Eisenach city archive
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| Archive type | Municipal Archives |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 58 '30 " N , 10 ° 19' 12.1" E |
| place | Eisenach |
| Visitor address | Market 24 |
| founding | (not used) |
| ISIL | DE-Ei5 |
| carrier | City of Eisenach |
| Website | https://www.eisenach.de/leben/bildung/stadtarchiv#c28940 |
The Eisenach city archive is the archive of the city of Eisenach ; it keeps documents from 1493 to the present day. The Eisenach city archive is one of the larger Thuringian city archives and stores, among other things, the important economic archive of the Eisenach automobile plant (AWE), which existed from 1945 to 1991 .
history
There is only sparse information about the Eisenach city archive from older times. However, a city archive already existed in the Middle Ages. It was located in a fireproof vault in the southeastern part of the old town hall in front of the Georgenkirche , which was expanded in 1484 and demolished in 1743 . There are no records of the time this archive was set up or its order.
In the Stadtweinkeller, today's town hall , on the other hand, which the town council had to set up as an official building when Duke Johann Ernst took advantage of the old town hall as a princely chancellery when he moved his residence to Eisenach in 1596, there is evidence of a letter chamber in 1622, but a fire-proof archival vault undetectable. That is the reason why, in the great city fire of 1636, the documents stored in the town hall, including the library, were almost completely destroyed. In the 17th century, the archive was finally given a fire-proof vault in the rebuilt town hall.
Fortunately, the most valuable archive materials were moved to the Reutervilla in Eisenach in good time when the town hall complex, in which the archive was located, was badly hit by an aerial mine on February 9, 1945 . In order to save the other archive materials that had been affected by the destruction, they were temporarily housed in the main post office and in Karlstrasse 4 in May 1946 and moved to the rear building of the palace in July 1949 . The archive is still located here today. As a result of the war, the loss of not only many files, but also the collection of seals and seals, most of the library, almost all pictures and many years of the Eisenach daily newspapers is to be deplored.
Archivists
In the course of its existence, the archive has mostly lacked professional support and was only brought into order from time to time. First and foremost, the town clerk came into consideration. The lack of appreciation for the archival material reflects the poor statement about the Eisenach city archive in the "Guide to Thuringia's Historical Archives" (Gotha, 1900). The old files were lying on the town hall floor, disorganized and half rotten.
Only after the First World War did Erich Keil begin reorganizing the neglected holdings. He was followed in 1925 by the Eisenach local history researcher Hugo Peter, after his death until 1937 and from 1943 to 1945 by the teacher Hermann Kühn and from 1937 to 1942 Ulrich Nicolai. While the administrators of the city archives had previously only been active on a part-time basis, on August 1, 1952, Hans Eberhard Matthes was employed as the first full-time city archivist. He held office until his death in 1981. From 1991 the historian Reinhold Brunner was a full-time city archivist until he was appointed head of the newly formed Office for Education in 2014 . Christopher Launert was his successor as head of the city archives.
Jurisdiction
The Eisenach city archive is the archive of the city administration. It stores written documents (e.g. certificates, official books, files, maps and plans, seals , stamps, etc.) that have been created in the administration of the city of Eisenach since the 17th century, and regularly takes over documents from ongoing business operations. In addition, the city archive collects other documents that reflect the past and present of the city of Eisenach (e.g. pamphlets, newspapers, posters, pictures, leaflets, films and the like). The Eisenach City Archives have already taken over archives from other sources in the past (from companies, associations, political parties or personal papers). The archives of the villages that were incorporated into Eisenach between 1994 and 1998 are also kept.
Stocks
The holdings of the Eisenach City Archives encompass approx. 1,804 running meters, divided into 4 main departments.
Department I: Certificates
Due to the city fire of 1636, when the city archive burned down with all the documents, the archive does not have organically grown holdings. The whereabouts of the documents written since 1636 is unclear. The 69 pieces of documents that have survived to this day are a mere collection without any provenance .
Main Department II: Urban Provenances
This contains, subdivided into 4 departments and 19 stocks, the files that have been created by the city administration since 1636, documents from institutions that were later assigned to the city, documents from municipal companies (electricity, gas and water works, city savings bank and slaughterhouse) and Construction files.
Main Department III: Official Books
This contains, subdivided into 15 files, the official books of the city of Eisenach, including the city accounts since 1617, the minutes books of the council since 1558 and the civil registers since 1600.
Department IV: Non-Urban Provenances
This contains, subdivided into 11 stocks, the records of the economy, including the entire archive of the former Eisenach Automobile Plant (AWE), subdivided into 7 stocks, the records of associations, societies and parties, subdivided into 11 stocks, the files of the after 1994 The localities incorporated in Eisenach , subdivided into 2 holdings, the archives of authorities resident in Eisenach, subdivided into 6 holdings, the so-called collection items, including various handwritten city chronicles from the 17th to 19th centuries, subdivided into 35 holdings, the estates of various Eisenach personalities , subdivided into 12 collections, the audiovisual media, including more than 100,000 photos, negatives and graphics as well as approx. 100, partly digitized films, approx. 3,000 maps and plans and a library with approx. 5,000 books.
literature
- Brunner, Reinhold: The Eisenach city archive and the purpose of historical transmission. In: City of Time. Eisenach current, June 1997.
- Brunner, Reinhold: Archive collections - necessary evil or central archive material category? Considerations using the example of the Eisenach city archive. In: Archives in Thuringia. Special issue, Weimar 2003, pp. 6-14.
- Guide to the Thuringia Historical Archives , ed. by Paul Mitzschke, Gotha 1900, p. 17.
- Archive Guide Thuringia , ed. from the Thuringia Archive Advice Center, Weimar, 1999, pp. 164–167.
- Archives in the Federal Republic of Germany , Austria and Switzerland, 15th edition, Münster 1995, p. 129.
