Witten city archive

Witten city archive
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founding	1936
Library type	Archive (North Rhine-Westphalia)
place	Witten coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 7 ° 20 ′ 3.9 ″ E
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.

Saalbau Witten , seat of the city archive since 2012

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

Commons : Stadtarchiv Witten - collection of images, videos and audio files

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.

[1] Where the past is saved for the future. Witten city archive. City magazine Witten, April 2014, accessed on September 1, 2018 .

[2] City archive is " temporarily stored ". Stock moves to the hall building and local museum . In: WAZ . June 11, 2005.

[3] Claudia Scholz: City Archives. The city memory is moving. WAZ, October 18, 2010, accessed December 1, 2016 .

[4] Kulturforum . In: WAZ . April 14, 2007.

[5] Claudia Vüllers: “We don't want to save ourselves dead” . In: WAZ . April 14, 2007.

[6] Claudia Scholz: Archive. The archive of the city of Witten is moving with 1000 boxes. WAZ, October 18, 2012, accessed December 1, 2016 .

[archivverfuehrer-7] working group of the EN archives (ed.): Archivverführer. Archives in the Ennepe-Ruhr district . 1st edition. 2008.