State Archives of the Canton of Solothurn
| State Archives of the Canton of Solothurn - StASO -
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 The State Archives, built in 1967–1968 |
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| Archive type | State Archives |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 12 '36 " N , 7 ° 31' 44" E |
| Visitor address | Bielstrasse 41 4509 Solothurn |
| ISIL | CH-000043-5 |
| carrier | Canton of Solothurn |
| Website | staatsarchiv.so.ch |
The Solothurn State Archive is the central archive for the administration of the Canton of Solothurn and its legal predecessors. It is an independent office and belongs to the State Chancellery. Its headquarters are in Solothurn .
tasks
The State Archives keep the documents of the Parliament, Government and Administration of the Canton of Solothurn that are worth archiving. In addition, there are documents from independent corporations, institutions under cantonal public law and from natural or legal persons, insofar as they perform the canton's public tasks. The State Archives thus make a contribution to the transparency and verifiability of government action. It helps to maintain the rule of law and legal certainty and supports the protection of public and private property rights. In addition, its activities enable the processing of topics for science and research.
Services
Cantonal authorities that have submitted documents to the State Archives can view them again at any time. Lending is also possible under certain conditions. In addition, the State Archives offer courses on the subject of file management and advise cantonal authorities on the structuring and management of their records. Private individuals also have the opportunity to inspect public documents, provided that no ongoing tenders, investigative proceedings or particularly sensitive personal data are affected. The public principle forms the basis for this. This has been anchored in the cantonal Information and Data Protection Act (InfoDG) since 2003. Archives can be ordered for inspection in the State Archives and viewed on site in the reading room with 20 workstations. There are numerous freely accessible finding aids for the holdings of the State Archives. In addition, the State Archives have a reference library with over 20,000 titles on geography, politics, economics, culture and history of the canton of Solothurn.
Stocks
The holdings of the State Archives are structured according to the provenance principle, i.e. according to the context of origin and origin. They cover around 8500 running meters. The oldest fragment of a text dates to the end of the 8th century. The oldest completely preserved document dates from 1147. In terms of quantity, the focus is clearly on newer administrative documents. The archival holdings are grouped as follows:
- Archives of the City of Solothurn until 1798
- Archives of the Helvetic Canton of Solothurn 1798–1803
- Archives of the Canton of Solothurn since 1803
- Archives of the Cantonal Council
- Government Council Archives
- Archives of the departments and offices of the cantonal administration
- Archives of the cantonal courts
- Notarial archives
- Archives of the repealed monasteries and monasteries
- Marital records
- Archives and archival material of private origin
history
The State Archives developed from the chancellery of the medieval city-state of Solothurn. Since the beginning of the 13th century it kept documents in which various rulers of the city certified their rights. Around the middle of the 15th century, the first series of official registers and the court tradition that continues to this day were added. Via the clerks at the time, there were connections to the municipal law firm in the Allgäu and Swabia. For the 16th century there is evidence of a further transfer of law firm knowledge from Bern and Savoy. A registrar's office was created relatively late in 1738. The registry principle was only partially adopted in the 18th century, which means that the Solothurn chancellery at that time can be assigned to the western part of Switzerland. As a novelty, Helvetik introduced the appointment of an archivist. From 1832 to 1835, Franz Voitel (1773–1839) was the first full-time state archivist. After his departure, the respective state clerk ran the archive alongside the chancellery, as before. From 1861 until his death, the historian Josef Ignaz Amiet (1827–1895) was head of the archives and chancellery. From 1910 to 1919 the former theologian, historian and archivist Adolf Lechner (1871–1945) exercised this dual position. It was not until 1919 that Johannes Kälin (1877–1957), a full-time archivist, took over the management of the State Archives again. In 1837 the then state clerk Franz Xaver Amiet (1786–1846) introduced the first registry plan for the cantonal administration. Further registry plans followed in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. Similar to the rubrics for the division of administrative business at the time of the Ancien Régime, they served as the basis for the later filing of the documents in the State Archives.
Archive building
For centuries the state archive was housed in the town hall. In 1969 the company moved to a modern archive building designed by architect Emil Dreier (1899–1973). This is located to the west of the old town at Bielstrasse 41. In 1991/92 an expansion of the magazine took place under the direction of the architecture and planning office Etter & Partner. In terms of space, the State Archives are increasingly reaching their limits. At the same time, conceptual deficiencies in the original planning as well as the need for renovation and refurbishment are noticeable in the more than 40-year-old building.
literature
- Ambros Kocher: Development of the Solothurn Archives. In: Association of Swiss Archivists, Annual Meeting 1947, Solothurn 1947, pp. 13–19.
- Ambros Kocher: Archives. In: The Canton of Solothurn. A home book. Solothurn 1949, pp. 157-159.
- Hellmut Gutzwiller: The Solothurn State Archives in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In: Communications from the Association of Swiss Archivists, No. 30, 1978, p. 315.
- Hellmut Gutzwiller: Source publications, registers and repertories of the Solothurn State Archives . In: Jahrbuch für Solothurnische Geschichte, 52, 1979, pp. 283–290 doi: 10.5169 / seals-324710 .
- Othmar Noser: A double jubilee of the State Archives: 75 years of the State Archives Office as full-time office - 25 years of the new State Archives building on Bielstrasse. In: Jurablätter 56, 1994, pp. 177-181.
- Andreas Fankhauser: Solothurn State Archives. In: Anton Gösi (ed.): Archive buildings in Switzerland and in the Principality of Liechtenstein 1899–2009 . Baden 2007, pp. 30-35.
- Tobias Krüger: decline and renewal. On the development of the registry plan of the State Archives and State Chancellery of the Canton of Solothurn since 1837. In: Gilbert Coutaz, Gaby Knoch-Mund, Peter Toebak (eds.): Information science: theory, method and practice. Hier + now, Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-03919-142-0 , pp. 171–190.
Publication series
- Publications of the Solothurn State Archives , 1965 ff.
- Sources on the history of Solothurn , 1952 ff.
- Bills from Schönenwerd Monastery , 1967–1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tobias Krüger: decline and renewal. On the development of the registry plan of the State Archives and State Chancellery of the Canton of Solothurn since 1837. In: Gilbert Coutaz, Gaby Knoch-Mund, Peter Toebak (eds.): Information science: theory, method and practice. Hier + now, Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-03919-142-0 , pp. 171–190.
- ^ Andreas Fankhauser: Voitel, Franz. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., Accessed on December 19, 2012.
- ↑ Hellmut Gutzwiller: Amiet, Josef Ignaz. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., Accessed on December 19, 2012.