Stuttgart City Archives

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Stuttgart City Archives

View from the southwest of building part A.
View from the southwest of building part A.
Archive type Municipal Archives
place Stuttgart
Visitor address Bellingweg 21
founding 1928
ISIL DE-Stg277
carrier City of Stuttgart
Website www.stuttgart.de/stadtarchiv/

The city ​​archive of the state capital Stuttgart is located in the Bad Cannstatt district in Baden-Württemberg . On January 22nd, 2011, the archive, which had previously been distributed across different locations, was opened in the former office and warehouse buildings of the "Großeinkaufsverein der Kolonialwarenhandel Württembergs" in Bellingweg 21.

history

The city of Stuttgart only set up its own city ​​archive in 1928 - very late in comparison to other cities . The question of space, which already existed at that time, could only be resolved with the move into the new premises in 2011. The first archive director, Dr. Karl Stenzel, founded the series of publications of the City Archives of the City of Stuttgart, which still exists today. The archives of the incorporated suburbs were added to the archive in the years after the foundation. The archival material stored in Löwenstein Castle (Oberamt Heilbronn) during the Second World War was burned on April 14, 1945. The holdings that remained in the city were also largely lost due to the destruction of the war.

After the war, the archive was re-established in the Stuttgart City Hall and incorporated into the Cultural Office in 1951. Because of the cramped conditions, the archive's reading room was moved to the former Mörike library and the main store to the building of a former print shop on Tübinger Straße. The renting of further rooms ensured a further breakdown. A new building could not be realized in 1991 for cost reasons.

As part of the Olympic application, the area with the buildings of the former "Großeinkaufsverein der Kolonialwarenhandels Württembergs" was acquired by the city of Stuttgart. Due to their static properties as former warehouse buildings, they were converted from 2008 to 2011 for around 20 million euros for use as a city archive and storage space for the Stuttgart City Museum . The city ​​archive was reopened on January 22, 2011 as part of an open house .

building

Located on the edge of the Veielbrunnenweg residential area in Bad Cannstatt, the building complex with today's usable area of ​​7,500 square meters forms the transition from the historic factory suburb to the residential and commercial area that is still being built on the former freight yard area. The main building, the former office and warehouse building, was built in 1921 by the architect Albert Schieber and is now classified as a cultural monument. It is an example of the Stuttgart School , which was shaped by Theodor Fischer and is characterized in particular by the three-nave iron skeleton structure , the lattice windows and the building materials brick and exposed concrete . The striking apse-like tower used to function as an entrance area. Inside, the former rail loading ramp with gate and rails has been preserved. The reading and lecture halls of the archive are located here. 33 workplaces and five self-contained work cells are available to users. The lecture hall offers space for 200 people, other rooms are used for exhibitions. The warehouse extensions from 1937 and 1953 form a structural unit with the main building, but are not listed. This contains the archive's magazine and the depots of the future city museum.

Stocks

In the reading room there is an open access library with around 2,000 books on the history of Stuttgart. The historical newspaper stocks can be viewed using microfilm . In addition to files from the city administration, historically valuable bequests, family and club archives as well as documentation such as leaflets , posters , around 20,000 paintings and graphics as well as 200,000 photos and films are stored in the archive on around ten kilometers of shelves in the magazine . The oldest documents go back to the 16th century.

literature

  • Sabine Haas: Almost like a new foundation , Stuttgart Official Gazette No. 3 of January 20, 2001, p. 1
  • Monika Spiegel: Immersion in Stuttgart's History , Stuttgart Official Gazette No. 3 of January 20, 2001, p. 3
  • Hans Böhm: City archives under one roof , special supplement to the Stuttgart Official Gazette No. 3 of January 20, 2011

Web links

Commons : Stadtarchiv Stuttgart  - collection of images

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '52 "  N , 9 ° 13' 31.5"  E