Rees City Archives
The city archives Rees is the municipal archives of the city of Rees . It is the city's information center on the history of Rees and its districts.
history
The city of Rees is considered the oldest city on the Lower Rhine. The documents and files were kept in the town hall until before the Second World War . During the Second World War, from 1944 onwards, the mediaeval and part of the modern archive holdings were relocated to a salt mine near Dabringhausen . The remaining holdings, including a large part of the archival material from around 1740, were destroyed when the town hall was completely destroyed in 1945. After the Second World War, the archive materials were stored in the basement of the Rees primary school and after the completion of the new town hall in the Söller of the town hall. In 1985 the archive was moved to the former health department on Sahlerstraße. The archive has been located in a specially constructed archive building since 2008 . The road to this building was named after the former city archivist Hermann Terlinden , who rebuilt the archive after the Second World War.
Archives parish
The archive district includes the city of Rees in its current form. This also includes the offices of Rees-Land , Haldern and Millingen, which were independent until 1969 and 1974 respectively .
Duration
The holdings of the city archive include around 550 documents and around 600 files from the period from 1142 to 1808. The holdings of medieval documents are considered to be one of the most extensive on the Lower Rhine. In addition to these documents from the city of Rees and the surrounding authorities, the archive also has files from the Deichschauen Reh-Renn and Haffen and the Bislich-Haffen-Rees dyke association . In addition to the administrative files, the archive also collects photos, death notes , newspapers and commemorative publications. The photo collection now comprises 8000 photographs since 1870, the death note collection around 8500 pieces since 1859. The archive also has a reference library with a focus on local history and the Lower Rhine.
public relation
In addition to the irregular open days, the city archive organizes exhibitions on the history of the city in the city's Koenraad Bosman Museum .
literature
- Working group of archives in the Kleve district: Archives in the Kleve district . Kleve 2012, pp. 49-51. ( Online )
- Dieter Kastner: The documents of the Rees city archive. Regesten, 1142-1499 . Habelt, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7749-3952-3 ( inventories of non-governmental archives , 55)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Reeser Geschichtsverein: Press Review 2018. Retrieved on June 5, 2020 .
- ^ Dieter Kastner: The documents of the Rees city archive. Regesten, 1142-1499 . Habelt, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7749-3952-3 , p. 7.
Coordinates: 51 ° 45 '50.2 " N , 6 ° 23' 51" E