Lower Saxony State Archives (Aurich site)

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The Aurich department of the Lower Saxony State Archives

The Aurich department (until 2013: State Archives Aurich, until 2019: Aurich location ) is responsible for the historical territory of East Frisia within the Lower Saxony State Archives . It takes over, stores and maintains the documents that are worthy of being handed over to the authorities, courts and other state offices and secures historically important documents from the non-governmental area. The authority is headed by Michael Hermann.

history

The first archive building in Aurich. The former state archive was housed here from 1890 to 1963. The curved lettering Königl stands above the portal . Prussia. State Archives and in the gable emblazoned the Prussian eagle .

In 1601 an archive was mentioned for the first time in the case of the Count's East Frisian government in Aurich. The archive became an independent specialist authority when it was founded as the Royal Prussian State Archives Aurich on April 9, 1872. It was initially located in two rooms of the Aurich Higher Court in the castle until it was able to move into its own purpose-built archive building on von Jheringstrasse in 1890. This old building is still in its place today, but is now part of the Ulricianum grammar school and is used for art classes.

In 1963, the State Archives moved into a new archive building on Oldersumer Strasse, which was expanded to include storage space by adding a warehouse in 1985 and converting the attic storeys in 2000. When the State of Lower Saxony was founded in 1946, the State Archives were named Lower Saxony State Archives in Aurich . After the merger of all Lower Saxony state archives in 2005, Aurich is one of seven locations of the Lower Saxony State Archive and was initially called Lower Saxony State Archive - State Archive Aurich - , since 2014 the name Lower Saxony State Archive - Location Aurich, since 2019 Lower Saxony State Archive Department Aurich.

Jurisdiction

Map of East Frisia

The Aurich department stores documents from the area that has been a county since the 15th century and later the Principality of East Friesland including Harlingerland . This area fell to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1744 , to the Kingdom of Holland in 1806, to the French Empire in 1810 and was again Prussian from 1813 to 1815. At the Congress of Vienna (1815) it was added to the Kingdom of Hanover and, with its annexation from 1866 onwards, was again Prussian as part of the Prussian Province of Hanover. Within this, East Friesland formed the Aurich administrative district within its traditional borders , which also existed after the establishment of Lower Saxony .

From 1978 to 2004, East Friesland was part of the Weser-Ems administrative district , which, like all administrative districts of Lower Saxony, was abolished on January 1, 2005. The responsibility of the Aurich Archive thus extends - as it did in Hanover and Prussian times - to the area that until 1978 corresponded to the Aurich administrative district and is now covered by the Aurich , Leer and Wittmund districts and the independent city ​​of Emden .

Stocks

The inventory comprises 5.7 kilometers of shelves of archival material on East Frisian regional and local history over the past 700 years. These include around 1,300 documents, the oldest dating from 1284, over 11,000 maps and plans and 2,000 photos. The service library has over 30,000 titles available to users.

The holdings are divided into three main groups:

  1. The state holdings (repositories) include documents and files of the central authorities, the middle and lower level of authorities as well as the courts of the County / Principality of East Friesland, the Province of East Friesland of the Kingdom of Prussia (1744–1808 / 15), the Département Ostfriesland / Ems-Oriental ( 1808–1814), the Hanoverian Landdrosteibezirks Aurich (1815 / 23–1866) and the Prussian administrative district Aurich (1866–1945), the Lower Saxony administrative district Aurich (1945 / 46–1978) and the rural districts Emden and Weener until 1932, north until 1978 and the districts of Aurich, Leer and Wittmund until 1945.
  2. The non-governmental holdings ( deposits ) are divided into archives from municipalities, e.g. B. the city archives of Aurich, Esens and Norden, the East Frisian landscape and the East Frisian districts after 1945. There are also documents from clubs, parties and associations, economic and social organizations, commercial enterprises, educational institutions as well as private estates and aristocratic archives, including the archive of the counts and Prince of Knyphausen and the von Freese family.
  3. The collections include manuscripts; Seal / stamp; a collection of images, films and audio; Cards; Coat of arms; Posters; Aerial photos; the collection of contemporary history and small acquisitions.

use

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

Users can in the internet on the side of the department or the internet portal of the Lower Saxony State Archive in most finding aids research of Auricher archive. This offer is constantly being expanded. The archives of the archive and the holdings of the service library can be viewed in the service buildings at Oldersumer Straße 50. Microfiches and digital copies are available for many documents , which enable careful use.

Projects

The Aurich Department of the State Archives, together with the East Frisian Landscape , is creating a historical database of East Frisia places in which the history and development of all - up to the regional and administrative reforms of 1972 - independent municipalities with their suburbs, colonies and residential areas are to be presented on the Internet.

literature

  • Walter Deeters : Overview of the holdings of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Aurich. Göttingen 1999.
  • Günther Möhlmann / Joseph König : History and holdings of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Aurich. Göttingen 1955.
  • Joseph König: Administrative history of East Frisia until the extinction of his princely house. Göttingen 1955.
  • Rolf Uphoff / Ingrid Hennings / Bernhard Parisius: Archival sources on the political crisis situation during the Weimar period in the former territories of Lower Saxony: an analytical inventory. Vol. 4: The Prussian Province of Hanover, Part 4: Files from state and communal agencies as well as from private sources in the Aurich administrative district, Göttingen 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lower Saxony State Archives - State Archives Aurich , accessed on January 8, 2010
  2. ↑ Survey of the holdings of the State Archives Aurich , accessed on January 8, 2010
  3. ↑ Law on the safeguarding and use of archival material in Lower Saxony (Lower Saxony Archives Act - NArchG) of May 25, 1993, amended by Article 1 of the law for the implementation of administrative modernization in the State Chancellery of November 5, 2004 (Nds. GVBl. P. 402 )
  4. ^ Working group of local chronicles in the East Frisian landscape , accessed on March 9, 2013
  5. ^ Historical place database of the East Frisian landscape , accessed on March 9, 2013

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Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 0.5 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 0.4 ″  E