State Main Archive Koblenz
| State Main Archive Koblenz
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 The state main archive in Koblenz |
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| Archive type | State Archives |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 21 '32 " N , 7 ° 36' 10" E |
| place | Koblenz |
| Visitor address | Karmeliterstr. 1/3, 56068 Koblenz |
| founding | 1832 |
| ISIL | DE-2193 |
| carrier | State of Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Website | www.landeshauptarchiv.de |
The State Main Archives Koblenz (LHAKo) is one of the two central archives of the state administration of Rhineland-Palatinate with its seat in Koblenz . Together with the Landesarchiv Speyer, the Landesarchivverwaltung Rhineland-Palatinate forms the largest archive in the state , whose tasks it basically performs. Branch offices are located in Rommersdorf and Kobern-Gondorf . Elsbeth Andre is the head of the State Main Archive Koblenz / State Archive Administration Rhineland-Palatinate.
tasks
The state main archive Koblenz is responsible for the highest and upper state authorities, regardless of their seat. All middle and sub-authorities as well as all municipal and other public services, which are based in the former administrative districts Koblenz and Trier , as far as they do not maintain their own archives, will also looked after here. In addition, the archives of the states, countries and institutions that previously existed in this area are kept here. The Speyer State Archives are responsible for the southern parts of the country.
Stocks
The Koblenz State Main Archive keeps the following holdings:
- The time of the Old Kingdom (with the most valuable and important inventory from the Archbishopric and Electorate of Trier , e.g. the Trier book of fire from 1563 )
- The time of French rule on the Rhine until the transition of the Rhine Province and its individual parts to Prussia
- The Prussian period until the end of the Second World War
- Archives, collections and bequests (including those of Peter Altmeier , Ottmar Kohler , Karl Kuhn , Fritz Michel , Adolf Süsterhenn and Hubert Teschner )
- Cadastre (cadastral documents from the 19th and 20th centuries)
- Nassau parts of the country
- Authorities of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
The oldest original document in the archive dates from 816.
Furthermore, the state main archive operates a picture agency with around 750,000 photographs, which z. T. can be called up in an online image archive. It contains photographs on the landscape, culture, communities, economy, everyday life and people in Rhineland-Palatinate from the period from 1870 to today. There is also a comprehensive collection of oblique and vertical aerial photographs of all of Germany (from 1933) and smaller collections on Rwanda , Luxembourg , France and Poland .
history
The main state archive Koblenz was founded in 1832 as the Prussian "State Archive Koblenz". Its predecessor institutions were the municipal archive or the archive of the Département de Rhin-et-Moselle under Wilhelm Arnold Günther , which was continued under him until 1826 during the Prussian period. The State Archives moved into the premises of the former government building of Kurtrier directly on the Rhine, which was built in 1725 under Elector Franz Ludwig von der Pfalz and replaced in 1902 by a new Prussian government building. In June 1897 it moved to the converted Deutschherrenhaus . The new location turned out to be problematic because of the building, which was regularly threatened by floods. For example, there were plans for a new building as early as 1938, but these were initially not implemented because of the Second World War . During the war in 1941 the archives were relocated to the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress to protect against the air raids on Koblenz . After a bomb hit, these were briefly relocated to the Salzdetfurth potash mine near Hildesheim in December 1944 before they returned to the Ehrenbreitstein fortress in 1946.
After this emergency shelter had existed for a long time, the Deutschherrenhaus was destroyed, a decision was made in 1952 to build a new one. The State Archives moved into a functional building erected from 1954 to 1956 in Karmeliterstraße. In this area was the building complex of the historic Carmelite monastery , which was later used as a prison until it was destroyed in World War II . The six-storey warehouse building with a self-supporting steel structure is connected to a three-storey administration building by an intermediate building. From 1882 to 1974 the Koblenz City Archives were incorporated into the State Archives. Until 1980, the city archive remained spatially connected to the state main archive. The Koblenz State Archive was given its current name in 1975. As early as the 1980s, the premises became too small. Since two kilometers of archive material have to be recorded every year, capacities were completely exhausted in the mid-1990s. An extension was completed on March 25, 2002, which offers space for an additional 1,912 m² of storage space. Further expansions are planned.
Directors
| 1832-1838 | Karl August Graf von Reisach-Sternberg |
| 1839-1863 | Heinrich Beyer |
| 1863-1879 | Leopold von Eltester |
| 1879-1902 | Wilhelm Becker |
| 1902 | Heinrich Eduard Ausfeld (acting) |
| 1902-1903 | Judge (acting) |
| 1903-1912 | Heinrich Reimer |
| 1912-1921 | Max Bear |
| 1921-1935 | Emil Schaus |
| 1935-1938 | Wilhelm Dersch |
| 1938-1949 | Bruno Hirschfeld |
| 1949-1958 | Aloys Schmidt |
| 1959-1971 | Otto Graf von Looz-Corswarem |
| 1971-1991 | Franz-Josef Heyen |
| 1991-2007 | Heinz-Günther Borck |
| since 2007 | Elsbeth Andre |
Monument protection
The state main archive Koblenz is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz's old town at Karmeliterstraße 1–3 .
The Koblenz State Main Archive has been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 .
See also
literature
- P. Brommer: The private archives in Rhineland-Palatinate in the context of the non-state archival maintenance of the state archives In: Third German-Dutch-Belgian archive symposium, 1993, pp. 97-99.
- 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 .
- A. Schmidt: The new building of the Koblenz State Archives. Koblenz 1956.
- P. Weiß: The recovery of cultural assets from the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress. In: Yearbook for West German State History, Vol. 26, 2000.
Web links
- Website of the State Main Archives Koblenz
- Archive inventory
- Online picture archive
- Literature on the State Main Archives Koblenz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ December 9, 1954. Laying of the foundation stone for a new archive building. ( Memento from December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) in: Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013