City Archives Erfurt

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City Archives Erfurt

City Archives Erfurt
City Archives Erfurt
Archive type Municipal Archives
place Erfurt
Visitor address Gotthardtstrasse 21
founding 1865
scope 5 running km
ISIL DE-Ef31
carrier City of Erfurt
Website www.erfurt.de

The city ​​archive of Erfurt is the archive of the city administration and the city of Erfurt . It keeps documents from 1144 to the present day.

The Erfurt City Archives are the largest Thuringian city archives and keep the oldest surviving original German-language document, the Erfurt Judeneid .

history

Certificates and other important documents have been kept in the city of Erfurt since the 13th century . The first written evidence of an archive comes from the 15th century. But it was not until the middle of the 19th century that the holdings were stored and looked after by an archivist. In 1863 the retired Prussian state archivist Heinrich Beyer took on this task. A little later he was officially commissioned by the city of Erfurt to set up an archive. Since that time, the year 1865, one speaks of the Erfurt city archive.

In September 1867, the city archives moved from the Martinsstift, where it had been since the demolition of the old town hall, into three large rooms of the Great Hospital . In 1875 Heinrich Beyer prepared to move the archive from the Great Hospital to the newly built town hall , in which rooms had been set up especially for the city archive. Since 1876 the archive material has been kept in the town hall for a total of 118 years.

In 1903 the city archivist Alfred Overmann initiated an extensive exchange of archives with the Magdeburg State Archives . A number of archives that had left Erfurt in 1664 after the city had been subjugated to the rule of the Archbishop of Mainz and that had reached the Prussian State Archives in Magdeburg in the course of time, returned to Erfurt; In return, however, archive material (from the Prussian and French administration, from monasteries and monasteries) had to be given to Magdeburg .

Due to a lack of space, archive material began to be outsourced in 1953 and stored in larger rooms outside the town hall. The city archive has been completely housed in the building at Gotthardtstrasse 21 since 1994. In 1952 the administrative archive of the city of Erfurt was founded and 27 years later it was incorporated into the city archive. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the Erfurt city archive was closed to public traffic from March 16, 2020 to May 6, 2020.

Head (term of office)

  • Heinrich Beyer (1864–1872)
  • Carl Beyer (archivist) (1882–1900 / death)
  • Georg Oergel (1900–1901), acting
  • Alfred Overmann (1901–1932 / 1933)
  • Walter Dieck (1934–1935), acting
  • Werner Schnellenkamp (1935–1940 / fallen)
  • Erich Wiemann (1941–1945 / dismissed)
  • Hermann Meinert (1945–1946)
  • Kurt Teubner (1946–1947 / dismissed)
  • Erich Wiemann (1947–1948), voluntary
  • Hildegard Schmidt (1948–1951), acting
  • Fritz Wiegand (1951–1970)
  • Kurt Harland (1970–1973)
  • Fritz Wiegand (1973–1974), acting
  • Bodo Fischer (1974–1990)
  • Hannelore Jakob (1990)
  • Bodo Fischer (1990–1992), acting
  • Rudolf Benl (1992-2013)
  • Antje Bauer (since 2013)

Jurisdiction

The Erfurt City Archives are the archives of the Erfurt 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 Erfurt since the 13th century and regularly takes over records from the current administration, if it is ready for archiving and worthy of archiving . Furthermore, the city archive collects documentation that is or could be of importance for the present and the history of the city of Erfurt (e.g. pamphlets, newspapers , posters , pictures , leaflets and the like). The Erfurt City Archives have already taken over archives of other provenance in the past (from guilds , companies, cooperatives , associations, parties or the estates of private individuals), provided that they complement the archive's holdings or are of importance for the history of the city. In addition, the archives of the approximately 40 villages incorporated between 1911 and 1994 are kept. In the course of the exchange of archives with the Magdeburg State Archives, the year 1664 was set as the limit year for records from the University of Erfurt . As a result, documents from the University of Erfurt (1392–1816) from the period before 1664 can be found in the Erfurt City Archives and documents after 1664 are mostly in the Magdeburg State Archives.

Stocks

The holdings of the Erfurt City Archives comprise approx. 5000 running meters , which are divided into 9 departments. The archive holds around 15,000 documents and around 450 seals and stamps.

