Kitzingen City Archives
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| Archive type | Municipal Archives |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 44 '10 " N , 10 ° 9' 55.3" E |
| place | Kitzingen |
| Visitor address | Landwehrstrasse 23 |
| founding | First mentioned in 1613 |
| scope | up to 1,000 books |
| Age of the archive material | 1352 – today |
| ISIL | DE-Kiz1 (Kitzingen City Archives) |
| carrier | local community |
The Kitzingen City Archives are the municipal archives of the large district town of Kitzingen in Lower Franconia . The Kitzingen City Archive is the fourth most important municipal archive in the administrative district. Its holdings are only surpassed by the archives in Würzburg, Schweinfurt and Aschaffenburg.
history
An archive in the town of Kitzingen was first mentioned in a council report from October 27, 1613. A kind of archive probably existed some time before. The archive was modernized at the beginning of the 17th century, with the city council deciding to set up its own register . The old archive was located between the town hall and the market tower in the so-called market tower arch, where the office was also based. All documents, official books, pamphlets and invoices were quickly collected in the archive.
The first named archivist of the city was the city clerk and councilor Paul Rücklein (1584–1654), who began in 1626 to collect all documents in a general repertory . Rücklein wanted to be able to prove the rights of its citizens before the imminent relapse of the margravial city to the Hochstift Würzburg and gathered all the documents that could be found. In 1802 the holdings of the archive were supplemented by that of the dissolved Ursuline monastery . Only the transfer to Bavaria significantly reduced the holdings of the archive.
Since 1814 the older and more valuable documents were brought to the State Archives in Würzburg . Most of the documents that had been issued before 1400 were later transferred to the General Reich Archives in Munich . In 1821 the arch of the market tower was torn down and the archive was distributed over various rooms. The medieval documents were stored in the attic of the town hall .
The archive was reorganized in 1838 by Anton Reuss, the son of Kitzingen's medical officer Peter Reuss, who worked as a librarian at the University of Würzburg . In 1840 Reuss was made an honorary citizen for his unpaid work in the archive. Reuss separated several originals and had them auctioned in 1843. He also brought some church registers and several documents on parish and town history to the University Library of Würzburg. As early as 1858, the state of the archive was criticized again after a visit by the royal government.
The city responded by creating a new body to oversee the archives. The first owner of this post was the later mayor Andreas Schmiedel from Bayreuth . He arranged the registry and created a finding aid. After the First World War , the archive was again a topic: the rooms in particular were inadequate for the storage of valuable archive materials. In June 1920 the city council decided to move the archive to the former salt store in the north-west wing of the Protestant school building. In 1925 the new archive was rebuilt to make it accessible to the public.
The archive remained undamaged during the air raid on Kitzingen in World War II . However, the documents had to be cleaned and re-viewed because the detonations had peeled off the wall and ceiling coverings and the archives were buried under them. In 1965 the archive and the municipal museum moved to the former Kastenhof at Landwehrstrasse 23. Initially intended as a provisional solution, the archive still exists in the premises after a renovation in 2003. The Municipal Museum, on the other hand, was dissolved in 2020.
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The archival material in the Kitzingen City Archive now comprises 1.5 meters of shelf space . Its holdings suffered no major losses either in the Thirty Years' War or in the Second World War. However, several documents were given to the larger archives in Munich at the beginning of the 19th century. After the municipal reform in Bavaria in the 1970s, the collection was increased by the municipal archives of Hoheim , Hohenfeld , Sickershausen and Repperndorf . Until 2003, the archive materials from Sickershausen and Repperndorf were housed in the Sickershausen town hall.
In addition to over 500 documents from the period between 1352 and 1800, including several imperial documents , there are official books, volumes and protocol books, some of which date from the 15th century. The main focus is on the confessional conflicts of the 15th to 17th centuries, during which the city of Kitzingen changed its rulers several times. Almost 10,000 civil rights acts from the 19th and 20th centuries are of particular importance for the entire region . The council minutes, which have been passed down almost completely since 1525, are also important. The holdings of the Kitzingen Hospital form a further focus.
The early digitization of the archival material since 2004 initially applied primarily to the extensive newspaper holdings. The Kitzinger Zeitung in particular was digitized. In addition, the photo holdings play a major role: in addition to cityscapes, portraits and city photographs, the Oskar Klemmert and Erwin Rumpel collections are stored here as an estate. The Main-Post press archive from the period between 1960 and 1990 also exists in the premises of the Kitzingen City Archives.
See also
literature
- Doris Badel: Kitzingen city archive - history-meaning-stocks . In: Yearbook for the district of Kitzingen 2009. In the spell of the Schwanberg . Dettelbach 2009. pp. 117-128.
Individual evidence
- ^ Doris Badel: Kitzingen city archive - history-meaning-stocks . In: Yearbook for the district of Kitzingen 2009. In the spell of the Schwanberg . Dettelbach 2009. p. 124.
- ^ Doris Badel: Kitzingen city archive - history-meaning-stocks . In: Yearbook for the district of Kitzingen 2009. In the spell of the Schwanberg . Dettelbach 2009. p. 118.
- ^ Doris Badel: Kitzingen city archive - history-meaning-stocks . In: Yearbook for the district of Kitzingen 2009. In the spell of the Schwanberg . Dettelbach 2009. p. 122.
- ^ Doris Badel: Kitzingen city archive - history-meaning-stocks . In: Yearbook for the district of Kitzingen 2009. In the spell of the Schwanberg . Dettelbach 2009. p. 126.
- ↑ General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives: Stadtarchiv Kitzingen , accessed on July 19, 2020.