City archive Koblenz
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 Seat of the Koblenz City Archives in the Old Castle |
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| Archive type | Municipal Archives |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 21 '44 .5 " N , 7 ° 35' 38.5" E |
| place | Koblenz |
| Visitor address | Burgstrasse 1, 56068 Koblenz |
| founding | 1974 |
| ISIL | Value Unknown value |
| carrier | City of Koblenz |
| Website | City archive Koblenz |
The Koblenz City Archive is the municipal archive of the city of Koblenz . The city archive housed in the Old Castle stores holdings on the history of the city of Koblenz for city history , local history or genealogical research. It is also responsible for the storage of historically valuable documents from the Koblenz city administration. From 1882 to 1974 the Koblenz City Archives were incorporated into the former Prussian State Archives in Koblenz . City archivist has been Michael Koelges since 2013.
history
In Koblenz, a place for storing city files and documents was first mentioned in 1406. A list of documents in the form of four sheets of paper in narrow folio has been preserved from 1471. In the middle of the 16th century, the city archive was the focus of a dispute between the city council and the Trier elector . As a result of the urban independence sought by the council, the archive was confiscated. The treasure archive with the oldest documents was kept in the vault under the tower of the Liebfrauenkirche , the chancellery archive in a chamber in the Monreal town hall . The archival material was listed in a directory for the first time at this time .
The archive material survived the devastating bombardment of the city of Koblenz in 1688 by French troops in the Palatinate War of Succession . In the 18th century, the city archives were in very poor condition, as the city clerk drastically recorded in 1774. During the French period (1794–1814) the city archives moved in 1805 to the new Am Plan town hall. The Koblenz city archivist Wilhelm Arnold Günther arranged for a thorough reorganization of the archive documents and registers from 1805 to 1809, so that they were in very good condition when they were taken over by the Prussians. In 1830, the government secretary Johann Josef Scotti subjected the archives to scientific use for the first time by drawing on the Electoral Trier ordinances from municipal property for the preparation of his provincial law collection.
In 1832 the Prussian State Archives were created in Koblenz . The Koblenz government asked the mayors in their area to report their archive holdings to the State Archives. In 1856, the state archivist Adam Goerz created a new finding aid for some of the city documents . After the state archivist Wilhelm Becker discovered in 1881 that the city archives were inadequately stored, they were transferred to the state archive in 1882. The state archives directors Heinrich Reimer and Max Bär worked until August 1916 on a new order and indexing of the city archives. The subsequent submission of documents by the Koblenz city administration was continuously recorded in the new finding aid.
During the Second World War, the archives were relocated to the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in 1941 to protect against the air raids on Koblenz . After being hit by a bomb, they were temporarily relocated to the Salzdetfurth potash mine near Hildesheim in December 1944 before they returned in 1946. In 1974 the city of Koblenz established the position of city archivist. The city archives were transferred to the Alte Burg by 1980 .
Stocks
The Koblenz City Archives contain the following files:
- Order 620: City of Ehrenbreitstein until 1814 (10 numbers)
- Order 623: City of Koblenz (11479 numbers)
- Order 655,10: Mayor's office Ehrenbreitstein from 1815 to 1937 (997 numbers)
- Order 655,106: Güls municipality (18 numbers)
- Order 655,112: Municipality of Lay (1 number)
- Order 655,124: Municipality of Metternich (33 numbers)
- Best 661.9. Faßbinderzunft and coopers Guild (12 points)
In order to avoid confusion, the inventory numbering of the Koblenz State Archives was retained. In addition, collections from 136 estates from Koblenz personalities, autograph collections , 15 association registers, 1,800 maps and plans, 560 development plans , 1,000 posters, 1,100 postcards, 10,000 photos, one million negatives , 35 linear meters of historical documentation, personal cards and newspaper evaluations are stored.
City archivist
- 1974–2013: Hans Josef Schmidt
- Since 2013: Michael Koelges
See also
literature
- Hans Josef Schmidt: On the history of the Koblenz city archive. Documentation, Koblenz, 1980
- Hans Josef Schmidt: The Koblenz city archive. Memory - Documentation Center, Koblenz, 1980