Wuppertal City Archives

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Wuppertal City Archives

The reel houses, in the right of which the city archive is housed.
The reel houses, in the right of which the city archive is housed.
Archive type Municipal Archives
place Wuppertal
scope 6.5 km
Age of the archive material 14th century - today
ISIL DE-Wup3
carrier City of Wuppertal
Website www.wuppertal.de/kultur-bildung/stadtarchiv/Stadtarchiv_Startseite.php
An example of a medieval document in the holdings of the city archive: Document dated February 18, 1356 on the sale of the Vowynkele heritage and property by the owner Knight Heinrich von Schönrode and his wife Lysa to the monastery at Gräfrath

The Wuppertal City Archive is a municipal archive dedicated to the city history of Wuppertal and its predecessor communities Barmen , Elberfeld , Ronsdorf , Cronenberg , Vohwinkel and Beyenburg . The city archives have been located in the Haspel houses on Friedrich-Engels-Allee since 1981 ; previously it was only temporarily housed.

The archived holdings include files, minutes, books, photos, plans, tapes, newspapers and also digitized documents. The oldest documents date from the 14th century. The archive has a circumference of 6.5 kilometers of shelves and extends over three floors.

The position of director is vacant, the archive is provisionally subordinate to the director of the historical center , Eberhard Illner .

Large stocks of documents were destroyed in the Elberfeld city fire on May 22, 1687 . A so-called "rabble" devastated the entire registry on November 5, 1804 when the Elberfeld town hall was attacked. During the air raids on Wuppertal in 1943 , the current records were lost in many offices (e.g. personnel office, construction police, residents' registration office) and a large part of the old Cronenberg registry was destroyed. The archive also shows glaring gaps in the years 1925–1946, this goes back to the bombing of Barmen in 1943 and to the arbitrary destruction of files at the end of the war.

See also

literature

  • "Provenances - Archives in Wuppertal", information brochure of the Wuppertal City Archives, March 2008

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