City archive Krefeld

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Photo of the administration building of the Krefeld City Archives
The administration wing of the city archive, behind it part of the magazine wing (2015)

The Krefeld City Archive is the archive of the independent city of Krefeld and stores archive material from eight centuries. As the city's “memory”, it has the task of preserving the city's tradition, making it accessible and making it accessible to the public. It is located behind the town hall in the Kempener Feld district north of Krefeld city center.

history

A city archive according to today's understanding has existed since 1905, when the old files of the city administration stored in the town hall were systematically sorted for the first time. After the relocation to the basement of the town hall in 1934, the archive material was recovered largely intact, despite the partial destruction of the building in the Second World War . However, many documents that had long been archivable were lost in the offices, so that the urban tradition, especially from the Nazi era and the Weimar Republic, is very sketchy.

In 1959, under the direction of the first specialist archivist Guido Rotthoff, the company moved to the basement of a former restaurant and brewery on Lutherische-Kirch-Straße. In 1982 the city archive moved into its new building next to the “ city ​​house ” bought by the city from the United Seidenwebereien AG (Verseidag) .

From 1988 Paul-Günter Schulte was in charge of the city archive. Among other things, the first computer and the “Faust” indexing software were introduced under him. In 2009, today's archive manager, Olaf Richter, became his successor.

A new building has been under construction behind the magazine since 2017, into which the city's Technical Service Center (TDZ) will move in 2019. In addition, the city archives get there more Magazine surfaces that will be so great in something like the old magazine, and a black space for treating contaminated archival materials.

tasks

In accordance with the Archives Act of North Rhine-Westphalia and the usage and fee regulations of the Krefeld archive, the Krefeld city archive is responsible for evaluating , taking over, indexing and making available the documents of the municipal offices. It supports the city authorities in their records management , evaluates the records they are offering and no longer required in terms of their archival quality , and makes them available to the public. It acts as a service provider for the city administration and for genealogists , historians , students and other interested parties. Will complement the urban tradition by private records, such as company or club archives and advantages and discounts of personalities from politics, business or culture that are important for the city and the public life of meaning or were.

The archives is under seizure of was getting innovative custody measures and made available to users for their research available. In addition, the city archive promotes knowledge of the city's history through exhibitions, lectures or publications as well as an extracurricular learning location for Krefeld students.

In addition, it maintains an extensive library on the city's and communal history.

Interior shot of the magazine
Look in the magazine (2018)

Stocks

The archives include around 1,200 documents , almost 3,000 running meters of files and official books, 40,000 digital and analog photos on various image carriers, around 1,200 microfilms and almost 25,000 volumes in the archive library.

The holdings also include the extensive tradition of the formerly independent cities of Linn and Uerdingen , which have belonged to Krefeld since 1901 and 1929, respectively. Due to the secularization of 1803, their historical documents from the time before the 19th century are in the North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives, Rhineland Department in Duisburg.

The newspaper series began in 1799. Numerous Krefeld newspapers were and are being collected; today these are still the Westdeutsche Zeitung , the Rheinische Post and local papers such as the Fischelner Woche and the Hülser Mitteilungen.

Publications of the archive and other literature

  • Krefeld. The history of the city , Volumes 1 to 5, Krefeld 1998 - 2010.
  • Krefeld Archive - Sources and Research on the History of the City of Krefeld and the Lower Rhine , Volumes 1 to 7, Krefeld 1991 - 2012.
  • Krefeld Studies , Volumes 1 to 15, Krefeld 1973 - 2015.
  • Guido Rotthoff: Establishment and equipment of the Krefeld city archive , in: Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Hrsg.): Contributions to the municipal archives , archive issue 17, Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1987; ISBN 3-7927-0976-7 , pp. 121-127.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 26.2 "  N , 6 ° 32 ′ 46.2"  E