City archive of Bautzen

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City archive Bautzen
Měšćanski archiw Budyšin

The Bautzener Landhaus is the seat of the city archive and library
The Bautzener Landhaus is the seat of the
city ​​archive and library
Archive type Municipal Archives
Coordinates 51 ° 11 '0 "  N , 14 ° 25' 17.8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 11 '0 "  N , 14 ° 25' 17.8"  E
place Bautzen
Visitor address Schlossstrasse 10-14
ISIL DE-2163 ISIL DE-2163
carrier City of Bautzen
Website archivverbund-bautzen.de

In the city ​​archive of Bautzen ( Upper Sorbian Měšćanski archiw Budyšin ) documents from the city history of Bautzen and the regional history of Upper Lusatia are recorded and archived.

Location and facility

City archive of Bautzen

The city archive has been located in the house of the Upper Lusatian estates, built in 1668, in Bautzen city ​​center , Schloßstraße 10 to 14, also known as the Bautzener Landhaus , since 2001 . Later, it housed the state bank , a military prison during the First World War and, from 1945, the employment office. The city library has been located there since 1947.

history

The city archive stores around 4,500 documents from the period from 1256 to 1902. In addition to the city archives, it also contains documents from the Bautzen Franciscan monastery , which were transferred to the council archive after it was abolished during the Reformation. The oldest piece in the archive is a confirmation of privileges from Pope Alexander IV for the Minorites from January 28, 1256. The second oldest document from July 13, 1262 is a confirmation of the rights of the city issued in Budessin by the Brandenburg margraves Otto and Konrad . The first archiving of documents in chests is believed to be in the 14th century. From 1346 onwards, all correspondence from the Six Cities Association was collected. The first volumes of the Budissin city books (tax receipts, city tariffs, court decisions, city regulations, etc.) were created in 1400. In order to meet the lack of space, two larger rooms ( vaults ) in the town hall were used as storage space. In 1597 the first inventory of the archival material, sorted alphabetically by subject, was made by the council registrar Melchior Birke. Fires in 1620, 1634 and 1704 destroyed parts of the stored documents.

In 1847, the New Archive was introduced to take over the administrative documents, which grew rapidly due to the city regulations of 1835 . In 1887, Hubert Maximilian Ermisch found 3,000 lost documents. In 1900 Paul Arras was appointed as the first part-time archivist for the city archive. In 1914 the archive moved to a new building at Äußere Lauenstraße 23. Willy Mendel, the first full-time archivist from 1938, created the Oberlausitz family tables (family records ) from 1921 to 1966 . The archive survived the war events during the Battle of Bautzen in April 1945 without major damage, thanks to previous relocation. In 1950 it was moved to the Ortenburg .

In 1990 it was first relocated to the justice building on Lessingstrasse and opened to the public again in 1992. In 2001 the move took place to the renovated location at Schloßstraße 10 to 14, where the city archive now shares its purpose-built premises with the Bautzen State Branch Archive and has formed an archive network since 2001. The Staatsfilialarchiv is still de iure a branch of the Main State Archives Dresden and the Free State of Saxony is the owner of the archives of the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia and its successor institutions until 1945/1952, which are, however, looked after and made available for use by the City Archives.

In 2011 the document holdings were digitized. The results of the ongoing development were presented in March 2016.

literature

  • Paul Arras: The Bautzen City Archives . In: New Archive for Saxon History and Archeology, Vol. 27 (1906), p. 350
  • Paul Arras: The city archive of Bautzen . In: Hans Beschorner (Ed.): Archive studies. For Woldemar Lippert's seventieth birthday . Dresden 1931, pp. 1-6
  • Paul Arras: The city archive of Bautzen and its previous use. With a keyword index . In: Neues Lausitzisches Magazin , Vol. 107, 1931, pp. 128–151

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information on the city archive ( Memento from January 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), City of Bautzen
  2. ↑ Bautzener Landhaus (city library). In: architektur-bildarchiv.de. September 14, 2011, accessed February 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Description of the holdings in the European document archive Monasterium.net .
  4. ↑ Potthast No. 16217; Certificate: Documents 0001 (picture and information) in the European document archive Monasterium.net .
  5. ↑ Certificate: Documents 0002 (picture and information) in the European document archive Monasterium.net . The dating is clear, the re-dating to 1282 in the older literature is incomprehensible, but caused by the numerous co-rulers.
  6. ↑ Grit Richter-Laugwitz, Anja Moschke: Municipal and state archives under one roof - the archive network Bautzen . In: Archivpflege in Westfalen-Lippe 65, 2006, pp. 13-17
  7. ↑ Information on the State Branch Archives ( Memento from January 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), City of Bautzen
  8. ^ Report in the Bautzner Anzeiger.
  9. ^ Program of the event in the city archive