Herford City Archives
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 Most of the rooms in the city and district archives are located in the old building of the Herford district building |
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| Archive type | Municipal Archives |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 6 '55.8 " N , 8 ° 39' 42.7" E |
| place | Herford |
| Visitor address | Amtshausstr. 2, 32051 Herford |
| ISIL | DE-Hef2 |
| carrier | Hanseatic City of Herford |
| Website | Herford municipal archive |
The city archives of Herford in 1988 with the archive of Herford for municipal archive combines Herford, the basis of a public worn agreement jointly by the City and the District of Herford. At the same time, the archive was given its own cultural significance. The archives of the city of Enger and the municipality of Hiddenhausen are also deposited in the Herford municipal archive .
History of the city archive
The beginnings of today's city archive are around 1220. It was initially used to secure and store documents for legal protection (e.g. purchase or protection contracts), mostly in the form of documents on parchment . From the 15th century also came in records collected documents which will lead to legal transactions. The town clerk was responsible for the collection and storage . In the course of time, with the increasing systematisation of administration, the task of organizing the creation and filing of files ( registry ) was added. Both tasks were taken over by the city secretary, who also kept the minutes of the council meetings.
With the exception of a brief interruption at the end of the Thirty Years' War when the city of Herford was captured by Brandenburg troops and parts of the archive were briefly transferred to Berlin, nothing in the archive's situation changed until the beginning of the 19th century . With increasing administrative growth, however, the fields of activity of the registry and the archive gradually separated. From 1828 the historically very interested mayor August Viktor Wilhelm Rose took on the archive holdings. After a thorough inspection of the archive material , he created directories on which numerous finding aids in the Herford City Archives are still based, and expanded the archive holdings to include numerous copies of documents and files.
After the demolition of the old town hall on the Alter Markt in 1878, the departments of the city administration and also the archive often changed rooms. In 1900, the historically important documents and files were finally transferred to the Münster State Archives , where the documents of the former Herford Abbey were already stored, as proper storage and processing was initially easier there. The remaining, unprocessed files and the current registry migrated through various buildings until the new town hall (completed in 1916), some of which apparently disappeared without a trace. Some files also came to the museum managed by the Herford Association for Local History (today: Association for Herford History eV), whose honorary museum director Gustav Schierholz was officially entrusted with the archive maintenance in 1942.
The full-time museum director since 1958, Dr. In 1964, Rainer Pape, together with the Herford Association for Local History, brought about the repatriation of the archives from Münster with the aim of creating a cultural center in Herford consisting of a city archive, a local history association and a city museum. From then on, the City Museum and City Archives were a joint office under the direction of Dr. Pape. The processing backlog of the archives could not be managed due to a lack of staff, so that despite the adoption of a usage regulation in 1965, intensive use of the archive was not possible. In the same year some of the files that were believed to be lost reappeared in the attic of the new town hall.
In 1974, archive employee Friedrich-Wilhelm Claßen was hired, who began to clean, organize and record the archive material . From 1975 the city archive was housed in the former prison rooms in the basement of the town hall, but the archive was used in the rooms of the local history museum and was still only possible to a limited extent, as initially only the oldest archive materials were recorded and the spatial separation of archive and museum made access difficult. The newspaper collection, the photo collection and the local library were stored in the museum itself, but archival material continued to be collected there parallel to the city archive.
In 1986 the archive was relocated again, this time to the premises of the former police station on Elverdisser Straße. The remaining archives from the museum and the district archive were finally transferred there in 1989/1990. From 1988 Dr. Theodor Helmert-Corvey city archivist and museum director and the later city archivist Christoph Laue archivist. In the same year, the contract to set up a joint municipal archive was signed by the city and district of Herford. In January 1997 the entire municipal archive moved to the old Herford district building, where it is still located today.
Archivists
| Name of the archivist | Period | tasks |
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| Dr. Rainer Pape | 1964-1988 | since 1956 museum director, from 1964 also city archivist |
| Prof. Dr. Theodor Helmert-Corvey | 1988-2000 | City archivist and museum director |
| Christoph Laue | 1988 - today | City archivist (current responsibility: city archives and administrative archives), head of the Zellentrakt memorial |
| Dieter Begemann | 1989 - today | City archivist (current responsibility: city history documentation) |
building
The offices, reading rooms and one of the four storage rooms of the Herford Municipal Archives have been located in the old building of the Herford District House since 1997, the other storage rooms are in the extensions and new buildings from 1957 and 1995.
