City Archives Duisburg

The city archive is located in the building on the right with a red facade and white windows, with the Museum of Culture and City History to the left

The Duisburg City Archives are located at the Duisburg Inner Harbor . It is the second largest municipal archive in North Rhine-Westphalia, which is primarily dedicated to the history of the city ​​of Duisburg . The director is the Düsseldorf archivist Dr. Andreas Pilger. It is used for the purposes of administration and scientific research and is open to the protection of the legitimate interests of those affected and third parties, unless this contradicts the North Rhine-Westphalian Archives Act and other data protection provisions.

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In addition to the files and documents dating back to 1129, the archive has also been collecting Duisburg newspapers since 1727. Around 40,000 photos from the end of the 19th century are archived. In addition, it maintains a reference library of around 35,000 volumes with the collection areas Duisburg city history, the history of the Ruhr area and the Rhineland from the 16th to the 20th century. The collections and the library are accessible through various catalogs and finding aids.

One of the well-known archive pieces is the facsimile of the precisely measured Corputius plan, which shows the city in 1566 from a bird's eye view. The facsimile is exhibited in the neighboring Museum of Culture and City History , with which the archive works.

building

The building of the city archive is a grain silo of the Duisburger Mühlen AG from 1959. After several years of vacancy it was renovated, in 1982 the city archive moved into the rooms.

Web links

Commons : Stadtarchiv Duisburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~1~10122
• Homepage of the Duisburg City Archives
• The city archive on archive.nrw.de
• Historic GEO portal of the City of Duisburg , created by the Surveying, Cadastre and Geoinformation Department of the Office for Building Law and Building Consultancy in cooperation with the Duisburg City Archives
  • Interactive city map of Duisburg in the geoportal
• Holdings of the Duisburg City Archives in the archive portal-D
• Fabian Handbuch: Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany, Austria and Europe. Library of the Duisburg City Archives

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Welcome to the portal of the archives in NRW. In: www.archive.nrw.de. Retrieved October 24, 2016 . 
2. ^ City of Duisburg - Dr. Andreas Pilger is the new head of the city archive. In: www.duisburg.de. Retrieved October 24, 2017 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 12.6 "  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 38.3"  E