Bern City Archives
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_11.JPG) The city archive in the extension of the Bern Historical Museum |
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| Archive type | Municipal Archives |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 56 '34 " N , 7 ° 27' 0" E |
| place | Bern , Canton of Bern |
| Visitor address | Helvetiastrasse 6, 3005 Bern |
| founding | 1803 |
| ISIL | CH-000117-0 |
| Website | bern.ch |
The Bern City Archives are the city archives of the Swiss city of Bern . It was created on the occasion of the separation of the canton and city of Bern in 1803.
Order and inventory
The city archive «serves to secure, store, index and evaluate files that are of legal or historical importance for the city of Bern». It includes, among other things, city documents from Bern from 1146, archives of the old city republic of Bern from around 1400 to 1832, administrative matters of the city administration from 1832 and the archive of the former municipality of Bümpliz , which includes documents from 1680 to 1919.
It also includes “city history collections such as books, newspapers, magazines, brochures, maps, plans, photos, audio documents and objects” as well as (partial) estates from Alphonse Bandelier , Albert Einstein , Theodor Kocher , Carl Albert Loosli (“Philosopher von Bümpliz ») And Friedrich Scheuner .
The holdings of the Bern Welfare Directorate from 1920 to 1960 are important for the historical processing of Swiss social history thanks to the “full archiving of case files over forty years”.
ladder
Head of the city library since it was founded in 1803
- Ludwig Jakob Güder, 1803–1812
- Friedrich von Graffenried, 1812–1815
- Rudolf Emanuel Wildbolz, 1815–1818
- Beat Ludwig Messmer, 1818–1831
- Wilhelm König, 1831–1840
- Simon Ludwig Rudolf von Wurstemberger, 1840–1854
- Eduard Lutz-Tribolet, 1855–1861
- Bernhard August Simon, 1861–1863
- Albert Zeerleder, 1864–1871
- Alphons Bandelier, 1871–1874
- Rudolf Stettler, 1875–1888
- Alphons Bandelier, 1888–1916
- Hans Markwalder, 1916–1950
- Bernhard Wullschleger, 1951–1953
- Walter Biber, 1953–1975
- Guido Schmezer (* 1924; † 2019), 1975–1989
- Emil Erne (* 1948), 1990–2011
- Roland Gerber since 2011
literature
- Emil Erne : The Bern City Archives: History - Location - Holdings . In: Bernisches Historisches Museum , Burgerbibliothek Bern , Historical Association of the Canton of Bern , State Archives of the Canton of Bern , City Archives of Bern, University Library of Bern (Ed.): Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte . 72nd year, no. 1 , 2010, ISSN 0005-9420 , p. 3–89 (118 pp., E-periodica.ch [accessed on 23 August 2017]).
- Historical Association of the Canton of Bern (Ed.): History of the Canton of Bern since 1798 . tape 1-4 (1982-1996) . Bern ( made available online by the city archives [accessed on October 17, 2015] Authors: Beat Junker [1982, 1990, 1996], Christian Pfister [1995]).
See also
Web links
References and comments
- ^ Website of the Bern City Archives
- ↑ a b The Bern City Archives on Infoclio.ch
- ^ The Bern City Archives in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
- ↑ Fredi Lerch : Berns "Liederliche" and "Arbeitsscheue" . An interview with city archivist Roland Gerber. In: Journal B . Bern January 24, 2014 ( journal-b.ch [accessed October 17, 2015]).