Gotha State Archives
| Gotha State Archives | |
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 ... tenants in the Perthes-Forum Gotha, Justus-Perthes-Straße
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| founding | 1640 |
| Library type | State Archives |
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Gotha 
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| ISIL | DE-2387 |
| management | Government Director Lutz Schilling |
| Website | http://www.thueringen.de/th1/tsk/kultur/staatsarchive/standorte/gotha/ |
The Gotha State Archive is a state archive in the Free State of Thuringia and was located in the rooms of the former princely archive in Friedenstein Castle in Gotha until July 2014 . On March 23, 2015 it reopened in the new premises in the Perthesforum. The archive has an extensive inventory of records, files and documents from the 11th to the 20th century, which reflect part of the history of Thuringia.
Archive history
Duke Ernst the Pious set up an archive vault in Friedenstein Castle. The State Archives were established in 1640/1641 after the establishment of the Saxon-Ernestine Duchy of Gotha . Documents , official registers and files were taken from the main archive of the Saxon-Ernestine House of Weimar and former monasteries. In 1840 this "Secret Archive" was renamed the Ducal Saxon House and State Archive. After the end of the monarchy , the registries of the dissolved central authority of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha were taken over.
The archive was continued as the Thuringian State Archive from 1923, which was renamed the State Archive in 1951 and the “Historical State Archive” in 1965. From 1976 it was only the Gotha branch of the Weimar State Archives.
From 1994 to 2016 it was again as the Thuringian State Archives Gotha an independent state authority , since 2016 it belongs as a department for the State Archive of Thuringia .
Jurisdiction
Before 1918/1920, the historical jurisdiction extended to the Duchy of Gotha and its predecessor territories. In the state of Thuringia , the Gotha State Archives were responsible for state central and subordinate authorities and district administrative authorities of the districts of Gotha and Eisenach . The files of the Prussian administrative district of Erfurt were taken over. In the archive organization of the GDR it was only a historical archive after 1952.
Since the establishment of the Free State of Thuringia, the Gotha State Archive has again been responsible for the middle and lower state authorities and subordinate federal authorities.
Subject areas
The subject areas include:
Files (general), forest files, horticulture, paintings (general), stud files, estate files, hunting files, map, estate, fruit growing, plan, manor files, sheep farming, Thuringia, shipping (Werra), certificate and association files.
Stocks
The holdings include:
Holdings before 1920, holdings of the German Empire (1871–1945), holdings of the State of Thuringia (1920–1952), holdings of the Kingdom / State of Prussia (1816–1945), holdings of the Soviet Zone / GDR (1945–1990), holdings of the district Erfurt / Gera / Suhl, holdings of the Federal Republic of Germany (from 1990), holdings of the Free State of Thuringia (from 1990), non-state archives (holdings and collections), newspapers and official gazettes.
Photo and postcard collection and graphics with around 200 objects, as well as the estate of the Gotha astronomer Peter Andreas Hansen .
Service library
In the service library (1563 to the present day) there are 13,900 titles.
Library
Library seal: Zta 0038 The library is a reference library and can be used by the public. An award is not possible.
The collection areas are: History of the city of Gotha, Duchy of Saxony-Gotha or Saxony-Coburg-Gotha, Thuringia with adjacent areas and historical auxiliary sciences.
Publications on the holdings
- Ulrich Heß: Overview of the holdings of the Gotha State Archives , Weimar 1960
- Thuringian State Archives Gotha, Brief overview of the holdings of the Thuringian State Archives Gotha , Gotha 1997
literature
- Felicitas Marwinski (edit.): Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany , Vol. 19: Thuringia. A - G . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 1998, ISBN 3-487-10776-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agricultural and cultural heritage subject areas
- ^ Thuringian State Archives Gotha inventory
- ↑ www.fotoerbe.de
- ↑ Hansen's estate www.astro.uni-bonn.de
- ^ Thuringian State Archives Gotha Service Library