Aargau State Archives

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Aargau State Archives
- StAAG -

The State Archives in Tower C of the Buchenhof administration building
The State Archives in Tower C of the Buchenhof administration building
Archive type State Archives
Coordinates 47 ° 23 '16.7 "  N , 8 ° 2' 56.6"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '16.7 "  N , 8 ° 2' 56.6"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and forty-six thousand and ninety-one  /  248750
place Aarau
Visitor address Entfelderstrasse 22
5001 Aarau
founding 1803
ISIL CH-000051-7
carrier Kanton Aargau
Website www.ag.ch/staatsarchiv

The Aargau State Archives in Aarau is the central archive of the Swiss canton of Aargau and its legal predecessors. It is a public institution and belongs to the Department of Education, Culture and Sport (BKS).

tasks

With the law on public information, data protection and archiving (IDAG) of October 24, 2006, the canton of Aargau not only introduced the principle of public disclosure, but also made data protection and archiving anchored in law. The State Archives have the task of preserving cultural heritage, ensuring permanent documentation for the needs of the canton, the public and science, and ensuring that the documents are properly stored, indexed and communicated.

history

Example of a manuscript in the State Archives: the first page of Acta Murensia , a manuscript of the Muri monastery from the 12th century.

After the canton of Aargau was founded in 1803, the registrar of the State Chancellery in Aarau organized and archived the files produced by the new legislative and executive authorities . For the first few years, these were housed in one of the lower rooms of the old town hall , which the Swiss authorities made available to the canton government. In the 1820s, the archive moved to the new government building on Vorderen Vorstadt .

The first archivist in the strict sense was Franz Xaver Bronner . Since it had proven necessary to have a person who could find his way around the documents of the old days, the head of the canton library Bronner, as a recognized scholar, was also appointed state archivist in 1830. With an interruption from 1848 to 1889, the office of state archivist was merged with that of cantonal librarian until 1967.

From 1832 the common reading room and the library's magazines were housed in the Grand Council building. The archives remained in the neighboring government building and were only moved to the Grand Council building in 1923. The improvement of the spatial situation of the archive in the Grand Council building now made it possible to merge the sources left by previous authorities on the history of the canton in Aarau. Between 1929 and 1934, the archives from the period before 1803 in the district archives and the subsidiary archives of the central administration were collected and transferred to the state archive.

In 1959 the State Archives and the Cantonal Library moved into a new building intended for them. The organizational separation of the two institutions in 1967 was completed with the move of the State Archives to the new Buchenhof administration building in 1998. By moving into the new building, a significant improvement in internal operational processes was achieved. The archive users are offered a modern and purpose-oriented working environment in the Buchenhof.

Stocks

The holdings of the State Archives are structured according to the provenance principle .

  • The old archive consists of the documents of the legal predecessors of the canton Aargau, i. H. the secular and ecclesiastical rulers on its territory from 1027 to 1798. According to the rulership structure, the old archive is divided into four subdivisions: Bernischer Aargau , Grafschaft Baden , Freie Ämter and Fricktal . Furthermore, the documents of the secularized monasteries, which extend up to 1876, are shown in the old archive . The archives of the monasteries Muri , Königsfelden and Wettingen can be found here .
  • The Helvetic Archive documents the transition period of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803. The documents are divided into the Helvetic cantons of Aargau, Baden and Fricktal .
  • The new archive contains the documents of the authorities and the cantonal administration since 1803. It is divided into the following subdivisions: Grand Council, Government Council , State Chancellery , Departments, District Offices , dependent state institutions.
  • The jurisprudence archive department consists of documents from the cantonal judicial authorities . It comprises the holdings of the higher court as well as the documents of the 11 district courts and the justice of the peace since 1803.
Example of a plan: Mumpf 1775
  • The plan archive includes plans from the time before and after the founding of the canton in 1803. This includes the canton's plans, such as the Michaeliskarte , the Meyer-Weiss Atlas and the maps by J. Scheuermann , which have only been summarized .
  • The collections area comprises various thematically organized parts. Including a graphic collection comprising approx. 1,800 sheets, as well as the ethnographic photo collection of the Central Swiss Geographical-Commercial Society created between 1885 and 1895 . Last but not least, the microforms of the filmed Aargau church records can also be found in this area .

See also

The legal historian Walther Merz in the State Archives (1931)

literature

Web links

Commons : Aargau State Archives  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Law on Public Information, Data Protection and Archives (IDAG) , accessed on January 17, 2011.