Chemnitz City Archives
| Chemnitz City Archives
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 Archive building (2013) |
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| Archive type | Municipal Archives |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 49 '40.1 " N , 12 ° 55' 3.4" E |
| place | Chemnitz |
| Visitor address | Aue 16 |
| ISIL | DE-Ch105 ISIL DE-Ch105 |
| carrier | City of Chemnitz |
| Website | www.chemnitz.de |
The City Archives Chemnitz is the archive of the city of Chemnitz in the Free State of Saxony .
history
The holdings include the official records of the city council and its individual institutions and go back to the beginnings of the city's administrative activities. Tradition begins in the 16th – 17th centuries. Century, the oldest document is from 1296 and the oldest city book from the year 1426. The archive also contains the holdings of the villages that were incorporated between 1844 and 1999. In addition, the written records of numerous craft guilds such as privileges , articles or handicraft and account books are there. There are also numerous bequests, collections, a plan and picture archive and a 34,000-volume library in the archive.
The city archive and library have been located in the former municipal pawnshop, Aue 16, since 1953.
Directors or leaders
- Paul Uhle
- 1947–1971: Rudolph Strauss
- 1971–1981: Helmut Bräuer
- 1981–1994: Gert Richter
- 1995–2016: Gabriele Viertel
- since February 2017: Paolo Cecconi
Publications (selection)
- Searching for traces: Jewish citizens in Chemnitz. Places of her life and work, places of remembrance . Chemnitz 2002
- Karl-Marx-Stadt 1989 - Chemnitz 2009: a city in transition. Chronicle in words and pictures . Erfurt 2009
- The heart of the city: Chemnitz and its new town hall. City, citizens and administration from the beginning until 1911 . Chemnitz 2011
In addition, the city archive carries out topic-related research and publishes the resulting publications in the series From the city archive of Chemnitz .
literature
- Rudolph Strauss: On the history of the Karl-Marx-Stadt city archive . In: Archive Messages 13, 1963, Issue 3, pp. 111–114.