City archive of Emden

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The City Archives Emden is a municipal archive in the independent city of Emden in East Frisia . According to the company's own information, it is "one of the largest municipal archives in Lower Saxony in terms of space and inventory." It preserves official, but also non-official archives from the history of the city since the late 15th century.

history

City documents and privileges have been kept in the so-called secret chamber of the town hall since the 16th century . At the beginning of the 17th Century was on the orders of city counsel Johannes Althusius particularly promoted the archives. The background was that the legal scholar wanted to have old chartered rights and other archive material quickly to hand in disputes in the constant battle with the East Frisian Count House of Cirksena . He also based his political science writings in part on material from the city archive.

After the takeover of East Frisia by Prussia, Emden lost many of the urban privileges that still existed in the county of East Frisia. In the following decades, the city archives mainly collected city files.

During the Second World War the archive was relocated several times, as a result of which a large number of archive materials were lost. After the war, the archival material began to be viewed and classified again.

Stocks

The archive has around 500 documents, 150 manuscripts, 8,000 pamphlets, 10,000 books and 70,000 files. The outstanding documents include the confirmation of the stacking right on the Ems from 1494 and the award of the city ​​coat of arms from 1495 by King Maximilian I. There are a total of around 1,600 linear meters of archive material from the 15th to the 20th century. A large part of the archive material is housed in a former World War II bunker in the center of the city , only about 300 meters from the main building of the city administration.

staff

The archive is managed by Rolf Uphoff. There are four employees at his side.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.emden.de: Stadtarchiv ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.emden.de
  2. ^ The history of the city archive of Emden

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