State archive North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland department
State archive North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland department |
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State level | State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
position | State Archives |
Supervisory authority | Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
founding | 1832 |
Headquarters | Duisburg |
Authority management | Martina Wiech |
Servants | 192 |
Web presence | State archive NRW |
The State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland Department is a department of the State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia . Since 2008, it has consisted of the North Rhine-Westphalian Main State Archive, based in Düsseldorf, and the Rhineland civil status archive, based in Brühl . The two locations in Düsseldorf and Brühl were merged in 2014 by moving to Duisburg . For this purpose, a historic storage building in the Duisburg inner harbor was converted from 2010 to 2013 .
History and jurisdiction
North Rhine-Westphalian Main State Archives
The history of the main state archive goes back more than 170 years. Founded as the Royal Provincial Archives in 1832, it kept the documents and files of the former territories and lordships as well as the monasteries and monasteries of the northern part of the Prussian Rhine Province . It also recorded the files of the central and subordinate authorities of this area . The provincial archive, later the state archive, was part of the public administration as a “memory” of the authorities. Since 1952 it has also been responsible for the ministries and higher authorities of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, founded in 1946, and operates an active documentation on the history of the state. In order to supplement the state tradition, it stores documents from parties and associations as well as the estates of important personalities from the country's history, image, film and sound documents and the largest aerial photo archive in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2004 it became a department of the newly created State Archives North Rhine-Westphalia, in 2008 it was merged into the Rhineland department of the State Archives. In order to counter the space and capacity problems of the main state archive, it was decided in 2007 to build a new building with the involvement of all departments at the time at a common location.
Rhineland civil status archive
The Rhineland civil status archive keeps archives of civil status, i.e. church records, civil and civil status registers from the administrative districts of Düsseldorf and Cologne . In 1954/1955 all stocks were merged at the Brühl location. The creation of the civil status archive goes back to the time of the Second World War, when church registers and second civil status records from the time before 1900 were combined. In 2004 the civil status archive became a department of the North Rhine-Westphalia state archive, in 2008 part of the Rhineland department of the state archive and in 2014 it was spatially merged with it at the new location in Duisburg.
tasks
The employees of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives
- advise state authorities, courts and institutions in North Rhine-Westphalia on managing and securing their documents.
- decide which of the large number of documents that are generated there will be permanently preserved as archival material and transfer these documents to the archive.
- collect documents from non-governmental bodies, e.g. B. by parties, associations and private individuals to supplement the state tradition.
- open up the transferred documents in order to create convenient and meaningful access to the archive material.
- restore damaged archive material and treat it conservatively.
- store the archived material in magazines under suitable climatic conditions so that it can survive the next centuries undamaged.
- provide the archival material for use and advise on research.
- make the holdings stored in the archive accessible to a broad public with publications, archive tours and exhibitions.
The Rhineland department is responsible for the administrative districts of Cologne and Düsseldorf.
Stocks
In total, the archives of the Rhineland department fill almost 100 kilometers of shelves. They are divided into
- approx. 70,000 documents before 1800,
- The oldest documents since the 9th century can be found in the holdings of former church institutions (selection of examples): Marienstift Aachen , Kornelimünster , Altenberg , Brauweiler , Essen Abbey , Heisterbach , Siegburg , Vilich , Werden , Xanten Abbey ,
- approx. 88 kilometers of shelves for files and official books ,
- over 320,000 maps and plans,
- approx. 7,000 church registers,
- approx. 320,000 civil and civil status registers as well as additional files,
- approx. 2,300 sound carriers, approx. 4,800 films and videos,
- approx. 702,000 photos and aerial photographs,
- approx. 11,000 microfilms ,
- 85,000 publications and
- 150,000 books and magazine volumes.
The so-called Kahnakten are also stored in the State Archives. These are files that were destroyed or damaged in an air raid in March 1945 when they were transported on the barge MS Main 68 to an alternate camp, and their restoration has not yet been completed.
The holdings cover almost 1200 years of Rhenish history and range from the early Middle Ages to the present day. They can be divided into the following groups:
Holdings from the period up to 1816
include all older holdings from the beginning of the 9th century to the end of French rule and the transition period in the Rhineland (1814/15): Archives of the territories of Kurköln , Jülich-Berg , Kleve-Mark , Moers and Geldern , Reich Chamber Court files , holdings of the The French era secularized monasteries and monasteries, extensive registries of the French administration from 1794 to 1813. There are also important manuscripts and seal collections .
