Nordhausen City Archives

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Nordhausen City Archives

The city archive is located in the New Town Hall
The city archive is located
in the New Town Hall
Archive type Municipal Archives
founding around 1834
scope approx. 1,017 running meters; approx. 18,000 PU
Age of the archive material (around 900) 1158-2020
ISIL DE-No11
carrier City of Nordhausen

The Nordhausen City Archive is the archive of the city administration and the city of Nordhausen .

history

The beginnings of the city archive in Nordhausen cannot be reconstructed beyond doubt due to the lack of sources and presumably go back to the 13th century. The archive library probably emerged from the former council library (16th century).

The high school professor and local researcher Ernst Günther Förstemann (1788-1859) also looked after the archive and the library and contributed to the systematic classification of the holdings for the first time. At the end of the 1910s, the “historical library” serving the archive comprised around 2,400 volumes. In the year of the millennium in 1927, the archive and the historical library moved to the former city prison at Mauerstraße 15. Under the tutelage and local researcher Hans Silberborth (1887–1949), the archive library was reorganized in 1939 and adapted to modern principles (including cataloging).

The archive building was destroyed in the air raids on Nordhausen on April 3 and 4, 1945. At the beginning of May 1945, files, chronicles and other manuscripts that were stored in the basement of the Sparkasse were largely destroyed by looting. The holdings of the scientific library and newspaper volumes were moved to the orphanage and were hidden from the looters in the basement of the Heinrich Middle School by Nordhäuser.

With the greatest human effort, Silberborth tried to save the inventory in the post-war years and in 1947 the "modest remainder of the once stately archive library" was made available again in an orderly manner. Almost all documents survived the war, there were losses in the files, very large losses in the official books and other bound manuscripts, guild files and chronicles. Silberborth died in 1949 and Robert Hermann Walther Müller (1899–1969) succeeded him as a part-time archivist, from 1952 as a full-time archivist.

In February 1952 the archive moved to three rooms in the newly built Old Town Hall , in 1975 to the upper floor of the Walkenrieder Hof in Waisenstrasse, and in the summer of 1997 to the New Town Hall .

literature

  • RH Walther Müller: History of the Nordhäuser City Archives . Edited by the Nordhausen City Council. Nordhausen, 1953 (series of local history research from the City Archives 2)
  • Friedhilde Krause [Hrsg.]: Handbook of historical book stocks in Germany . Vol. 20. Thuringia. Edited by Friedhilde Krause. Arranged by Felicitas Marwinski. Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 1999

See also

External references

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Kuhlbrodt : Inferno Nordhausen . Nordhausen: Archives of the City of Nordhausen, 1995. P. 47