Lower Saxony State Archives (Oldenburg location)

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The Oldenburg department (until 2013: Oldenburg State Archives , until 2019: Oldenburg site ) of the Lower Saxony State Archives is responsible for all state authorities and courts and their legal and functional predecessors with regional jurisdiction in the historical Oldenburg territory . He takes over, stores and maintains the documents worthy of being handed down from state authorities, courts and other institutions of the federal state of Lower Saxony and also secures documents from the non-governmental area that are considered historically important by archivists (i.e. for example from municipalities, associations, companies, persons), if they be offered to him.

history

In the late Middle Ages, Oldenburg became the most important residence of the Counts of Oldenburg , and a permanent chancellery was established as a permanent government institution. The increasing correspondence in the course of the 16th century made the establishment of an archive inevitable. The first archivist is mentioned in 1615, the first formal appointment of an archivist took place in 1626 by Count Anton Günther . From then on, the archive, which was mainly housed in the castle, was a permanent facility of the Oldenburg administration, but divided into a chancellery or government archive and a house and secret archive. This status was also retained when the county fell to Denmark after Anton Günther's death in 1667 .

After Oldenburg was handed over to the younger Holstein-Gottorp line in 1773 and the state was elevated to a duchy or grand duchy, the archive grew through the takeover of files from the new parts of the state (Oldenburg Münsterland, principalities of Lübeck and Birkenfeld) and administrative reforms. In addition, the archives of the actual administrative archive (state archive) and the ducal house were combined between 1843 and 1846, so the house and central archive was given its own building on Damm in 1846, which also housed the ducal library (state library). Under the archivist Georg Sello, the provenance principle, i.e. the order of the holdings according to the principle of origin, prevailed. He adapted the organization system of the archive to the structure of the authorities and the state constitution and began with a complete reallocation of the archive holdings. After the abdication of the Grand Duke in 1918 and the establishment of the Free State of Oldenburg in 1919, the House and Central Archives were renamed "Landesarchiv". Since the space in the archive and library building at the dam 42 were inadequate, was in the spring of 1936 over, the dam 43, a neo-classical mansion be purchased as an administrative building after the Villa State-owned last for several tenants changing HJ and BDM was used . This location was retained, but the archive was expanded considerably between 1959 and 1964 and received its characteristic magazine tower. In the meantime, the authority, which was renamed the State Archives in 1939, had been incorporated into the Lower Saxony Archives Administration through the dissolution of the State of Oldenburg and the establishment of the State of Lower Saxony in 1946, to which the State Archives Aurich , Bückeburg , Osnabrück , Stade , Wolfenbüttel and the main state archive in Hanover , which is responsible for the state ministries . From 1990 the state archive in its current form was fundamentally expanded and rebuilt. In the summer of 1995, the new public area with a modern equipped user room, group work room and lecture hall was put into use. On January 1, 2005, all Lower Saxony State Archives were merged to form the Lower Saxony State Archives . As a result, for the first time since 1943, after a fundamental reorganization of the holdings, an updated overview is being worked on. Since 2013 the official name has been the Lower Saxony State Archives, Oldenburg location, and since 2019 the Lower Saxony State Archives, Oldenburg Department.

Jurisdiction

The Oldenburg department is responsible for the state authorities and courts and their legal and functional predecessors with regional jurisdiction in the districts of Ammerland , Cloppenburg , Friesland , Oldenburg , Wesermarsch and Vechta and in the independent cities of Delmenhorst , Oldenburg and Wilhelmshaven . The boundaries of this area correspond to those of the old county of Oldenburg and the rule of Jever until 1667 , from 1667 to 1773 those of the county of Oldenburg in the Danish era, from 1773 to 1918 those of the Duchy or Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , from 1918 to 1946 those of the Free State / State of Oldenburg and from 1946 to 1978 those of the Oldenburg administrative district . In the records of the Oldenburg ministries and central authorities there are still numerous documents relating to the regions of Lübeck and Birkenfeld . These areas were ceded to Prussia as a result of the Greater Hamburg Act of 1937. As a result, the archives of the local sub and middle authorities as well as manuscripts with regional reference were handed over to the Schleswig-Holstein State Archives in Schleswig (because of the Diocese / Principality of Lübeck) and to the Koblenz State Archives (because of the Principality of Birkenfeld ).

The Oldenburg City Archive is housed as an office of the City of Oldenburg in the office building of the State Archives, but is neither organizationally nor personally tied to the Lower Saxony State Archives Department Oldenburg.

Stocks

The magazines of the Oldenburg department store around 13 kilometers of shelves for files, around 33,000 maps and plans and around 9,500 documents from the Middle Ages to the 21st century (as of March 2015).

use

In principle, everyone can use the archives of the Oldenburg department in accordance with the regulations of the law on the safeguarding and use of archival material in Lower Saxony (Lower Saxony Archive Act - NArchG), whereby data and personal protection periods may have to be observed. Upon request, use for scientific purposes can be approved by the archive management before the expiry of the protection periods.

Users can research the vast majority of finding aids of the state archive or the department on the Internet on the website of the Lower Saxony State Archives. This offer is constantly being expanded. The archive material and the holdings of the service library can only be viewed in the reading room; unlike in libraries, it is not possible to borrow them. Microfilms or microfiches and digital copies are available from numerous documents , which enable careful use.

Since February 2015, users have been able to register online via the Lower Saxony archival information system (Arcinsys) , carry out research, submit applications for use and reserve archival materials for viewing in the reading room.

management

literature

  • Hermann Lübbing: The holdings of the Oldenburg State Archives. Oldenburg 1943.
  • Stefan Hartmann: The Lower Saxony State Archive in Oldenburg - An introduction for archive users. Göttingen 1978.
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Schaer: History of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Oldenburg from the 17th to the middle of the 20th century.
  • Matthias Nistal: 100 Years Oldenburg City Archives 1903–2003. Ed .: Kulturamt der Stadt Oldenburg, edited by Claus Ahrens and others, Isensee-Verlag, Oldenburg 2004, pp. 86–92.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NLA OL Best. 134 No. 3637a - The service building of the country ... - Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved October 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ NLA OL Best. 137 No. 409 - Purchase and use of the Scho ... - Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved October 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ NLA OL Rep 400 Order. 134 No. 3637b - The service building of the country ... - Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved October 10, 2018 .
  4. ^ Nordwest-Zeitung: Oldenburg: Neue. July 30, 2019, accessed August 8, 2019 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 2.9 ″  N , 8 ° 13 ′ 12 ″  E