Wuppertal City Archives
Wuppertal City Archives
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The reel houses, in the right of which the city archive is housed. |
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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 |
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
Web links
- Homepage of the city archive
- Old files - Finding aid PDF file 1.9 MB
- Overview of the existing finding aids PDF file 42 kB
- The Wuppertal city archive in the offer of the NRW archives
- Wuppertal City Archives in GenWiki
- Wuppertal's history is stored in the city archive behind Stahl Westdeutsche Zeitung from July 24, 2009