Lower Saxony mountain archive

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Old and new building of the Lower Saxony Mountain Archive, 2001

The Lower Saxony Mining Archive or Mining (construction) archive Clausthal in Clausthal-Zellerfeld ( district of Goslar ) preserves documents from the Middle Ages to modern times that were created in the area of ​​responsibility of the former Clausthal Higher Mining Authority . Organizationally, it is a branch of the Lower Saxony State Archives , Hanover Department, which also looks after it professionally. The property is managed by the State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology , the successor to the Upper Mining Office . In addition to the Freiberg Mining Archive and the Bochum Mining History Documentation Center , the Lower Saxony Mining Archive is “the most important special archive on the history of mining in German-speaking countries”.

The archive holdings, the oldest documents of which date from the 13th century, comprise around 4000 meters of shelf space (as of 2009). It consists of historical administrative documents from mining authorities , mines , salt works , metal works , lime works and other mining facilities in the Harz region . There are also stocks from the other districts in Lower Saxony.

In 2000, a new building designed by Meinhard von Gerkan was inaugurated, which houses a magazine and reading room on 835 m² . The west facade is clad with lead in allusion to the Clausthal mining tradition , while the east facade is clad with larch wood , which has acquired a gray patina over time . In the context of the German Facade Prize for ventilated curtain facades in 2002, the “courageous choice of materials and the simple basic design” were mentioned in the category of recognition for new buildings .

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  1. ↑ Stefan Przigoda: Jens Kugler, Treasures from the mountain archive. In: Der Archivar, Volume 62, No. 2, 2009, ISSN  0003-9500 , p. 194 ( PDF file; 3.1 MB ).
  2. ↑ Archive 2009 - No. 2: Trip on Friday, April 24th, 2009. Website of the Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein, accessed on March 30th, 2018.
  3. ↑ Inventory overview of the Lower Saxony Mountain Archive, March 6, 2013, accessed on March 30, 2018.
  4. ↑ Clausthal-Zellerfeld mining archive. Website of the architects Gerkan, Marg und Partner, accessed on March 30, 2018.
  5. ↑ Excellent architecture. German Facade Award 2002 for ventilated curtain walls (VHF). Published by the Association of Building Materials and Components for Rear-Ventilated Facades e. V., Berlin 2002, pp. 26-27 ( PDF file; 1.5 MB ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 16.2 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 55.9 ″  E