Gütersloh City Archives

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Gütersloh City Archives

Entrance area of ​​the city archive
Entrance area of ​​the city archive
Archive type Municipal Archives
Coordinates 51 ° 54 '44.6 "  N , 8 ° 22' 30.3"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 54 '44.6 "  N , 8 ° 22' 30.3"  E
place Gutersloh
Visitor address Moltkestrasse 47
founding 1984
ISIL DE-Gtl1
Website https://www.guetersloh.de/de/rathaus/fachbereich-und-einrichtungen/stadtarchiv.php

The Stadtarchiv Gütersloh is the municipal archive of the city of Gütersloh in the district of the same name in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The city archive has existed since 1984. In 1989, a 207 m² warehouse was added to the archive building at Hohenzollernstrasse 30a, the former company building of the Schlüppmann joinery.

In October 2018, the city archive and the Gütersloh district archive moved into the building of the former rainbow school at Moltkestrasse 47.

tasks

The Gütersloh City Archive holds holdings for historical and regional research and documentation. One of the core tasks is the permanent safeguarding of the documents and collections of the city administration and other municipal institutions since 1809. It offers the possibility of archiving Gütersloh estates. The creation and archiving of collections of non-municipal origin is also one of the tasks of the city archive. This includes:

  • Pamphlets, newspapers, magazines
  • Newspaper clipping collections
  • Sound and image collections
  • Posters
  • Maps, plans, drawings
  • Contemporary history collections (leaflets, leaflets, brochures)
  • Collection of company letterheads
  • Audiovisual and digital media
  • City and regional history library (reference inventory)
  • Private estates and deposits

The services include:

  • Advice and information on questions of city history and family research
  • Participation in exhibitions
  • Support of school projects, technical work, history competitions, lectures
  • Making copies of historical newspapers
  • Archive tours for groups
  • Internships for schoolchildren, students and professional rehabilitation and advanced training measures

Stocks

All files can be searched using the AUGIAS archive program . For the holdings from 1815 to 1910, there are also finding aids with registers of persons, places and subjects. The holdings from 1911 to the present day can only be viewed in the archive's database. The council and committee minutes are arranged chronologically and by subject area. To supplement the files, the city archives create collections that mainly contain items of non-municipal origin:

Booklet collection Administrative printed matter, celebratory and anniversary publications from clubs, companies, associations, individuals, small publications on city and regional history, e.g. Currently a total of approx. 8500 copies, which are accessible via a database and a cross catalog.
Magazine collection Magazines and periodicals on local, regional and national history.
Newspaper collection Originals of the newspapers that have appeared regularly in Gütersloh since 1883.
Newspaper Clippings Collection (ZAS) Currently in 483 folders press articles from the Neue Westfälische, Glocke and Westfalenblatt and their predecessors, sorted by subject and subject
Sound and image collection Approx. 35,000 photos and 10,000 slides from 1880: u. a. Portraits, street views, public buildings, companies, anniversary and festive events, postcards, aerial photographs.
Poster collection Posters from political and cultural events, appeals and notices since 1914.
Collections of maps, plans, drawings Area maps, city plans, cadastral records from the 17th century (some reprints), construction drawings and drawings of technical equipment.
Contemporary history collection Old and new pamphlets, leaflets, programs, invitations, information and printed advertising material from all areas of urban life, partly also from neighboring towns.
Local history library More than 6,000 volumes on local and regional history, indexes of sources, bibliographies, encyclopedias, and Low German literature.
Administrative library Collection of laws, ministerial and ordinance sheets, specialist literature, etc. a. on administrative, legal, tax, regulatory, building and school matters from 1815.
Private estates and deposits Deposits are archive materials that have only been given to the city archive for storage and use.

