Witten city archive
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founding | 1936 |
Library type | Archive (North Rhine-Westphalia) |
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Witten ![]() |
ISIL | DE-Wit2 |
operator | Kulturforum Witten ( AÖR of the city of Witten ) |
management | Martina Kliner-Fruck |
Website | Kulturforum-witten.de/stadtarchiv |
The Witten City Archive is the municipal archive of the city of Witten . Martina Kliner-Fruck is the manager.
location
The city archive has been located on the ground floor of the Witten hall building since 2012 , in the basement of which the magazine is also housed. A second magazine is located in Annen .
history
The city archive was initially housed in the tower of the city hall. It was kept as a registry for a long time . It was formally set up as an archive in 1936.
In 1974/75 it moved from there to the newly built hall, then in parts to the Villa Albert Lohmann and finally to Herbeder Straße.
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Witten_Saalbau.jpg/220px-Witten_Saalbau.jpg)
At the turn of the year 2005/2006 it moved from there to the Villa Berger . The magazine was temporarily stored in the hall building . In 2010 the magazine of the city archive moved into the basement of the Saalbau Witten . The city archive has been supported by the Kulturforum Witten , an institution under public law , since 2006 . In 2012, the city archive moved from Villa Berger to the hall building .
Stocks
- Official records
- Legacies ( Alois Baur , Friedrich Engelhardt , Hofarchiv Hackert-Wilberg , legacy Hugo Ernst buyer , Gustav Strohmann , family Vollmer )
- Archives of institutions, organizations, companies, associations, parties and associations etc. a. (Archive of the Annen Volunteer Fire Brigade , Archive Film Club Witten , Haarmann Dyeing Estate , Archive Machine Factory F. W. Moll Söhne , Archive Saxony and Thuringia Association Witten , Archive of the Volksbund German War Graves Service Local Association Witten )
- various other collections
- Newspapers (including Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , Westfälische Rundschau , Ruhr Nachrichten , Witten aktuell , Sunday courier , Wittener Tageblatt )
Publications
- Manfred Grieger , Klaus Völkel: The “Annener Gußstahlwerk” (AGW) subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. September 1944 – April 1945 . Ed .: Stadt Witten, Der Stadtdirektor, Stadtarchiv. 1st edition. Klartext Verlag , Witten 1997, ISBN 3-88474-647-2 (on the Annener Gußstahlwerk subcamp ).
- Frank Ahland, Matthias Dudde, Witten City Archives (ed.): Wittener. Biographical portraits . 1st edition. Ruhrstadt-Verlag, Witten 2000, ISBN 3-935382-02-2 .
- Frank Ahland, Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe , Zeche Nachtigall , Stadtarchiv Witten (ed.): Explosives! The explosion of the Witten Roburit factory in 1906 . 1st edition. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89861-705-5 .
- Stadtarchiv Witten (ed.): Von Rosa and other days. An international women's diary from Witten and its twin cities Barking and Dagenham, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Kursk and Tczew . 1st edition. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0349-4 .
- Witten City Archives (ed.): O Róży, o różowych dniach i innych. Mie ̜ dzynarodowy dziennik kobiet . 1st edition. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0538-2 ( Polish edition of Von Rosa and other days. ).
- Witten City Archives (ed.): O Roze i drugich dnjach. Meždunarodnnyj ženskij dnevnik . 1st edition. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0539-9 ( Russian edition of Von Rosa and other days. ).
Exhibitions
- Jewish life in Witten
- Nazi forced labor
- 10 years Equal Opportunities Office in Witten
- "Whoever contributes to oblivion completes the work of the murderer" (Elie Wiesel). Jews from Witten in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. An exhibition with life sketches, documents and memories. Originally called - the city's history complement to the exhibition of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation / Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen designed "Jewish prisoners in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp 1936-1945"; large-sized panels with reproduced Archival and 18 living sketches of Wittener Jews , which in the time of Nazi in the Sachsenhausen were abducted
literature
- Heinrich Schoppmeyer : Witten. History of the village, town and suburbs . tape 2 . VOHM , Witten 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-040266-1 , p. 325 .
Web links
- Official website
- Witten city archive at the North Rhine-Westphalia state archive
- Witten city archive in GenWiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Where the past is saved for the future. Witten city archive. City magazine Witten, April 2014, accessed on September 1, 2018 .
- ↑ City archive is " temporarily stored ". Stock moves to the hall building and local museum . In: WAZ . June 11, 2005.
- ^ Claudia Scholz: City Archives. The city memory is moving. WAZ, October 18, 2010, accessed December 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Kulturforum . In: WAZ . April 14, 2007.
- ↑ Claudia Vüllers: “We don't want to save ourselves dead” . In: WAZ . April 14, 2007.
- ^ Claudia Scholz: Archive. The archive of the city of Witten is moving with 1000 boxes. WAZ, October 18, 2012, accessed December 1, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c working group of the EN archives (ed.): Archivverführer. Archives in the Ennepe-Ruhr district . 1st edition. 2008.