City archive Schwäbisch Gmünd

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City archive Schwäbisch Gmünd

View from Münsterplatz (2020)
View from Münsterplatz (2020)
Archive type Municipal Archives
place Schwäbisch Gmünd
Visitor address Augustinerstrasse 3
founding 13./14. century
carrier City of Schwäbisch Gmünd
Website www.schwaebisch-gmuend.de/Stadtarchiv.html

The Schwäbisch Gmünd city archive is the archive of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd in Baden-Württemberg . It is considered to be the oldest existing office in the city.

Archive history

Until 1928

The first mention is made of the town clerk Berthold in 1337, but documents are available from the late 13th century. The post of Gmünd city clerk was, as can be seen from the oath book of 1468, also assigned the task of holding the city elections with the city's Stettmeisters . Until the beginning of the 17th century, the highly paid position was associated with the post of head of administration and the head of the chancellery, as well as lawyers and archivists .

From 1725 to 1739 the archive was reorganized by Johann Jakob Dudeum. The city's archives were in two locations at the time. The city registries were stored in the old town hall , the remaining archives in the Grät . Due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss the archive fell into the area of ​​responsibility of the Württemberg Landvogteiarchivare. In order to save the Gmünd city archive from being incorporated into the state archive, it was sorted by the city. From 1825 to 1827, however, the first archival material was brought to the main state archive in Stuttgart .

In the 19th century from 1828 onwards, documents from the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, including valuable council minutes, were destroyed. In 1861 another attempt was made to sort the decimated archive. However, it was not until the end of the 19th century that greater interest emerged. Paul Wilhelm von Keppler was one of the leaders in the efforts to reprocess the archive , who in Stuttgart was able to arrange for the archive to be viewed and sorted again. On July 5, 1880, the archive was inspected by archivist Paul Friedrich von Stälin . Stälin arranged for another four boxes of archive materials to be brought to Stuttgart. During the First World War in 1916, the remaining archive barely escaped being used as waste paper for the war economy.

New beginning in 1930

The Gmünder citizen and later city archivist Albert Deibele found remnants of the old city archives in 1928 in the preacher and in the city ​​hall . He started collecting the stocks again. The reconstruction of the city archives officially began in 1930. Like an odyssey through various Gmünder buildings, the archive was stored next to the preacher and town hall also in the Fuggerei before it finally arrived at its current storage location in Augustinerstraße 3 on Münsterplatz .

Things got turbulent for the archive again during the Second World War and the time of National Socialism . City archivist Deibele came under criticism because of his participation in the Corpus Christi procession and the ideological instruction of his children and was suspended. In 1943 the archive was moved to the salt dome in Kochendorf , where it remained until 1947. After Albert Deibele, Peter Scherer was the first scientific archivist to take over the office of city archivist from 1970 to 1973. Since the Marxist historian could not gain a foothold, he was only archive manager for a short time. From 1975 to 2012, Klaus Jürgen Herrmann was the city archivist. Thanks to continuous development work, around 4,000 linear meters of archive and collection items, including 48,000 library media, are being stored in the city archive today (2019) . Barbara Hammes headed the archive from 2013 to November 2016. The Schwäbisch Gmünder local council elected David Schnur as his successor in March 2017. He took office in May 2018.

Archive building

City archive from the north in March 2020. On the right you can see the Gmünder Augustinerkloster , on the left in the background the Gmünder Fuggerei .
City archive from the east in March 2020. The Augustinian monastery can be seen on the right
City archive from the southwest

The half-timbered house was built in 1578 as a municipal Latin school between Münsterplatz and the Augustinian monastery under the mayor Paul Goldstainer . The foundation stone is kept in the city ​​museum in the preacher . From 1803 to 1932 the building housed the town clerk's office , from 1832 to 1881 it was a Protestant elementary school. In 1891 it was converted into a Protestant clubhouse. Initially acquired in 1940 by the Evangelical Church for demolition, the city administration awarded the building to the archive that has been located there since 1939. Since 1955 the building has only been used as an archive.

Repairs were carried out in 1950, 1962, 1981 and 1995/1996. Several oil paintings have been preserved in the archive, including a portrait of the mayor by Johann Georg Strobel , as well as portraits of members of the Beroldingen family.

