Lower Saxony State Archives (location Wolfenbüttel)

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The building of the Lower Saxony State Archives - Wolfenbüttel Department

The Wolfenbüttel department (until 2013: Wolfenbüttel State Archive , until 2019: Wolfenbüttel site ) is responsible within the Lower Saxony State Archives for all state authorities and courts and their legal and functional predecessors in the area of ​​the state of Braunschweig, which was independent until 1946, or the former administrative district of Braunschweig . The Wolfenbüttel location stores the archivable documents, files, maps, plans and files of the state authorities and courts of its district, makes them accessible and makes them available for use.

The Wolfenbüttel department, the old Braunschweig State Main Archive, is one of the "homebound institutions" of the old state of Braunschweig protected by the Lower Saxony Constitution (Art. 72).

history

The dukes of Braunschweig and Lüneburg initially deposited their documents in the collegiate church of Sankt Blasien, the Braunschweig cathedral . In 1327 two canons are named as archive administrators. An archive authority was established in the ducal residence of Wolfenbüttel from the end of the 16th century . It was based in the Neue Kanzlei, where vaults with built-in drawers from the 16th to 19th centuries Century remember the archival storage.

The archive was largely spared from war losses. However, a decisive gap in tradition arose when the documents of the ducal court marshal's office burned in Brunswick Castle in 1830 .

In 1955 the State Archives received a new building in Lechlumer Holz (architect: Jan Wilhelm Prendel ), which is now a listed building. In 2005 it was combined with the six other Lower Saxony state archives to form the Lower Saxony State Archive. The Lower Saxony Economic Archive Foundation in Braunschweig has been associated with the Wolfenbüttel department since 2005 .

Stocks

The Wolfenbüttel department stores 17 kilometers of shelves for files, 26,000 parchment documents, 40,000 maps and plans, as well as the old church registers from the area of ​​the Braunschweigische Landeskirche (first writings up to 1815, duplicates up to 1875). The central records are the files of the Privy Council (2 old), the Braunschweig State Ministry (12 new) and the Administrative Presidium or the Braunschweig District Government (4 Nds). The otherwise important holdings include the rich manuscript department and the archive of the University of Helmstedt .

The state holdings are supplemented by the district archives of Goslar , Helmstedt , Wolfenbüttel, the city archives of Wolfenbüttel and Bad Gandersheim , other archives from communities, associations, clubs and private estates.

The most famous document is the so-called marriage certificate of Empress Theophanu from the year 972, nominated for World Document Heritage in 2005 .

use

Everyone is free to use it, but is usually subject to a fee. It is based on the provisions of the Lower Saxony Archives Act and the corresponding administrative regulations.

On the website of the Lower Saxony State Archives, users can research most of the State Archives' finding aids in advance. This offer is constantly being expanded. The archives of the Wolfenbüttel department and the books from the service library can be viewed in the service buildings at Forstweg 2.

Archive management

literature

  • Hermann Kleinau: History of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Wolfenbüttel. Göttingen 1953.
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck: The holdings of the Wolfenbüttel State Archives. Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-35545-9 .
  • Brage bei der Wieden: 600 years of the Wolfenbüttel State Archives? In: Archive News Lower Saxony. Volume 13, 2009, pp. 30-31.

Web links

Commons : Staatsarchiv Wolfenbüttel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory overview of the Wolfenbüttel State Archive  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 5, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.staatsarchiv-weltenbuettel.niedersachsen.de  
  2. ↑ Terms of use  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 5, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.staatsarchiv-weltenbuettel.niedersachsen.de  
  3. ↑ Inventory overview of the Wolfenbüttel State Archive  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 9, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.staatsarchiv-weltenbuettel.niedersachsen.de  
  4. ↑ Joseph König : Hermann Kleinau †. July 14, 1902 - January 18, 1978. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch 1977. Volume 58, Braunschweig 1977, pp. 139–140
  5. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck : Obituary for Joseph König 1915–1996. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 1996. Volume 77, Braunschweig 1996, ISSN  0068-0745 , pp. 378-380
  6. ↑ State archive director Horst-Rüdiger Jarck retires , In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . April 26, 2006
  7. ↑ Website of the Lower Saxony State Archives  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.staatsarchive.niedersachsen.de  

Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 54.5 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 55.7 ″  E