State Archives of the Canton of Bern
State Archives of the Canton of Bern - StAB -
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State Archives from the south. |
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Archive type | State Archives |
Coordinates | 46 ° 57 '3.2 " N , 7 ° 26' 13.4" E |
place | Bern |
Visitor address | Falkenplatz 4, 3012 Bern |
founding | 1891 |
scope | 27,000 m |
ISIL | CH-000030-7 |
carrier | Canton Bern |
Organizational form | Office |
Website | be.ch/staatsarchiv |
The State Archives of the Canton of Bern collects, indexes and stores the archival cultural assets of the Canton of Bern and ensures that they are preserved. It is the repository of all state archives worth preserving and makes them available to the public.
history
Bern's archive has been housed in the vaults of the town hall since the 15th century . The archives were subordinate to the town clerk until 1798 . From around 1650 there was the office of the vault registrar . In 1713 a permanent archive commission was set up. The archives of the lost city and republic of Bern went to the newly created canton of Bern in 1803 , some of them to the canton of Aargau and the canton of Vaud . The administration of the State Archives was the responsibility of the respective state clerk until 1891. In the 1930s, the building director Robert Grimm had the idea of a new building on Länggasse . In 1939/40 the archive was able to be moved to Falkenplatz. The construction was planned and carried out by Walter von Gunten. From 1984 to 1986, a four-storey, underground cultural property protection building was built at the same location according to plans by Magdalena Rausser .
Stocks
- Chancellery archive: Old Chancellery archive , Chancellery archive until 1992, Chancellery archive from 1993
- Administrative archives : administrative archives until 1831, administrative archives until 1992, administrative archives from 1993, district archives , original archives
- State Collections: certificates , land registers , Island Archives , Helvetic , mandates and official prints, church records , plans, survey records, Bernese official publications
- Special archives : Audiovisual archive, private archives (families, gentlemen , companies, associations , societies, parties ) local history and communities, memorials and sources, festivals and celebrations, collections and realities, collection of Bernese family coats of arms , archive of the Swiss National Exhibition in Bern 1914
- Library: 40,000 volumes, 168 magazines, 250 newspapers (30 of which are current)
literature
- Heinrich Türler : Inventory of the State Archives of the Canton of Bern . In: Inventories of Swiss Archives, ed. from the General History Research Society of Switzerland (= supplement to the Anzeiger für Swiss History), Part I, Bern 1895, pp. 38-64 (also as a separate print: Bern 1892).
- Bern State Archives 1940 , published by the Historical Association of the Canton of Bern, Bern 1940.
- Walter von Gunten: New State Archives , in: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde 1940, pp. 215–210. doi: 10.5169 / seals-238252
- Buildings and domains of the State of Bern , published by the Government Council of the Canton of Bern, Basel 1941.
- State Archives Bern. Conversion and expansion , published by the Cantonal Building Department, Bern 1988.
See also
Web links
- Official website
- online inventory at www.query.sta.be.ch
- online library catalog at swissbib.ch
- Archiving Act of March 31, 2009 online
- Archiving Ordinance of November 4, 2009 online
- archivesonline.org