The "Jew oath" of the Archbishop of Mainz Konrad von Wittelsbach (1183–1200)
  • Department 0: Documents from the city of Erfurt, documents from churches and monasteries, craft and guild documents as well as private documents. There are also seal impressions and seal stamps in this department.
  • Department 1: files of the city of Erfurt and the incorporated localities
  • Department 2: Official Books, e.g. B. Inhabitants register, council books, books for elementary and Building Taxes
  • Department 3: Official Publications; the Erfurt city archive owns, among other things, Erfurt daily newspapers from 1815
  • Department 4: City Archives Service Library. It comprises 15,000 titles from the 16th century onwards, as well as two bequests, the Hermann and Benary libraries.
  • Department 5: Collections and deposits, including gifts to the city, handwritten chronicles , bequests, doctoral theses , posters, documents on the family history of some Erfurt families, documents from other origins, e.g. B. by private individuals, companies and associations
  • Department 6: Pictures, including 5,000 paper positives, 27,000 small picture negatives , 300 slides , 13,700 glass plates , 1,000 postcards , some photo albums, film rolls and videos
  • Department 7: Drawings, plans and maps, including 35 cartographic compilations from the 18th and 19th centuries, approx. 20,000 architectural drawings and around 720 maps of Erfurt and Thuringia
  • Department 8: not used
  • Department 9: Finding aids, such as outline, registry and file plans of the administration, finding aids and index cards of the city archive, as well as finding aids from other Erfurt and foreign archives
  • Administrative archive: records of the city administration etc.

Almost all of the archive's holdings can be viewed in the reading room in accordance with the current usage regulations of the city archive . The majority of the holdings are available as online finding aids, which can be viewed on the Thuringia archive portal. The holdings of the service library can be researched in the online catalog at Erfurt.de. For conservation reasons, newspapers can only be used as microfilm .

Publications

  • The Erfurt Princely Congress 1808 - Background, Procedure, Effect . Edited by Rudolf Benl. 383 S., Erfurt 2008 (Publications of the Erfurt City Archives; 1) ISBN 978-3-941020-00-9
  • The Erfurt City Archives - its history, its holdings , Ed. Rudolf Benl. 398 S., Erfurt 2008 (Publications of the Erfurt City Archives; 2) ISBN 978-3-941020-01-6
  • Richard Wetz (1875–1935) - a composer from Erfurt . Edited by Rudolf Benl. 367 S., Erfurt 2010 (Publications of the City Archives; 3) ISBN 978-3-941020-03-0
  • Erfurt. Pictures and story (s) . Edited by Antje Bauer. 164 pp., Erfurt 2017 (Publications of the City Archives; 4) ISBN 978-3-934277-74-8

Literature about the archive

Comprehensive reference works

  • Archives in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Switzerland , 19th edition, Münster 2006, p. 61.
  • Archive guide Thuringia . Edited by the Thuringia archive advice center, Weimar 1999, pp. 169–174.
  • International Directory of Archives , Munich 1992, p. 199.

Special literature

  • Archival references to the history of the German labor movement in the Erfurt City Archives , edited and published by the Erfurt City Archives in conjunction with the Scientific Collective for Research into Erfurt's Local History, (= Contributions to the History of the City of Erfurt, Volume 9) Erfurt 1966.
  • Rudolf Benl: The history of Erfurt and the genealogical sources kept in the Erfurt city archive . In: Genealogy 22 (43rd volume) (1994), pp. 193-206.
  • Rudolf Benl: Sources on the early history of the Volkstedter porcelain manufactory in the Erfurt city archive . In: Archive in Thüringen 2/2005, pp. 15-17.
  • Jürgen Kiefer: Overview of the documents of the former "Academy of useful (non-profit) sciences" in Erfurt (1754–1945) . In: Contributions to the university and science history of Erfurt 20 (1984–1986), pp. 27–57.
  • Brigitte Weber and Rudolf Benl: Library of the Erfurt City Archives . In: Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany. Vol. 19: Thuringia A – G. Edited by Felicitas Marwinski, Hildesheim - Zurich - New York 1998, pp. 218–220.
  • Fritz Wiegand: The documents of the former University of Erfurt in the archives of Magdeburg and Erfurt . In: Contributions to the history of the University of Erfurt (1392–1816) Issue 2, 2nd, improved edition, Erfurt 1962.
  • Antje Bauer: 150 years of scientifically supervised Erfurt City Archives , in: Archives in Thuringia. Mitteilungsblatt (2015), pp. 48–50 { http://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/jportal_derivate_00243893/ArchiveinThnnringen_Mitteilungsblatt_2015.pdf pdf}

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b City Archives , website of the city of Erfurt.
  2. ^ Archive portal Thuringia .

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