-Strasse 14 ( ⊙ ) | 244 documents (from 1546), 45 official books, 1004 invoices and files, several deposits |
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| Segnitz municipal archive | Market wide | Municipal Archives | No | Marktstrasse 4 ( ⊙ ) | 89 documents (from 1458), official books, invoices and files, photo holdings (mainly on the local history of Segnitz) |
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| Volkach city archive in the Astheim Charterhouse | Volkach - Astheim | Municipal Archives | Yes | Kirchstrasse 24 ( ⊙ ) | up to 1,000 books | Documents (from 1429), official books, invoices and files, photo holdings , other holdings (including the former municipal archives of the districts of Astheim , Dimbach, Eichfeld , Escherndorf , Fahr , Gaibach , Köhler , Krautheim , Obervolkach and Rimbach ) |
| Wiesentheid community archive | Wiesentheid | Municipal Archives | No | Balthasar-Neumann-Strasse 14 ( ⊙ ) | 1382 documents (from 1682), 61 official registers, 767 invoices and files, other holdings (including the former community archives of the districts of Feuerbach , Geesdorf , Reupelsdorf and Untersambach ) |
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| Castle archive Wiesentheid with Pommersfelden, Counts of Schönborn | Würzburg, safekeeping in the Würzburg State Archives | Manorial, house and family archives (aristocratic archives) | No | Residenzplatz ( ⊙ ) |
List of libraries
In the Kitzingen district there are almost exclusively public libraries that are maintained by the municipalities. Naturally, the larger towns in particular support their libraries. The Dettelbach City Library, which is housed in a central cultural center in the heart of the old town, is particularly modern . Many other libraries were housed in historical buildings. The only scientific special library in the area of the district is that of the Benedictine monastery Münsterschwarzach, which also has by far the largest collection .
literature
- Fritz Mägerlein: The archives of the district of Kitzingen. Part I: The community and market archives (= Bavarian archive inventories. Unterfranken series, issue 4) . Munich 1968.
- Fritz Mägerlein, Walter Scherzer: The archives of the district of Kitzingen. Part II: The city archives (= Bavarian archive inventories. Unterfranken series, issue 5) . Munich 1969.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fritz Mägerlein, Walter Scherzer: The archives of the district Kitzingen. Part II: The city archives (= Bavarian archive inventories. Unterfranken series, issue 5) . Munich 1969. p. XXIX.
- ^ Gerhard Egert: The Swedes in Volkach, 1631–1634 . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Our Main Loop. 1978–1992 (= Volkacher Hefte 16) . Volkach 2008. p. 216.
- ↑ Fritz Mägerlein: The archives of the district Kitzingen. Part I: The community and market archives (= Bavarian archive inventories. Unterfranken series, issue 4) . Munich 1968. S. XXI.
- ↑ Fritz Mägerlein: The archives of the district Kitzingen. Part I: The community and market archives (= Bavarian archive inventories. Unterfranken series, issue 4) . Munich 1968. p. XXIII.
- ↑ Fritz Mägerlein: The archives of the district Kitzingen. Part I: The community and market archives (= Bavarian archive inventories. Unterfranken series, issue 4) . Munich 1968. p. XXIII.
- ↑ General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives: List , accessed on July 1, 2020.
- ^ Staatsbibliothek Berlin: Siglen search , accessed on July 5, 2020.
- ^ Staatsbibliothek Berlin: Siglen search , accessed on July 5, 2020.
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