Collection of local newspapers

The city archive collects the original editions of the daily newspapers, district newspapers and advertising papers published in the city area:

  • Public gazette for the district of Wiedenbrück, 1833
  • Gütersloher weekly newspaper, 1883
  • The messenger on the Ems, 1885–1894
  • New Westphalians and their predecessors from 1884
  • Gütersloher newspaper
  • New Gütersloher newspaper
  • Gütersloher Tageblatt
  • Westphalian latest news
  • Gütersloh city gazette
  • Free press
  • Westphalian newspaper
  • Westfalen-Blatt and its precursors
  • Gütersloher Morgenblatt
  • Westphalia newspaper
  • The bell , born in 1936 and from 1950
  • War reports in the Gütersloher Zeitung 1914–1916
  • Home in words and pictures - supplement to the Gütersloher Zeitung 1927–1966
  • Home pages of the bell 1920–1930, 1949 f.
  • The bell on Sunday 1928–1929, 1932
  • Olympic Newspaper 1936
  • Official news bulletin for the Wiedenbrück district 1946–1948
  • Bonewie (from 1980)
  • GT info (from 1976)
  • Guetsel.de (from 2003)
  • The Kattenbote (from 2005)
  • Lebendiges Isselhorst (formerly: Der Isselhorster) (from 1977)

genealogy

The city archive also helps with family history research, known as genealogical research. The following is available in detail:

  • Population registers of the city and the surrounding area from 1903 to 1999
  • Old card index of the residents' registration office with those subject to registration from approx. 1909 to 1977
  • Civil registry including name index
  • Births until 1905
  • Marriages until 1935
  • Deaths up to 1985
  • Copies of the church registers of the Protestant community in Gütersloh
  • Baptism book 1675 to 1732
  • Traubuch 1675 to 1732
  • Book of the Dead 1712 to 1732
  • Copies of archival material from the Princely Archives Rheda
  • Manuals (handwritten memorandum) of the judge Ottonis Gütersloh from 1578 (including listing of all residents)
  • Office minutes 1722–1727, 1728–1743
  • Hüsseten register from 1738
  • Serfdom book from 1787 with supplements up to 1836
  • List of 348 genealogies of Gütersloh families for the 17th and 18th centuries, compiled by Erich Pott (+) in 979 folders (22 archival boxes)
  • The compilations by Erich Pott are continuously supplemented by Wilfried Strothotte and are in a z. A database of around 80,000 people is currently available.
  • Documentation on the history of the farms in the farming communities in Blankenhagen and Pavenstädt, compiled from the original cadastre (1822) by Heinrich Kornfeld (+)

The church registers of the Protestant parish can be viewed in the regional church archive . The parish registers of the Catholic parish can be viewed at the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

Visitor numbers, divided into research areas (2016)

  • scientific: 126
  • genealogical: 176
  • Students: 60
  • Others: 40

First mention of the city name "Gütersloh"

The picture shows a facsimile of the first documentary evidence of the name "gutherlo". This is posted in the entrance area of ​​the Gütersloh City Archives.
The village of Gütersloh was first mentioned in 1184 in a document from the Bishop of Osnabrück. Places and districts belonging to the urban area today were z. Sometimes mentioned for the first time much earlier: Isselhorst in 1050, Spexard, Pavenstädt and Nordhorn in 1088, Ebbesloh in 1151.

Translated from Latin, the text means:

In the name of the holy and undivided
Trinity.
Arnold, humble
servant of the Church of Osnabrück by God's grace .
To all believing Christians to
know and know that Mr. Ludolf, in whose
inheritance the church (monastery)

First documentary evidence of the name "gutherlo".

Oesede is located, gave us the tithe in
Gütersloh on the condition
that we in turn transfer it to the
maintenance of this church (this
monastery). We
confirm that this has happened in this way
with our authority and by
adding our seal. in the year of the
Incarnation of Lord
MCLXXXXIIII (1184)).
Witnesses: Lentfrit, Probst, Tetmar,
monastery administrator; Radolf, chaplain; the
Ministerials (secular servants)
Hartbraht, Gerhart, Everhart.
This happily happened in the year of
the Incarnation of Lord
MCLXXXIIII (1184). Amen.

The last sentence (in red ink) was probably added later.

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