Brilon City Archives
| Brilon City Archives
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 Gartenstrasse 13 |
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| Archive type | Municipal Archives |
| place | Brilon, Gartenstrasse 13 |
| Visitor address | Gartenstrasse 13 |
| scope | Online overview of stocks |
| carrier | City of Brilon |
| Website | Info on the LWL website |
The Brilon City Archive is a municipal archive in which the historical records of the Westphalian city of Brilon are secured and made accessible to the public. Since March 1, 2016, the city archive has been located in Haus Goldberg and is officially called "Stadtarchiv Brilon im Haus Goldberg".
The oldest holdings in the city archive date back to the 13th century. Official as well as non-official archives from the history of the city of Brilon as well as their residential areas, the districts and the desert are stored .
history
The city archive until 1800
The first indications that something was archived in the city can be found in the council book of 1497. There is talk of a "box" that is in the "tzisekammer" (tax chamber or treasury) in the Brilon town hall. Since the archive box was apparently not very well looked after, the city secretary Hinrich Crop set about writing down an exact description of the Schnade with a copy of all border recessions in the council book in 1595. Thus the council representatives had precise instructions for the Schnade in the next year and did not have to look for the documents from the archive box. In addition to the Schnaderezessen, Crop transferred other important certificates and documents to the council book.
A first direct record of the archive has been preserved from the year 1639, in which the contents of the archive box are described as “two bundles”, in which no order could be recognized. A big problem in the archival history of Brilon is that many mayors and town clerks kept archives at home instead of keeping them in the town hall.
Numerous documents and files were destroyed by city fires in the 18th century. Perhaps the worst fire occurred in 1742: in the fire that destroyed large parts of Brilon, the houses of many important Brilon personalities burned down, with numerous important files and documents being burned. In addition, the rifle book with the names of all members and the rifle shrine, first mentioned in 1593, were lost in this fire. As a consequence of this devastating fire, the first service instruction of the new city secretary Johann Adolf Ferdinand Vasbach was on August 1, 1743 that all files of the city should be collected and recorded in the town hall.
The city archive in the 19th century
When the Duchy of Westphalia , to which the city of Brilon belonged, was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt and later into the Prussian state at the beginning of the 19th century , the local self-government of the Brilon people was abolished. Instead, the main rights were given to the newly created circles in 1817. With the inclusion of the original cadastre from 1828 to 1830 and the continuation in the state cadastral offices, the old documents in the archive chest lost more and more importance. The Schnaderezesse were now obsolete, since the land registry offices kept records of the city limits.
The old archive chest was destroyed in 1820 because its content had lost its importance and was probably viewed as a useless burden. Archives seem to have been neglected in other cities too; because in 1832 the head of the President ordered Province of Westphalia to, Archivrepertorien , ie lists of archives to create an archive. However, this task was neglected by the mayors as they allegedly did not have time for it. Two years later, in 1834, the district administrator of the Brilon district , Maximilian Droste zu Vischering-Padberg , asked the historian Johann Suitbert Seibertz to look into the archive and create the repertories. Seibertz refused, but had a lot of archive material brought to his house in Arnsberg and his retirement home, Schloss Wildenberg , in order to process Westphalian history. Soon afterwards the city demanded these files and documents back; Seibertz kept it, however.
It was not until 1858 that the mayors Nikolaus Hesse and Friedrich Boese devoted themselves to the archive. In the period from 1858 to 1865, Hesse tried to write his own archive repertory, but got stuck at the beginning of the work. Instead, Boese tried to add to Seibertz's notes. In 1871 Seibertz's death and Friedrich Boese's resignation from the mayor's office coincided. As a result, Seibertz failed to reclaim the files and documents. Instead, Engelbert Seibertz , Johann Suitbert Seibertz's grandson, sold the Brilon files that were with his grandfather in 1898. Some of the files ended up in the Altena Castle Archives, other files were later returned to the City Archives via a detour.
The city archive in the 20th century
In 1924, the city's oldest document from 1252 appeared on the floor of the town hall and was handed over to the Münster State Archives as a deposit , as it could not be properly stored in Brilon. In 1937, Rudolf Sprick tried again to record the holdings of the archive by typing in a document book. He too failed because of the mass of single sheets of files. The holdings were moved from the damp archive room on the ground floor to the room above on the first floor and packed in archive boxes.
