Reutlingen City Archives

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Reutlingen City Archives

Archive type Municipal Archives
place Reutlingen
Visitor address Marktplatz 22 (town hall)
Age of the archive material 1298 – today
ISIL DE-1983
carrier City of Reutlingen
Website www.reutlingen.de/stadtarchiv

The Reutlingen city archive secures the historical records of the city of Reutlingen and makes them accessible to the public. The legal basis for using the archive is the 1991 archive regulations.

Stocks

The Reutlingen city archive has been keeping historical documents over 4000 linear meters since 1298.

  • Imperial city stocks

The imperial city stocks include around 500 meters of shelves for documents , files and official books . The tradition of the series of volumes (especially council minutes, purchase books, inventories and divisions) begins in the second half of the 16th century.

  • Holdings after 1803

The holdings from the time after the mediatization have been partially lost due to bomb damage.

  • Holdings of the 12 Reutlingen district communities

Altenburg, Betzingen , Bronnweiler, Degerschlacht, Gönningen, Mittelstadt , Oferdingen, Ohmenhausen, Reicheneck , Rommelsbach , Sickenhausen and Sondelfingen

  • Collection holdings

Important is v. a. the photo collection with more than a million individual photos.

  • Friedrich List Archive

Contains the extensive written legacy of the economist, railway pioneer, politician and publicist Friedrich List, who was born in Reutlingen in 1789 .

Online finding aids

The Friedrich List Archive can be searched in a separate online application of the Reutlingen City Archives.

The description data for some central and nationally important collections were exported to the BAM portal and can be searched there:

  • A 1 files from the imperial city period (15th - 19th centuries)
  • City clerk (early 19th century)
  • Building Department (approx. 1838–1961)
  • Lord Mayor Oskar Kalbfell (1923–1979)

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