Wiesbaden City Archives
| Wiesbaden City Archives
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| Archive type | Municipal Archives |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 4 '21 " N , 8 ° 12' 50" E |
| place | Wiesbaden |
| Visitor address | Im Rad 42, 65197 Wiesbaden |
| founding | 16th Century |
| scope | approx. 4.5 running km of documents, approx. 5,000 maps, plans and posters, 23,000 microfiches and approx. 50,000 photos. |
| Age of the archive material | 1351 until today |
| ISIL | DE-Wi26 (Wiesbaden City Archives) |
| carrier | State capital Wiesbaden |
| Organizational form | Department of the Cultural Office of the State Capital Wiesbaden |
| Website | www.wiesbaden.de/stadtarchiv [1] |
The Wiesbaden City Archive is the municipal archive of the state capital Wiesbaden . It has been based in a former factory building in Wiesbaden's artists' quarter since 1989. Its origins go back to the 16th century; The clock tower in Marktstrasse was first mentioned in 1636 as a depository for documents.
The Wiesbaden City Archives hold historically relevant holdings on the history of the city of Wiesbaden as well as documents of urban and non-urban origin as well as collections from associations, companies and institutions. Another group of holdings is made up of more than 200 personal papers and bequests from important Wiesbaden personalities and families.
The oldest original document in the Wiesbaden City Archives is from 1351. It concerns the city charter of Sonnenberg .
history
The clock tower in Marktstrasse was chosen to be the place to keep the city's documents in the first half of the 16th century, with a large part of the city's archives being destroyed in the city fire of 1547. It was not until 1716 that the city administration carried out extensive audits due to a lack of space and the deterioration of the papers. In particular, court hearings, bills and files of voluntary jurisdiction, some from the 14th century, were destroyed. Karl Rossel (1815–1872) arranged the neglected archive in 1850 and 1851 and set up a provisional register.
With the demolition of the clock tower in 1873, the archive was relocated, initially in the attic chambers of the Old Town Hall , from 1880 in a tower room of the Marktkirche, and then from 1892 on the upper floor of the New Town Hall . Under the supervision of Christian Spielmann, the first Wiesbaden city archivist, parts of the archives were systematically indexed for the first time. After Spielmann's death in 1917, his position remained vacant for three years. In 1924 the decision was made to place the city archive in the state library , the director of which now functioned formally as head of the city archive. In 1933 the city archive was also formally abolished.
During the Second World War, the older part of the archive was moved to the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress . Other parts remained in various places in the city and were partly destroyed by an air raid in February 1945. The archive material relocated to Ehrenbreitstein was returned to the city of Wiesbaden on October 11, 1948.
After the Second World War, the city archive was re-established and first moved into the rebuilt New Town Hall in 1951. Former air raid shelters in the basement served as the main magazine. In 1978 the archive left the town hall and was initially housed at Humboldtstrasse 6 in the so-called Hengstenberg Villa, until a functional building at Im Rad 42 could be moved into at the end of 1989. In a former factory building, functional rooms and good storage conditions for the archive material have been created on one level.
Head of the Archives
- 1892–1917: Christian Spielmann (1861–1917)
- 1920–1924: Lothar Lüstner (1882–1955)
- 1951–1973: Hellmuth Thomä (1908–2002)
- 1973–1999: Günter Mischewski (1942–2006)
- 1999–2001: acting: Jochen Dollwet (* 1957)
- 2001–2019: Brigitte Streich (* 1954)
- 2019–2020: acting: Anjali Pujari
- since 2020: Peter Quadflieg (* 1982)