Chemnitz State Archives

The State Archives in the Peretzhaus in Chemnitz

The Chemnitz State Archives are Department 4 of the Saxon State Archives . In addition to the state tradition, it is kept in the administrative archive of the Schönburg rulers.

Responsibilities

The Chemnitz State Archive records around 25 running kilometers of shelves for documents , official books, files, drawings, maps and cracks as well as electronic and other data carriers . The tradition extends from the oldest document from 1233 to the present day.

Within the Saxon State Archives, the Chemnitz State Archives are responsible for the archives of the courts, authorities and other public bodies in the former Chemnitz administrative district .

history

1949-1990

Since 1949, the State Archive Depot of South-West Saxony existed in the Castle Fordglauchau , where the holdings of the Princely House of Schönburg, expropriated in 1945, were kept. In 1951, the state archive for Fordglauchau was founded. The responsibility was extended to the manor archives and local authorities of the western Ore Mountains and Vogtland. Since 1959, the archive, now known as the Glauchau State Archive, has been responsible for all state authorities and former manor archives in the area of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district. In 1964, due to insufficient storage rooms in the Fordglauchau Castle, this responsibility was revoked and transferred to the Dresden State Main Archives. In 1965, the Glauchau regional archive was subordinated to the Dresden State Main Archive as a branch. The establishment of a state archive in the district town of Karl-Marx-Stadt, which had been required since the 1960s because of the unsuitable conditions in Fordglauchau, did not materialize.

In order to promote regional historical research, a branch of the Dresden State Archives was set up in 1984 on the basis of a resolution by the GDR Interior Ministry in Karl-Marx-Stadt. It started working three years later, but did not have its own storage room. In May 1990 the archive was given its own premises in the building of the SED district leadership in Karl-Marx-Stadt. This enabled the archive to be expanded from a one-man operation to three archivist positions.

1991 to 2012

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the Chemnitz State Archives became an independent archive in 1991 and the holdings of the former Glauchau State Archives were assigned and Barbara Schaller was appointed archive manager. Due to the large number of archival material from former GDR authorities and companies, the storage space in the former SED district management in the city center of Karl-Marx-Stadt was soon exhausted, so that in 1992 the archive moved into the machine rooms of the former VEB cotton spinning mill Karl-Marx -Stadt moved to the Europark commercial and leisure center in Schulstrasse on the southern outskirts. In 1999, the responsibility of the archive was extended according to the location principle to include all the impressive documents created in the areas of the Ore Mountains and Voigtland districts, the Zwickau district headquarters and the Chemnitz and Zwickau district headquarters. After Barbara Schaller, Annegret Wenz-Haubfleisch became the new archive manager in 2000. The Chemnitz archive location was secured in 2001; prior to that, there had been plans to dissolve the archive and relocate the holdings to the state-owned Hubertusburg Palace since the 1990s . From 2002, the holdings belonging to the responsibility of the Dresden Main State Archives were taken over . On January 1, 2005, the Chemnitz State Archives were merged with the Archives Department at the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior and the State Archives in Dresden , Freiberg and Leipzig to form the “Saxon State Archives”. The former department head of the Freiberg Mountain Archive, Raymond Plache, has been running the house since 2007 .

2013 until today

The State Archives in Chemnitz moved to the Peretzhaus, which is closer to the center on Elsasser Strasse, in 2012/13. The lease between the Staatsbetrieb Sächsisches Immobilien- und Baumanagement and the FME Verwaltungs GmbH was signed on August 19th, 2010. In addition to extensive renovation work on the Peretzhaus, it was necessary to build a new warehouse building. The archive has been closed since February 1, 2012 due to preparation and execution of the move. The reopening for user traffic in the Peretzhaus took place on May 13, 2013.

Stumbling blocks

In memory of the Peretz family, who owned the stocking factory in the building of today's archive and who were expropriated, persecuted and killed during the Nazi era, there are three stumbling blocks in the sidewalk in front of the entrance to the archive building.