Authority holdings from the beginning of Prussian rule (1815) until today
These include the documents taken over from the district governments of Düsseldorf and Cologne (including the Aachen government, which was dissolved in 1972 ), authorities from numerous administrative branches (e.g. district offices, police, finance, railway and postal administration), the courts and public prosecutors, the penal system and notaries as well as land registers and files or cadastral maps.
Civil status archive
Church registers, civil status registers (second books, public register, additional files), civil status registers according to the civil status law that has been in force since 1876, as well as name directories, genealogical evaluations, estates and collections are stored here.
Non-governmental and non-written archival material
In addition to the documents of state origin, those from parties and legal entities under public law, estates and contemporary historical collections are also taken over. The Rhineland department has extensive collections of images, sound carriers, films and videos.
Supreme and senior authorities of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since it was founded in 1946
These include the State Chancellery, the ministries, the State Audit Office and the bodies responsible for the administration of justice (Constitutional Court / Higher Administrative Court and State Social Court), the regional higher authorities and all institutions of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. As a document archive of the state government, the department Rheinland preserves all original copies of laws and regulations. In addition to the official statistics, the denazification files are kept here and the cabinet minutes edited.
use
In principle, everyone can use the archives of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives in accordance with the regulations of the North Rhine-Westphalian Archives Act. However, there are legally regulated blocking periods, in particular to protect the rights of individuals. Most of these deadlines can be shortened on request for scientific purposes.
Users can do research on the website of the State Archives or on the Internet portal “Archive in NRW” in the inventory overviews, in the catalog of the service library and increasingly also in the finding aids. The archives and holdings of the service library can be viewed in the service building at Schifferstrasse 30 in Duisburg. Microforms and digital copies are available for many documents , which enable careful use. The website of the State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia provides detailed information on usage.
management
The State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland Department was founded in 1832 as the Prussian State Archive. In 1946 it became the North Rhine-Westphalian Main State Archive, and in 2008 - organizationally combined with the Rhineland civil status archive - into what is now the Rhineland department of the State Archive. Since its inception, it has had the following leaders:
1832-1866 | Theodor Joseph Lacomblet |
1866-1900 | Woldemar Harleß |
1900-1921 | Theodor Ilgen |
1921-1929 | Otto Redlich |
1929-1952 | Bernhard Vollmer |
1953-1972 | Friedrich Wilhelm Oediger |
1972-1992 | Wilhelm Janssen |
1992-2001 | Ottfried Dascher |
2003-2008 | Wolf-Rüdiger Schleidgen |
2009-2013 | Frank M. Bischoff |
since 2014 | Martina Wiech |
literature
- Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 1: Directory according to their places of work. Saur, Munich a. a. 1985, ISBN 3-598-10530-4 .
Web links
- Landesarchiv NRW (homepage of the Landesarchiv NRW)
- Archives in NRW (regional internet portal)
- Archive Act North Rhine-Westphalia (ArchivG NRW)
- State Archives NRW, Duisburg : State Audit Office "Informing the State Parliament and the State Government according to Section 99 of the State Budget Code on the examination of the accommodation of the State Archives North Rhine-Westphalia" (December 1, 2011)
- Archive usage and fee regulations NRW
- Reading room regulations of the State Archives NRW (PDF file; 11 kB)
- Cabinet minutes of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Article in the WAZ from October 30, 2011 on the new building of the state archive
- Chronicle of the new building of the state archive
- Article in the WAZ from January 29, 2014 on the relocation of the NRW State Archives
- Report of the Rhein-Erft Rundschau from January 30th, 2014 on the relocation of the Brühl civil status archive
- Article in the RP from May 12, 2014 on the opening of the State Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Kirfel: The moving boxes are already packed . In: Rhein-Erft Rundschau . Edition of January 30, 2014 ( online ).
- ↑ Kahnakten: An overview for orientation. (PDF) State Archives North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on June 3, 2017 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 14.6 " N , 6 ° 45 ′ 29" E