Grenchen city archive

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Grenchen city archive

The Grenchen City Archives in the listed «School House II» from 1883
The Grenchen City Archives in the listed «School House II» from 1883
Archive type Municipal Archives
Coordinates 47 ° 11 '29.8 "  N , 7 ° 23' 36.2"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 11 '29.8 "  N , 7 ° 23' 36.2"  E ; CH1903:  five hundred ninety-six thousand five hundred and seventy-two  /  two hundred and twenty-six thousand seven hundred forty
place Grenchen , Canton of Solothurn
Visitor address Lindenstrasse 21, 2540 Grenchen
founding 1966
Age of the archive material approx. 1860 until today
ISIL CH-001436-7
Organizational form Department
Website Grenchen city archive

The Grenchen city archive is the city ​​archive of the city of Grenchen in the Swiss canton of Solothurn . It was founded in 1966, its rooms have been located in School House II since 1996 , a cultural asset of regional importance .

assignment

The collection area of ​​the Grenchen City Archives are files from the city administration and documents on the history of Grenchen. The city archives worked on a history of the city of Grenchen from 1850–2008 , which aims to review the city's history since Werner Strub's Heimatbuch Grenchen (1949) and was published in book form in 2018.

A city wiki was founded to collect information and encourage the public to participate in the writing of history.

The city archive is a member of the Association of Swiss Archivists and is listed in the ISplus collection of information on Swiss memory institutions .

Duration

The Weyslein Buech in the city archive records the Grenchen orphan money from 1679 to 1719.

In the period from 1966 onwards, the archival holdings of the Grenchen City Archives encompass around 300 linear meters and around 10,000 photographs; the library holdings include around 2500 volumes.

The main archive, whose provenance is the municipality of Grenchen, mainly comprises municipal administrative documents from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as individual "handwritten documents from the 17th century". The city archive also includes photographs, images and films, church holdings, personal and family estates, plans, collections, club archives, a Varia inventory as well as newspapers and magazines.

The written (partial) estates include those of the trade unionist Olga Triebold (1903–1996), the watch manufacturer Adolf Affolter (1904–1984), the teacher Joseph Eberwein (1840–1911), the folklorist Franz Josef Schild (1821– 1889), the precision mechanic and designer Albert Bandelier (1895–1983), the clockworker Adolf Gschwind (1886–1966), the solo yodeler Therese Wirth-von Känel (1923–2005), the teacher Leopold Bloch (1872–1942) and of the Federal Councilor Hermann Obrecht (1882–1940).

Publications

  • 100 years of social democratic city councilors in Grenchen: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary. City Archives, Grenchen 1999. OCLC 76234201
  • The start of the watch industry in Grenchen and Bettlach: 150 years of the watch industry in Grenchen and the region: 1851–2001. Tear-off sheets. City Archives, Grenchen 2001. OCLC 81833822

literature

Web links

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Website of the Grenchen City Archives
  2. ↑ Rainer W. Walter : Where should the Grenchen story end in the book? In: Solothurner Zeitung , March 11, 2015
  3. ↑ Lucien Fluri: Grenchen is rewriting its city history. In: Grenchner Tagblatt , February 15, 2012
  4. ^ New city history Grenchen . City of Grenchen. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  5. ↑ mgt: New Grenchen «Stadtwiki» waiting to be expanded. In: Oltner Tagblatt , February 16, 2015
  6. ↑ a b Estate of the Grenchen city archive in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
  7. ↑ a b c List of holdings in the Grenchen city archive, as of 2013
  8. ↑ Audiovisual units in the holdings of the Grenchen City Archives on film tracks - Audiovisual sources in history and society
  9. ^ Rainer W. Walter: Teacher Eberwein's history of Grenchner . ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2015 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. Article on the website of the Grenchen Museum Society @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museums-gesellschaft.ch
  10. ^ Entry by Albert Bandelier on fotoCH
  11. ↑ Adolf Gschwind ( Memento of the original from January 17, 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. on the website of the Grenchen Museum Society @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museums-gesellschaft.ch
  12. ↑ Therese Wirth-von Kaenel polarized with her singing. Radio SRF , September 15, 2015