During the Second World War , the stocks, some of which were now also stored in cardboard boxes, were moved to the attic of the town hall. Later during the war, the archival boxes of the files were used for other purposes, so that the valuable files lay in a confused heap in the attic of the town hall. Mold formation and water damage were not absent in this area, so that from the 1960s onwards, some files had to be restored by the State Office for Archives Maintenance in Münster .
From the mid-1960s, the archive was repaired and equipped by the archive office in Münster under the direction of Alfred Bruns. Among other things, Bruns properly inventoried and archived large parts of the Brilon archive material. After the Thülen office was incorporated in 1975, its archives were also added. Since the Landsarchivgesetz (Land Archives Act) came into force in 1986, the city archive has been managed on a full-time basis. In 1990 the city archives moved into the former canteen on the top floor of the office building, the former Thülen office. In addition, the roof terrace was raised to a storage room.
The archive of the Thülen office
Before Brilon and the villages in the area became Prussian at the beginning of the 19th century, large parts of the villages belonged to various monasteries and nobles, such as the Counts of Meschede and later the Counts of Bocholtz in Alme or the Bredelar Monastery ( Madfeld and Rösenbeck ) . The files from this period are thus scattered across many different archives. In the course of the restructuring in the Kingdom of Prussia, local self-government was introduced. In order to keep the administrative burden low, municipalities were merged into offices that carried out the administration of the associated municipalities centrally. Such an office was originally in Thülen resident and later in Brilon Office Thülen . There are no known records about the official archives, only with the incorporation to Brilon in 1975 the files were viewed and inventoried by the State Archives Office in Münster.
Stocks
The holdings of the Brilon City Archives are divided into
| Duration | running time |
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| A - certificates | 1196 / 1252-1815 |
| A - files | 1497-1815 |
| B - files | 1815-1870 |
| C - files | 1860-1930 |
| D - files | 1930-1970 |
| H - log books | 1749-1972 |
| I - Brilon High School files | 1839-1915 |
| K - General administrative matters | 1814-1924 |
| L - road and path construction | 1835-1853 |
| M - agriculture | 1852-1930 |
| Office Thülen - A | 1826-1930 |
| Office Thülen - B. | Construction files (duration unknown) |
| Office Thülen - T | 1930-1975 |
Newspaper archive
As one of the few archives in the Hochsauerlandkreis, the city archive has an almost complete collection of newspapers since 1842. The oldest newspapers are the weekly newspaper for the Brilon district and the Sauerländer Anzeiger, which was published by the Jewish Friedländer family from 1852 to 1904.
List of all newspapers in the archive
- General Kölnische Rundschau
- Brilon indicator
- Brilon newspaper
- Diemel messenger
- Cologne Newspaper
- New Westphalian courier
- New Westphalian Volksblatt
- Sauerland indicator
- Sauerländer Tageblatt
- Sauerland newspaper
- People's echo
- Warsteiner newspaper
- Westfalenpost
- Westfälische Landeszeitung
- Westfälische Rundschau
- Westfälisches Tagblatt
- Westfälisches Volksblatt
- Weekly newspaper for the Brilon district
City Archives Library
The archive library, which is equipped with 2,400 books, contains a large collection of literature about the city and its villages as well as institutions and associations. Address and telephone books for the region are also available. There is also literature on neighboring cities and various topics of regional importance such as the Hanseatic League , mining and metallurgy, forest and wood, traffic, industry and handicrafts ( bell casting ). There is also literature available to users about the twin cities of Brilon, the history of the Electorate of Cologne and Westphalia, and many other topics. Most of the media from the library can also be borrowed and studied at home.
literature
- Alfred Bruns: Inventory of the Brilon City Archives, holdings A. On behalf of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association. Aschendorff publishing house, Münster 1970.
- Alfred Bruns: Office Thülen, history and tradition. Brilon 1974.
- City of Brilon (Ed.): 750 years of the city of Brilon. 1970.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Alfred Bruns: Inventory of the Brilon City Archives, holdings A. On behalf of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association. Aschendorff publishing house, Münster 1970.
- ^ City of Brilon (ed.): 750 years of the city of Brilon. 1970, pp. 67-71.
- ↑ a b City of Brilon (ed.): 750 years city of Brilon. 1970, p. 71.
- ^ Alfred Bruns: Inventory of the Brilon City Archives, holdings A. On behalf of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association. Verlag Aschendorff, Münster 1970, introduction, p. XII.
- ^ City of Brilon (ed.): 750 years of the city of Brilon. 1970, pp. 72-73.
- ↑ a b Result of the research in the Brilon City Archives
- ↑ archive.nrw.de
- ^ Sauerlandkurier of April 8, 2015.