State Archives Thurgau
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| Archive type | State Archives |
| place | Frauenfeld |
| Visitor address | Zürcherstrasse 221, 8510 Frauenfeld |
| founding | 1798 |
| scope | 11,000 running meters |
| ISIL | CH-000089-4 |
| carrier | Canton of Thurgau |
| Website | staatsarchiv.tg.ch/ |
The Thurgau State Archive is the state archive of the Swiss canton of Thurgau . It has existed since the independent canton of Thurgau (March 2, 1798) with its own administration. It is located in Frauenfeld .
Stocks
The oldest document in the State Archives dates from January 7, 1125 and comes from the archive of the Kreuzlingen monastery . This is a diploma from Emperor Heinrich V for the Kreuzlingen monastery, in which he confirms the right to renew the hospitium built by Bishop Konrad of Constance and which has since decayed .
history
Initially, clerks organized and archived historical material until Johann Adam Pupikofer was the first real archivist from 1840 to 1880. His successor was the teacher and librarian Johannes Meyer (1835–1911). The Thurgau government commissioned him to organize the old state archive, which contained the parchments of the former monasteries and courts. Since he could only look through the 14,000 documents in his spare time, clean them, date them according to today's calendar and pack them in envelopes with labels, this undertaking took several years.
In 1868 the archive was set up on the ground floor of the new government building. The improper user regulations, especially in the case of the administration, who had unimpeded access to the archive material without taking care of the necessary restoration of the classification, soon led to great confusion, which was made even worse when the motor vehicle control in the archive part of the government building was given its office.
In 1936/1937 the structural renovation of the State Archive succeeded. As soon as the rooms were available, the important task of the new archive order came to the fore and in connection with this the new archive administration had to be regulated. The structure of the new archive regulations was laid down in archive regulations issued by the government council on August 10, 1937 and implemented in 1940. From 1937 Bruno Meyer (1911–1991) was a full-time state archivist for more than forty years and in 1976 inspector of the municipal archives.
literature
- André Salathé: The State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau . In: Verena Rothenbühler, André Salathé (Ed.): Clio kisses the Thurgau. The Historical Association and Historical Research in Thurgau 1859-2009 , Frauenfeld 2009 (Thurgau Contributions to History; 145), pp. 97–127.
- André Salathé: The State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau. History - Tasks - Holdings , Frauenfeld 1997. - State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau: Overview of holdings, edit. by André Salathé, Frauenfeld 2005.
- Bruno Meyer: History of the Thurgau State Archive . In: Festgabe for Government Councilor Anton Schmid , Frauenfeld 1942, pp. 119–187.
- Hermann Fisch: The Thurgau State Archives. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 14, 1938, pp. 73-75 ( e-periodica )
Web links
- Website of the Thurgau State Archives
- State Archives of Thurgau at the Association of Swiss Archivists
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Leisi: Johannes Meyer. Schaffhausen City Archives, March 5, 2020.
- ^ Thurgauer Jahrbuch: Bruno Meyer, Thurgauer Staatsarchivar. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .