State Archives in Eupen
The State Archives in Eupen ( Belgium ) is one of the 19 departments of the Belgian State Archives .
The office has been located in the Rehrmann-Fey house on the edge of Werthplatz near the train station in Eupen , in the province of Liège , in the German-speaking community and has the address Kaperberg 2-4.
history
As part of Belgium's first major state reform in 1973, the desire was first expressed to set up an archive service for the German-speaking areas. It was not until 15 years later, in 1988, that the Minister of the Interior, Louis Tobback, responsible for archives, and the Minister-President of the German-speaking Community, Joseph Maraite , approved the establishment of an archive service in Eupen. The State Archives were in space heritage-protected provided and owned by the city of Eupen detached house Rehrmann-Fey at the foot of Mount capers available, which was built from 1724 to 1728.
In April 1989, the archives relating to the judicial district of Eupen were transferred from Liège. This was followed in November of the same year by an agreement on the management of the archive material deposited with the State Archives in Eupen. Finally, in 1996 the Eupen State Archives were run as a separate department of the Belgian State Archives and since 2013 it has been part of the operational management of the State Archives in the Walloon provinces.
The State Archives in Eupen has been managed by Els Herrebout since 2011 as the successor to long-time director Alfred Minke. The historian René Rohrkamp was at her side as deputy head of the department from 2012 to 2014 and the historian and archivist Peter M. Quadflieg has been performing this task since June 2017 .
Archival material
The State Archives in Eupen preserves the archives of institutions or local authorities, families or natural persons who have or had their seat in the judicial district of Eupen in the province of Liège. This judicial district now includes the communities Eupen, Amel , Büllingen , Burg-Reuland , Bütgenbach , Kelmis , Lontzen , Raeren and Sankt Vith .
The following archival material can be viewed by the public within the framework of legal regulations:
- the archives of the local authorities of the Ancien Régime : glories, etc.,
- Court archives: Malmedy Public Prosecutor's Office, Verviers Commercial Court (1931), Eupen Police Court (1945–1974) and Malmedy (1920–1932), Bütgenbach Peace Court (1789–1797), Eupen (1852–1861) and Malmedy (1820–1942) etc.,
- the archives of the decentralized services of the federal state,
- the archives of the regional authorities: District Commissioners Eupen (1919–1940) and Malmedy (1919–1923), Eupen-Malmedy Governorate (1873–1925), etc.,
- Community archives, including the historical archive of the city of Eupen,
- Documents of the administration of the German-speaking Community of Belgium,
- Archives of notaries in the judicial district of Eupen: A. Spiess (1901–1919), A. Theissen (1776–1800), AT Ahrweiler (1823–1825), AT Bartholet (1738–1769), C. Baptiste (1793–1829) etc. .,
- Church registers,
- Civil register,
- Church archives, e.g. B. Capuchin monastery Eupen (1750–1796), parishes, Protestant church Eupen etc.,
- Company archives: Bütgenbach dairies (1932–1941), Engelsdorf / Ligneuville (1931–1940), Mirfeld (1934–1943), Nidrum (1934–1941), Wilhelm Peters and Co. (Eupen) etc. as well
- Archives of private individuals who have played an important role in the social life of the region.
Digital reading room
From August 2009 the church and civil status registers were digitized step by step and made available to the public in the 19 reading rooms of the State Archives, including the reading room in Eupen.
Since January 2013, 24,000 parish registers and a steadily increasing number of civil status registers can be viewed free of charge on the State Archives' website.
Other archival holdings can also be consulted in the digital reading room or on the State Archives website: the minutes of the Councils of Ministers (1918–1979), the Statistical Yearbook of Belgium (and of the Belgian Congo) since 1870, over 20,000 cast seals, etc.
bibliography
- Alfred Minke: The holdings of the State Archives in Eupen - general overview (judicial district Eupen) - 2nd expanded and improved edition , series Archives générales du Royaume et Archives de l'État dans les Provinces: Guides. Volume 48 , Brussels, 2000, 246 pp.
- Peter Quadflieg, The holdings of the State Archives in Eupen (General State Archives and State Archives in the Provinces Archive Guide Vol. 93), 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition , Brussels 2019, 641 pp.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Eupen: Els Herrebout new director of the State Archives , news item on BRF of April 8, 2011
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '53.8 " N , 6 ° 2' 25.4" E