In addition, various emergency magazines have been used since the 1990s due to exhausted magazine reserves. Two emergency magazines are within walking distance on Münsterplatz and a third outside in Buchstrasse (former Bismarck barracks ). In these emergency magazines, around a quarter of all stocks are housed on around 1,000 linear meters of shelf.

Archives holdings

The holdings of the city archive are structured as follows:

A stocks

Municipal documents : Historical archive of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit (A01), remnants of the archive of the imperial city of Schwäbisch Gmünd (A02), inventories and divisions (A03), goods booklets and purchase books (A04), main registry of the city administration (A07), genealogical collection (A08 ), Personnel files (A10), municipal council minutes (A11), residents' registration files (A12), civil status registers (A13) as well as mostly more modern records to the municipal offices (A14 to A29).

B stocks

Non-urban documents : Gräflich-Beroldingisches Archiv zu Horn (B01), local archives of the later incorporated districts (B02) and individual surrounding communities (B03), Stenographers Association Schwäbisch Gmünd 1892 eV (B06) and peers' associations (AGV) (B10).

C stocks

Collections : Chronicles of urban history (C01), extensive collection of daily newspapers from Schwäbisch Gmünd and the surrounding area (C03) and posters (C07).

D stocks

Estates : (Partial) estates from Rudolf Weser (D03), Emil Rudolph (D04), Walter Klein (D06), Franz Konrad (D09), Adolf Kern (D10), Albert Deibele (D11), Hermann Erhard (D15) and Anton Nägele (D19).

E-stocks

Audio-visual documents : graphic collection with approx. 3,500 graphics, watercolors, drawings, etchings and large-format historical photographs (E04), the bequests of the Gmünder photographers Josef Seitz (E10), Carl Jaeger (E11) and Karl-Otto Lang (E06) as well as an extensive collection of historical postcards.

F stocks

Library holdings : reference library in the reading room (F01), so-called old archive library (F02), chapter library (E04, deposit) and manuscripts (F07).

G stocks

Reprography : Collection of pertinence copies of sources on urban history that have been handed down abroad, often provided with regesta and transcriptions.

Publications

Publications from the Schwäbisch Gmünd City Archives

The following 14 volumes have so far been published in the Publications series of the Schwäbisch Gmünd City Archives :

  1. Hans-Helmut Dieterich: Legal status and legal activity of the Schwäbisch Gmünd monasteries up to the Thirty Years War . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1977, DNB 1175927252 .
  2. Agnes Banholzer: Maria-Kahle-Schule 1877–1977 . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1978, DNB 861183452 .
  3. Gerd Noetzel: The public water supply Schwäbisch Gmünd in the 19th century . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1979, DNB 1175927309 .
  4. Ernst Lämmle: The Gmünder Jews - Ways and Fates 1861-1945 . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1979, ISBN 3-921703-25-5 .
  5. Hartmut Beck: Schwäbisch Gmünd as an industrial location - an exemplary overview . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1982, ISBN 3-921703-42-5 .
  6. Hans Jürgen Jüngling: Imperial city rule and peasant protest - the conflict between the imperial city of Schwäbisch Gmünd and its rural area (1775–1792) . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1989.
  7. Heike Krause-Schmidt: Male next - Gmünder women and the revolution of 1848 . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1999, ISBN 3-927654-72-8 .
  8. Heinz-Dieter Heiss: From leprosy hospital to hospital - from the history of the Schwäbisch Gmünder hospital . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2000, ISBN 3-927654-78-7 .
  9. Ulrich Müller: From Musketeer to GI - History of the Gmünder Garrison . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2003, ISBN 3-927654-98-1 .
  10. Bernd Kleinhans: Cinemas in Gmünd 1897–1945 . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2005, ISBN 3-936373-20-5 .
  11. Heinz-Dieter Heiss: The city hospital in the hospital of the Holy Spirit . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2007, ISBN 978-3-936373-31-8 .
  12. Hans-Helmut Dieterich: "... how terrifying it is in Gemündt!". Civil unrest and disputes in the imperial city of Gmünd between 1648 and 1802 . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2007, ISBN 978-3-936373-36-3 .
  13. Gerd Noetzel: Authorities and citizens, political forces and problems of poverty in Gmünd, "factory location" and administrative city in the Kingdom of Württemberg . Schwäbisch Gmünd 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-047462-0 ( online ).
  14. David Schnur (Ed.): The Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Schwäbisch Gmünd. Selected sources on the history of the hospital from the Middle Ages to the present. With contributions by Hans-Helmut Dieterich, Hanspeter Johner and Dieter Rösch . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2019, ISBN 978-3-95747-091-1 .

