Rottweil City Archives
The Rottweil city archive is an archive belonging to the Rottweil city administration .
| Rottweil City Archives
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| Archive type | City Archives |
| place | 78628 Rottweil |
| Visitor address | Engelgasse 13 78628 Rottweil |
| Age of the archive material | since about 13th century |
| ISIL | DE-2123 (Rottweil City Archives) |
| carrier | City of Rottweil |
It archives records, photographs, birth and death registers , as well as certificates and documents from Rottweil and its associated communities. The archive also has archival material on companies, associations and schools in Rottweil, as well as various Rottweil newspapers.
The city archive is open to visitors, and newspapers from the late 18th century are made available to them to read, and questions about the history of Rottweiler and its citizens are answered. In addition, visitors can view other archive material, such as the minutes of the council. The Rottweil city archive provides a reading room with an extensive service library for this purpose.
history
The current holdings of the Rottweiler City Archives have grown over the course of almost eight centuries; the origins of the archive go back to the city's registry of documents from the late Middle Ages . First of all, legal and property titles were kept here in the form of documents. To date, around 4,000 parchment documents from the 13th to 16th centuries have been preserved in the holdings of the Rottweil City Archives. The oldest document is a papal charter from 1224. Outstanding documents are also the "Golden Bull" of King Sigismund from 1434 with the summary confirmation of the imperial city privileges and the charter of the Eternal Covenant from 1519 with the Swiss Confederation.
With the increase in written form at the end of the late Middle Ages, a chancellery developed with administrative activities in the form of files and systematically organized registries. The historical files of the Rottweil City Archives up to 1803 are still in the registry of the Imperial City Chancellery.
The administration also created official registers early on, such as a city law book in the 15th century or a tax book for 1441. Council minutes and city accounting books have only survived since the late 16th century. The city archives had already suffered repeated losses in the time of the imperial city, for example through fires and other catastrophes. With the transfer of Rottweil to the Kingdom of Württemberg , important parts of the archive were moved to what is now the main state archive in Stuttgart in 1828 .
The Rottweiler city archive was located around the middle of the 16th century, together with that of the Imperial Court Court, in the vaults of the common chancellery in the upper main street opposite the town hall. After moving several times, the holdings found a suitable place to stay in 1981 in the current building of the City Archives, the former Rottweiler Latin School in Engelgasse.
Stocks
The Rottweil city archive has holdings that have been brought together from various archives. The historical inventory consists of around 12,000 volumes, written in German and Latin. These include:
- Reichsstadtarchiv (1224–1803 ff): documents, factual files, official books (including council minutes 1580 ff .; city accounting books 1560, 1580 ff .; tax books: land registers and interest books; contract protocols)
- Brotherhood Archives (1336–1828): documents; Factual files; Official books (including brotherhood office protocols; brotherhood accounts; annual court protocols; contract protocols)
- Hospital archive (1275–1833): documents; Factual files; Official books (including hospital records; hospital bills)
- Foundation archive (1803–1832): certificate; Factual files; Official books
- Oberamtsstadt and (large) district town 1803 ff .: files and official books (including local council records; account books; tax cadastre; fire insurance books; purchase books; court records)
- Maps and plans
- Newspaper archive: Rottweiler newspapers from 1799 to the present day
- Collection holdings:
- Photo archive
- Postcard collection
- Collection of audiovisual media
- Newspaper clipping collection
- Collection of printed matter on industry, craft and trade
- Culture printed matter collection (including programs; flyers; posters)
- Deposit: (including association archives, private estates)
- Service library: city, regional and state historical literature
Tasks and services of the city archive
- Conservation: Conservation and restoration
- Assessment and acceptance of documents from the city administration.
- Indexing: Systematic organization and listing of the holdings; Creation of finding aids
- Documentation: Collection of relevant materials on public political, economic and cultural life in the city of Rottweil.
- Evaluation of the holdings: research and publications
- User support: Provision of archive material and advice to archive users
- Information: Providing verbal and written information
- Historical educational work: guided tours and lectures, exhibitions, archive pedagogical handouts.
Publications
Publication series
- Publications of the Rottweil City Archives (since 1971)
- Small publications from the Rottweil City Archives (since 1972)
Web links
- Literature from and about the Rottweil City Archives in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Website of the Rottweil City Archives