Styrian State Archives
| Styrian State Archives
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| Archive type | State Archives |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 4 '27.8 " N , 15 ° 26' 28.9" E |
| place | Graz |
| Visitor address | Karmeliterplatz 3 |
| founding | 1868 |
| carrier | State of Styria |
| Organizational form | Office |
| Website | landesarchiv.steiermark.at |
The Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv is a public archive of the federal state of Styria in Graz . As a state agency, it preserves the written and pictorial sources from more than a thousand years of Styrian history.
history
The archive of the Joanneum , founded in 1811, was already a state archive in terms of its idea and its tendency and structure , as it was the collection point of all archival documents relating to the country and grown in the country. The word “Landesarchiv” was used by Archduke Johann as early as 1814 , even if archival material was only collected to the exclusion of the public sphere. A merger of the Joanneum Archives with that of the Estates was first suggested in 1816 by Johann von Kalchberg . By Josef waiting Ingers dual position as a landscape and Joanneum archivist was for decades a personal union. Under the Joanneum archivist Karl Schmit Ritter von Tavera, the Estates Committee decided on August 20, 1858 and January 4, 1859 to have the rural estates and the Joanneum archives processed uniformly. Schmit toured the archives in Brno and Nuremberg and in his report of February 9, 1859, recommended that the two archives be processed in a uniform and clear manner based on the model of the Moravian State Archives. On June 26, 1868, Joseph Zahn submitted the application for the unification of the two archives to the state committee, and the Styrian state archive was founded with the resolution of the state parliament of September 12, 1868.
The Styrian Provincial Archives served as a model when the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives were founded in 1896.
Since 2000, all holdings have been housed centrally in the former Carmelite monastery at Karmeliterplatz 3.
building
The Carmelite monastery was built according to the plans of Domenico Torres for Archduke Ferdinand from 1628 to 1631. In the course of the Josephine reforms , the monastery was profaned and the tower of the Church of St. Joseph was demolished. After the monastery was closed, the building was used as a garrison hospital until 1918, later as a regional gendarmerie command and finally in 2000 as a state archive.
Stocks and activity
In 2007 the archive comprised around 58,000 documents, 15,000 Styrian townscapes, 90,000 postcards of Styrian towns, as well as plan collections, manuscripts such as the " Georgenberger Handfeste ", 2000 archives from communities and monasteries, and 100 personal papers. All 40,000 Styrian land registers from the 17th century to 1948 are also available here. Since the archive of the inner Austrian authorities was located in Graz from 1564 to the 18th century, the files from the administration of Carinthia , Carniola , Gorizia and Trieste can also be found in the Styrian Provincial Archive . Particularly noteworthy is Lutz's southeast collection with more than 4,500 volumes and almost a thousand maps and 185 pictures.
With around 70 employees and 63,000 rack meters, it is Austria's largest regional archive and one of the most modern. The archive materials are preserved and restored in our own workshops . Since there is also a research assignment, the state archive issues regular publications and organizes exhibitions. Inspection of the archive holdings is possible in a separate reading room by purchasing an archive card, taking into account the applicable protection periods and usage regulations.
A separate studio for reprography and media conversion was set up to digitize old files, documents and plans . The aim is to make archive stocks available online in digital form.
Directors (selection)
- 1873–1905: Joseph Zahn
- 1905– ?: Anton Mell
- 1923–1933: Max Doblinger
- 1933–1945: Ignaz Nößlböck
- 1945–1949: Anna v. Netoliczka
- 1950–1955: Friedrich Popelka
- 1956–1976: Fritz Posch
- 1977–1995: Gerhard Pferschy
- 1996: Heinrich Purkarthofer (interim., Deputy Director 1985–1999)
- 1996–2003: Walter Brunner
- 2003–2016: Josef Riegler
- since 2016: Gernot Peter Obersteiner
literature
- Anton Mell: The Styrian State Archives. In: Kuratorium des Landesmuseum (ed.): The Styrian State Museum Joanneum and its collections 1811–1911. For the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Joanneum. Graz 1911.
- Fritz Posch: Josef (v.) Zahn and the establishment of the Styrian State Archives. In: Communications from the Styrian State Archives. Issue 18, Graz 1968, pp. 25–83, PDF on landesarchiv.steiermark.at.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Posch 1968, p. 56. Quoted from Mell 1911, p. 466f.
- ↑ Posch 1968, p. 57.
- ↑ Posch 1968, p. 61.
- ^ NN: Guide to Libraries. Kleine Zeitung, Graz, 2007 edition.
- ↑ G. Obersteiner, P. Wiesflecker: Das Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv. Department 1D, Graz 8/04.
- ↑ Birgit Scholz: Joseph von Zahn. In: Literature and cultural history handbook of Styria in the 19th century online (lithes.uni-graz.at). April 2011, accessed July 28, 2019.
- ↑ Walter Brunner: Councilor Hon. Dr. Gerhard Pferschy retired. Director of the Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv 1977 to 1995. In: landesarchiv.steiermark.at, accessed on July 28, 2019.