Gmünder studies. Contributions to the history of the city

In the Gmünder Studies series . Contributions to the city's history (Einhorn-Verlag, ISSN  0170-6756 ) have so far published the following nine volumes:

  1. Schwäbisch Gmünd 1976.
  2. Schwäbisch Gmünd 1979.
  3. Schwäbisch Gmünd 1989.
  4. Schwäbisch Gmünd 1993.
  5. Schwäbisch Gmünd 1997.
  6. Schwäbisch Gmünd 2000.
  7. Schwäbisch Gmünd 2005.
  8. Schwäbisch Gmünd 2010.
  9. Schwäbisch Gmünd 2018.

Digital publications from the Schwäbisch Gmünd city archive

The following four volumes have been published so far in the digital publications series of the Schwäbisch Gmünd City Archives :

  1. Gerd Noetzel: About Johannes Buhl (1804–1882) from the Schwäbisch Gmünder press of his time , Schwäbisch Gmünd 2019 ( online ).
  2. Gerd Noetzel: Insights into the civilian shooting scene in Schwäbisch Gmünd in the 19th century , Schwäbisch Gmünd 2019 ( online ).
  3. Gerd Noetzel: Senior seminar teacher Professor Bernhard Kaißer (1834-1918). From the thoughts of the Gmünder Catholic elementary school teacher , Schwäbisch Gmünd 2020 ( online ).
  4. Marit Schillinger: Yvonne Pagniez - Inexhaustible courage to fight for peace? , Schwäbisch Gmünd 2020 ( online ).

Sources from the Schwäbisch Gmünd city archive. Digital editions

The Sources series from the Schwäbisch Gmünd City Archives currently has four volumes:

  1. David Schnur (edit.): The service diary of the NSDAP district leader Hermann Oppenländer in Schwäbisch Gmünd (1937–1940) , Schwäbisch Gmünd 2019 ( online ).
  2. David Schnur (arr.): Diaries of a city archivist. The Schwäbisch Gmünder Kriegschronik by Albert Deibele (1939–1945) , Schwäbisch Gmünd 2020 ( online ).
  3. David Schnur (edit.): Notes on the negotiations of the municipal council and the consultations with the councilors in the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd 1933–1945. Summary directory , Schwäbisch Gmünd 2019 ( online ).
  4. David Schnur (arr.): The orders of the Lord Mayor of Schwäbisch Gmünd 1939–1945. Summary directory , Schwäbisch Gmünd 2019 ( online ).

literature

  • Albert Deibele : Our city archive . In: Our home. Supplement to the Neue Württembergische Zeitung , 1st year, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1948, Issue 1, pp. 3–4, Issue 2, pp. 9–11 and Issue 4, pp. 25–26.
  • Albert Deibele: The city archive, a showpiece among our half-timbered houses . In: Gmünder Heimatblätter , 22nd year, issue 2, 1961, pp. 9–11.
  • Barbara Hammes: Between dust and digitization. The city archive in the 21st century . In: Unicorn Yearbook 2015 . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2015, pp. 123–129.
  • Klaus Jürgen Herrmann : From the work of the city archive - a new beginning in the old house and history of the Gmünd city archive. In: Einhorn Jahrbuch 1996. Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1996, ISBN 3-927654-53-1 , pp. 77-88.
  • Max Miller : On the history of the Gmünder Archives . In: Gmünder Heimatblätter 2, Heft 2/3, 1929, pp. 18-22.
  • David Schnur: The Schwäbisch Gmünd City Archives during the Nazi era . In: Einhorn Jahrbuch 2019 . Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2019, ISBN 978-3-95747-095-9 , pp. 231-251.
  • Richard Strobel: The art monuments of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd. Volume 3: Secular buildings of the old town without city fortifications. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-422-00570-6 , pp. 23-25.

Web links

Commons : Stadtarchiv Schwäbisch Gmünd  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the articles published in the Gmünder Studien on archivalia.hypotheses.org

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 55.2 "  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 44.2"  E