State Archives of the Canton of Schwyz
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| Archive type | State Archives |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 1 '28.2 " N , 8 ° 39' 15.9" E |
| place | Schwyz |
| Visitor address | Kollegiumstrasse 30 |
| scope | 4200 running meters (2011) |
| ISIL | CH-000071-X |
| carrier | Canton of Schwyz |
| Organizational form | Office |
The State Archives of the Canton Schwyz in Schwyz is the central archive of the Canton Schwyz . It belongs to the Office for Culture in the Education Department.
history
From 1666 to 1936 the archive tower behind the Schwyz town hall served as an archive. The archival holdings grew due to the establishment of a cantonal administration from 1848. In the new building of the Federal Letter Archives (today: Federal Letter Museum ), in which the federal letters as well as other documents and flags were exhibited from 1936 , the State Archives were also housed in a side wing.
With the abolition of the boarding school of the Kollegium Schwyz canton school , the east wing of the school building became free for the cantonal administration in 2000/01. The former gymnasium was converted for the archive and expanded with a magazine structure. The State Archives and the Preservation Department have been at the new location since 2002.
In 1848 the first state archivist was appointed in the canton of Schwyz. At that time, this was a part-time job for an employee of the State Chancellery. A full-time state archivist was hired for the first time in 1904. The state archivist has been the head of the Office of Culture since 2002, while the state archives are headed by an archive manager. After his predecessor Kaspar Michel was elected to the government council, the historian Valentin Kessler became the state archivist.
Stocks
Written archives from the 13th century to the present day are stored in the State Archives of the Canton of Schwyz: documents, files, plans, pictures, photos, newspapers and EDP tapes. Selected documents and artifacts from the collection of documents and antiquities that are part of the State Archives' holdings, such as the Federal Letter from 1291 , are still stored in the Federal Letter Museum. The oldest original document is the freedom letter for the Schwyz, issued in 1240 by Emperor Friedrich II in Faenza .
After the former State Archives Josef Wiget took office in 1976, the archive holdings were divided into three departments:
- Main archive: Archive 1 (Middle Ages to 1848), Archive 2 (1848–1927), Archive 3 (1928–1969), Archive 4 (from 1970), Court Archive 2 (1848–1974), Court Archive 3 (from 1975)
- Ancillary archive: private archives, personnel files, regional and folklore
- Collections: newspapers, graphica, maps and plans, photos and slides, antiquities
literature
- Office for Culture (Ed.): Cultural goods in the State Archives of the Canton of Schwyz. Schwyz 2012, ISBN 978-3-033-03732-8 .
- Albert Hug: Archives as knowledge storage. In: History of the Canton of Schwyz , Volume 2, Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-0340-1118-1 , pp. 253-265.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erwin Horat: From the archive tower to the old KKS gymnasium: The structural development of the state archive. In: Cultural assets in the State Archives of the Canton of Schwyz. Pp. 25-31.
- ↑ Erwin Horat: The State Archives as part of the Office for Culture. In: Cultural assets in the State Archives of the Canton of Schwyz. Pp. 17-23.
- ^ Cultural assets in the State Archives of the Canton of Schwyz. P. 192.