Twistringen City Archives

The city archives Twistringen is for the Lower Saxony town Twistringen competent administrative archive . It was founded in 1978 and is located in the town hall, Lindenstr. 14th

The founders were the teachers Friedrich Kratzsch from the Twistringer Realschule and Otto Bach , teacher at the primary school in Heiligenloh . The latter headed the archive from 1978 to 2004, the former being Bach's successor. With the incorporation in 1974, the Heiligenloh school archive was transferred to the city of Twistringen. On this foundation, the two teachers founded the city archive, which Otto Bach continued to manage after his retirement in 1986.

Its holdings include around 100 meters of shelving for official files and other documents, around 200 maps and plans and around 65 periodicals, including the Catholic Twistringer weekly newspaper Nordstern (weekly from 1896–1922, 1924, three times a week 1927–1937) and the district newspaper from the 1950s to the 1950s 1980s. In addition, there are sound carriers and films, including more than 75 audio cassettes with interviews on local contemporary history , an image archive with around 15,000 photographs, slides and digital photos as well as posters and placards. Finally, the older registry office registers were made accessible, and the church registers were partially made accessible in the form of copies, transcripts and photographs; they are accessible via name indices.

The library of the house comprises around 2,500 titles, including around 150 commemorative publications.

With the publications of the Twistringen City Archives , the house has its own series of publications.

See also

• List of municipal archives in the Diepholz district

Web links

• Literature from and about Twistringen City Archives in the catalog of the German National Library
• City archive Twistringen , website of the city of Twistringen
• Publications of the Twistringen City Archives
• Historical film stocks in Lower Saxony. Twistringen - City Archives Twistringen on the website of the Film Institute Hanover
• Brenndorf's memory. An archive celebrates Dominik Albrecht's 40th birthday on August 29, 2018 on weser-kurier.de
• Twistringen City Archives. Much to do for Kratzsch and Co. by Micha Bustian on April 3, 2019 on weser-kurier.de

Remarks

1. ↑ Martin Hartmann: Otto Bach (1924-2010) , in: Archiv-Nachrichten Niedersachsen. Messages from Lower Saxony Archives 15 (2011), p. 161 ( online ( memento of the original from March 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , PDF). 
2. ↑ The years 1927 to 1937 could be acquired in 2014 (Jörn Dirk Zweibrock: Via Twistringen the Nordstern goes up , in: Regionale Rundschau, April 12, 2014).
3. ↑ Mareike Claußen: Street names of the town of Twistringen are available on the Internet . Where do they come from and what do they mean? , Twistringen 2013 ( online , PDF) and Friedrich Kratzsch (ed.): Street names of the suburbs of the city of Twistringen, broken down according to locality , Twistringen 2015 ( online , PDF).

Coordinates: 52 ° 47 ′ 52 "  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 11.3"  E