City archive Wesel
The Wesel city archive is the central documentation center for the history of the city of Wesel . Its premises are located in a building in the Wesel Citadel .
building
The premises of the Wesel City Archives are located in the Baeckerey building, which is part of Barracks VIII of the Wesel Citadel. It was built under French rule in 1809 and is a listed building. The citadel is located in the south of Wesel city center near the intersection of the B 8 and B 58 . The Baeckerey is right on the edge of the B 58 (Schillstrasse), but has its access via a small side street and has the address An der Zitadelle 2 . A restoration workshop, which was set up in 1993 and is also open to other customers, belongs to the city archive.
History and existence
Possibly in the 14th or at the latest in the 15th century, the storage of municipal archives began in the Dominican monastery in Wesel . Documents that have survived to this day go back to the year the city was founded in 1241, manuscripts exist from 1322 and invoices from 1349. The late Gothic Wesel town hall , which was moved into around 1456, had an archive and in 1590 a building adjoining the town hall to the west was bought especially for the archive. The first repertory as a directory of the entire archive was completed in 1644 after several years of work. The systematic listing was not continued at first, so that two repertories were created again in 1791 and 1792.
In 1876, important parts of the archives were handed over to the State Archives in Düsseldorf , which encouraged a scholarly examination of the city's history. At the beginning of the Second World War , part of it was brought back and from 1943 stored temporarily in the former Wesel Herzogschloss . The inventory was moved to a casemate in the main gate building of the citadel in 1944 and survived the war almost unscathed. The part of the stock that had not been brought from Düsseldorf to Wesel was largely destroyed in a salt mine near Volpriehausen by a severe explosion in June 1945.
On October 18, 1952, a new city archive was opened in the basement of the first post-war Wesel town hall on the corner of Hohe Strasse and Kreuzstrasse, the holdings of which were completed two years later when the documents received were returned. From 1969 received documents were photographed. As a result of the municipal reorganization in 1969/1975, the holdings were expanded to include those of the municipalities of Obrighoven-Lackhausen and Flüren (1969) and Büderich , Bislich , Diersfordt and Blumenkamp (1975). After temporary accommodation in Rheinbabenstrasse and in the town hall on Klever-Tor-Platz, which opened in 1974, the city archive was given its current location in a building in the citadel. In 1993, the associated restoration workshop was opened there.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wesel: Scaffolding of the citadel's bakery (rp-online.de)
- ↑ Restoration workshop (wesel.de)
- ↑ a b c From the history of the city archive (wesel.de)
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 5.2 ″ N , 6 ° 36 ′ 58.6 ″ E