The construction of today's district building began in 1898. The Herford district assembly met in the town hall on the Alter Markt until it was demolished in 1878, then temporarily in various Herford hotels until the entire district administration in Herford's district court in Elisabethstrasse in 1880. 9 stayed. Office rooms were also set up there for the district administrator , who had previously lived outside , as this office increasingly required permanent presence. When the district committee administration was newly created in 1887, space in the district court became too tight and the district council decided to build its own district building in the Renaissance style under the direction of the architect Paul Münter from Herford, which was inaugurated on August 14, 1900. According to the final accounts, the construction costs amounted to 262,249 marks and 27 pfennigs. The district building had 2 meeting rooms (for district council and district committee ). The district administrator's residence was housed in the entire south wing of the building, in whose rooms there are now offices and, on the upper floor, part of the municipal archive (offices, photo archive and reading rooms).
As early as the First World War , space became scarce again and a neighboring house had to be rented. After the Second World War , it was decided to build a six-story extension, which was completed in 1957. Today there are two storage rooms of the municipal archive in the basement of the extension.
In the 1990s, a further extension was decided, which could already be occupied in the summer of 1995 and in the basement of which the registry of the district administration and another part of the holdings of the municipal archive are located today.
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Holdings of the Herford City Archives
The holdings of the Herford City Archives are very extensive and almost completely go back to the 13th century . The oldest sources are documents and documents on church institutions and monasteries, the Fraterhaus and the Kalandsbruderschaft , but also city files.
- City administration documents:
- Documents (13th - 19th centuries)
- Manuscripts
- City administration documents 15th century - 1890
- City administration documents 1890-1945
- City administration documents 1945 - today
- Documents of the incorporated municipalities 1816 - 1969
To the urban documents also according to the rules include Personal Status Law continuously acquiring civil status register of the register office Herford after their retention periods according Archives Act North Rhine-Westphalia (SMBR after 110 years, marriage register after 80 years & Death after 30 years).
- Documents of non-urban origin:
- Estates
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Deposita , among others
- Archive of the Herford History Society
- Archive of the Friedrichs-Gymnasium
- small acquisitions
- Photos, among others
- Photo collection of the Municipal Museum
- Estate of the photographer Georg Heese
- Collection of sources (copies of relevant documents from other archives)
- Maps and plans
- Newspapers from 1846, among others
- Herford circular sheet
- New Westphalian
Holdings of the Herford District Archives
The files of the Herford district go back to its foundation in 1816. The tradition of the town of Enger and the community of Hiddenhausen, as well as the villages that were incorporated into Herford in 1969, also begins at the beginning of the 19th century.
Library
In addition, the Herford municipal archive has an extensive archive library that contains around 20,000 volumes and dates back to the 16th century . The subject areas mainly include local and regional history, but also general history and auxiliary sciences for historical research.
Zellentrakt Memorial
The Zellentrakt memorial has been set up in the former prison rooms of the Herford town hall, in which the archive was temporarily housed, since 2005. It is run by the Herford City Archives and the 'Kuratorium Erinnern Forschen Gedenken e. V. ' operated and offers not only a memorial room for the murdered Jewish Herford, but also space for educational offers and changing exhibitions (thematic focus: Jewish life , the time of National Socialism , minorities and foreign cultures).
Publications
The historical yearbook for the Herford district is published annually by the District Home Association and the Herford Municipal Archives . In terms of content, contributions to the history, culture, biology, nature, geology and local history of the Herford district are dealt with; all interested scientists and local researchers are allowed to take notes. The publication is supported by the Herford History Association and the Sparkasse Herford Foundation.
The city archive also publishes the two series Herford Research (since 1989) and Herford History Sources, in which research on the city and regional history is published in loose succession.
In addition, the city archive is involved in the publication and editing of the quarterly HF magazine - local history contributions from the Herford district . All issues of the magazine can be viewed as PDF files on the Herford district home association's website.
literature
- Christoph Laue: The city archive . In: 1200 Years Herford: Traces of History, ed. on behalf of the city of Herford by Theodor Helmert-Corvey and Thomas Schuler, Herford 1989 (pp. 394–399).
- Christoph Laue: Herford City Archives . In: Archives in the Herford district, ed. by Christoph Laue on behalf of the Archive Working Group at Kreisheimatverein Herford e. V., Bielefeld 1993 (pp. 394-399).
Web links
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- Herford district: press information , ed. from the Herford district - press office, Herford 14 August 2000
Individual evidence
- ^ Association for Herford History
- ↑ Zellentrakt Memorial
- ↑ Kreisheimatverein Herford e. V. ( Memento of the original from May 18, 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.
