Lower Saxony State Archives (Bückeburg location)

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The archive is located in the left cavalier building of Bückeburg Castle

The Bückeburg Department (until 2013: State Archive Bückeburg , until 2019: Location Bückeburg ) is one of eight departments of the Lower Saxony State Archive . She is responsible for the state authorities and courts as well as their legal and functional predecessors with regional jurisdiction in the district of Schaumburg and the former Schaumburg territory. It is located in a part of the building (left cavalier building ) of Bückeburg Castle . It stores documents, files, maps, plans and files of the state authorities and secures historically important documents from the non-state area.

history

The Schaumburg chancellery regulation of 1582 mentions for the first time a "Gewelbe" (vault) at Stadthagen Castle as a repository for "seals and letters" of the County of Holstein-Schaumburg , which in 1585 was first referred to as "Archives". In 1638 the archive was still in Stadthagen and from 1640 in the Bückeburg residential palace. This Schaumburg velvet archive initially remained in Bückeburg after the state was divided into a Hessian (Grafschaft Schaumburg) and a Lippe ( Grafschaft Schaumburg-Lippe ) part . In 1873 the documents pertaining to the Hessian (now Prussian ) part of the state came to the Marburg State Archives .

The history of the new schaumburg-Lippe registries is characterized by a complicated dualism of state and sovereign-private archives. In 1907 the previous “House and State Archives” was converted into a “House Archive”, from which state files were handed over to the State Archives at the Ministry. The Schaumburg-Lippische Staatsarchiv was deposited in the State Archive of Hanover in 1939 for security reasons . From there, the files were relocated to Stadthagen Castle after the heavy air raids on Hanover in October 1943. After the end of the Second World War and the seizure of the castle by the British occupying forces in 1945, they first came back to Bückeburg. In autumn 1947, the establishment of a Lower Saxony State Archive in Bückeburg initially proved impossible due to a lack of suitable rooms, so that in 1949 the files were returned to the State Archive in Hanover.

In 1961 the Lower Saxony State Archive in Bückeburg was established and opened in 1963. In the following years, in addition to the documents and files temporarily deposited in Hanover, the documents relating to the Grafschaft Schaumburg were also brought together. In 1962 and 1972 the Fürstlich Schaumburg-Lippische Hofkammerarchiv and the Fürstlich Schaumburg-Lippische Hausarchiv were also deposited in the state archive in Bückeburg.

Left part of the building of the central workshop with entrance, offices and backup film

The central workshop of the Lower Saxony State Archives belonged to the State Archives Bückeburg until 2013 , in which the mass restoration of archives of the State Archives is concentrated. There, at the end of the 1980s, the Bückeburg process for the massive deacidification of individual sheets of archived material was developed, which is used throughout Germany and Europe. In the central workshop, the backup filming of the most important archive material is carried out on behalf of the federal government for all archives in the states of Lower Saxony and Bremen as part of the protection of cultural property . Since October 1, 2013, the central workshop of the Lower Saxony State Archives has been subordinate to the Hanover location of the NLA and has been part of the Central Services Department of the State Archives, whose management is also based in Hanover, since 2019.

After the foundation of the Lower Saxony State Archives on January 1, 2005, the archive was initially called Lower Saxony State Archives - State Archives Bückeburg. On October 1, 2013, the official name was changed to Lower Saxony State Archives - Bückeburg location. Since 2019 the name is Lower Saxony State Archives - Department Bückeburg.

Stocks

The Bückeburg archive stores around 5600 documents, around 3.5 kilometers of shelves for files and around 25,000 cards and plans. The Schaumburg church registers and regional newspapers are available in the form of microfiche . The holdings also include the “chain library ” of the Stadthagen Franciscan monastery from the first half of the 16th century, the largest collection of its kind in Germany.

The state archives are divided into two groups:

  • Inventory group L: Authorities of the old Grafschaft Schaumburg until 1647 (Schaumburger Samtarchiv L 1), the Grafschaft Schaumburg-Lippe from 1647 and their successors.
  • Stock group H: Authorities of the Hessian county of Schaumburg from 1647 and their successors.

The state holdings are held by the archives of the Schaumburg-Lippische Landeskirche (Dep. 22), the archive of the Schaumburg district (Dep. 46) and the city archives of Bückeburg (Dep. 9), Obernkirchen (Dep. 29) and Hessisch Oldendorf ( Dep. 59) added. The most important holdings include the Fürstlich Schaumburg-Lippische Hofkammerarchiv (inventory group K) and the Princely Schaumburg-Lippische Hausarchiv (inventory group F), both of which are privately owned.

The Bückeburg department of the Lower Saxony State Archives also looks after the Fürstlich Schaumburg-Lippische Hofbibliothek .

Archivists (selection)

Archive manager:

Other archivists:

use

The archival material stored in the archive can in principle be used by anyone. The provisions of the Lower Saxony Archives Act and the corresponding administrative regulations as well as protection periods, if applicable , must be taken into account.

Special provisions apply to some deposits. The Fürstlich Schaumburg-Lippische Hausarchiv and the Fürstlich Schaumburg-Lippische Hofkammerarchiv are to be used until the border year 1892 according to the provisions of the Lower Saxony Archives Act.

On the website of the Lower Saxony State Archives, users can research a large part of the finding aids of the Bückeburg Archives. The archive material of the archive and the holdings of the service library can only be viewed in the reading room; unlike in public libraries, borrowing is generally not possible.

literature

  • Franz Engel: The Schaumburg-Lippe Archives and Central Registries. Their story and their content. Göttingen 1955 (= publications of the Lower Saxony archive administration, issue 4).
  • Hubert Höing: Overview of the holdings of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Bückeburg. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004 (= Publications of the Lower Saxony Archive Administration, Volume 57), ISBN 978-3-525-35542-8 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Engel: The Schaumburg-Lippischen Archives and registries. Their story and their content. Göttingen 1955, pp. 13, 99-101.
  2. ↑ Franz Engel: The Schaumburg-Lippischen Archives and registries. Their story and their content. Göttingen 1955, p. 31.
  3. ^ Stefan Brüdermann: 50 Years of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Bückeburg. In: Archive News Lower Saxony. Volume 15, 2011, pp. 128–130, here p. 129.
  4. ^ Renaissance Stadthagen ; landtag-niedersachsen.de
  5. ^ Archive regulations in Lower Saxony
  6. ^ Online finding aid from the Lower Saxony State Archives

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 31.9 "  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 41.3"  E