Regensburg City Archives
The Regensburg City Archive is a municipal archive that is dedicated to the city history of Regensburg . It is used for the administration and storage of official documents and documents. The archive is located in the listed Runtingerhaus at Keplerstrasse 1.
history
The existence of the imperial city archive can be proven since the second half of the 14th century by the appointment of the merchant Matthäus Runtinger as archivist .
In the late 18th century, Georg Gottlieb Plato-Wild recorded the large number of documents at that time .
At the beginning of the 19th century the archive was located in four vaulted cellars of the old town hall . Carl Theodor Gemeiner (1756–1823), the author of the Regensburg Chronicle , received supervision over all secular and spiritual archives in Regensburg between 1803 and 1810 under the government of Carl Theodor von Dalberg . With the nationalization of the imperial city archives after the transition of Regensburg to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1810, the decline of the city archives began.
After Gemeiner's death, the Reichsarchiv in Munich arranged for large quantities of archive material from the imperial city to be brought to Munich. In 1824 a. a. around 14,000 documents, 850 official books and 7,000 wills in the Reich Archives. In the years that followed, the lack of suitable premises and specialist staff led to further losses of records, which culminated in 1851 with the sale of large amounts of archive material ordered by the royal government.
The city had the remaining documents in the following period by part-time workers, such as the former professional officer Joseph Rudolf Schuegraf (1790–1861), order and create finding aids . Until 1928 the city archive was only looked after on a part-time basis.
Since 1961, the city archive has again been staffed with full-time specialists. In 1977 the Regensburg City Archives moved into the Runtingerhaus .
Publications
Since 1999, the city archive has published academic papers on the history of Regensburg and the eastern Bavarian region in the Regensburger Studien series .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '15.8 " N , 12 ° 5' 37.9" E