Vorarlberg State Archives

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The Vorarlberg State Archives are located in the former Waldburg-Wolfegg Palace in Bregenz Kirchstrasse
The "Landhaus in der Kirchstrasse" in 1912, when the building served as the headquarters of the mortgage bank
View of the Vorarlberg State Archives building from the north with the underground storage facility and archive extension in the foreground

The Vorarlberg State Archives in Bregenz is the public archive of the State of Vorarlberg . It is set up to secure the archives of the state and to document the history of the state, impart knowledge and research.

history

By order of 28 January 1898 commissioned Vorarlberg state parliament the National Committee to make suitable Archives locate and direct the appointment of a professionally trained person in the ways. Three weeks later, Viktor Kleiner, the first state archivist, was appointed and in October 1898 rooms were rented for the state archive in the “Seekaserne” in Bregenz (Inselstrasse 8, post office until 1895, before that the financial guard barracks ). Initially, it was intended to archive files from state courts under the supervision of the Imperial and Royal Lieutenancy Archives for Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Innsbruck . Within a few years, however, Kleiner expanded the state archive into an autonomous state institution that secured archives from the state, the state, former judicial communities, political communities and parishes, including the oldest document a papal document from the abolished Benedictine monastery Mehrerau from 1139.

Not the autonomous (regional), but the state (sovereign) provincial administration for Tyrol and Vorarlberg was jointly managed by an Imperial and Royal Lieutenancy in Innsbruck. In 1918, when Austria-Hungary collapsed , the provisional state assembly of Vorarlberg terminated this administrative unit. From 1919 to 1921, the Vorarlberg State Archives were able to take over large amounts of Vorarlberg archives from the former Lieutenancy Archives (now the Tyrolean State Government Archives).

In the autumn of 1920, the State Archives moved completely to the "Landhaus in der Kirchstrasse" (Kirchstrasse 28, also known as the "Altes Landhaus"), which the state had acquired in 1901 . This baroque building had city councilor Mathias Christoph von Bildstein built around 1690. In 1732 it was bought by the Upper Swabian count family Waldburg-Wolfegg , who used it as a possible refuge in the event of war until 1780. From 1901 the building was used by the state of Vorarlberg for various departments. From 1901 to 1923, the mortgage bank of the state of Vorarlberg was housed here. The state archive was able to move into its first rooms in 1904 and 1913. The cellars, which were adapted as storage rooms for the state archive in 1920, turned out to be unsuitable.

In 1931 the state parliament decided to have a storage building added. It was planned by the Bregenz architect Willibald Braun and executed as a poured concrete structure. In 1933, the company moved into Austria's most modern archive building for many years. Like the main building, it is now a listed building. When the Provincial Governing Body of Vorarlberg was dissolved in 1940 and merged with the Provincial Governing Body of Tyrol in Innsbruck and converted into the authority of the Reich Governor in Tyrol and Vorarlberg , the Vorarlberg Provincial Archives remained in Innsbruck as the Bregenz branch of the Reichsgau Archives Tyrol and Vorarlberg (previously Tyrolean Provincial Government Archives and Tyrolean Provincial Archives) in Innsbruck. With the end of the Nazi regime, the rebuilding of the Vorarlberg state administration began in May 1945. The state archive was once again a subordinate agency of the Vorarlberg state government.

From 2001 to 2003 the warehouse building, which was occupied in 1933, was renovated and restored to its original condition in accordance with the listed building standards. It was connected to a three-storey, air-conditioned underground storage facility built at the same time (architect Josef Fink, Bregenz), which was put into operation in 2004.

In Vorarlberg, the head of the Landesarchiv has been using the title “Landesarchivar” or “Landesarchivarin” since it was founded. On Viktor Kleiner (1898-1939) followed as the country archivists Meinrad Tiefenthaler (1939-1963), Louis Welti (1963-1969), Karl Heinz Burmeister (1969-2001), Alois Niederstätter (2001-2019) and Ulrich Nachbaur (since 2019) .

Vorarlberg State Library

Around 1900, State archivist Kleiner began building a library. His goal was a publicly accessible state library as an extension of the state archive. In March 1904, rooms in the “Landhaus in der Kirchstrasse” (Kirchstrasse 28) were assigned to him for this purpose, and on October 31, 1904, the Landtag approved the establishment of a regional library. But the library regulations issued in 1908 restricted them to an official library. The efforts to expand in the direction of the state library were only successful after 1945. On September 1, 1977, the Vorarlberg State Library was spun off from the State Archives and made an independent office. In 1985 she moved to the former St. Gallus monastery .

State registration office

In 1921, state registration offices were set up at the offices of the state governments, in Vienna at the Federal Police Directorate. They had the task of issuing certificates of military service and awards to former soldiers who were entitled to reside in the respective federal states and who had served in the armed power of Austria-Hungary . In 1939 the decentralized registration offices were merged to form the United Defense Registration Office in Vienna, but in 1944 they were partially outsourced due to the danger of bombs. The records for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, which were housed in a hotel in Kössen , took over the office of the Tyrolean provincial government as the state registry for Tyrol and Vorarlberg in 1947. The Vorarlberg documents finally returned to Bregenz in 1954. While evidence units were set up in the offices of the provincial governments in Tyrol, Salzburg and Upper Austria (until 1956), the provincial archives were entrusted with this task in Vorarlberg. Until the 1980s, it issued confirmations in indirect federal administration . That is why the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv still has the relevant military records for those born between 1865 and 1900, as well as Tyrol and Salzburg. The rest are in the Austrian State Archives in Vienna.

Vorarlberg microfilm backup archive

The destruction during the Second World War led to the adoption of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict in 1954 . The contracting parties undertook to secure the cultural property on their territory as early as peacetime. This also includes important collections of books and archive materials. Another problem with written material is that paper is only resistant to aging to a limited extent. The information can be saved as a second transmission by microfilming. Great efforts have been made in Germany and a "central salvage site of the Federal Republic of Germany" has been set up in a former mine . The same applies to Switzerland, but not to Austria. In 1999 the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv initiated a systematic backup filming as part of an employment project for long-term unemployed people. In 2000, on behalf of the Vorarlberg provincial government , the state archive also began setting up a Vorarlberg microfilm backup archive . The security films are stored in a culture protection bunker (as of December 31, 2016: 7,487 film rolls with over 4.3 million recordings).

Stocks

Storage of holdings from the VLA in the in-house underground storage facility under the historical archive extension

Finding aids are available online for a large part of the holdings ( inventory overview ). An electronic archive information system is still in the development phase.

Archives Act: Freedom of Information

Since 1998 the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv has endeavored to dismantle legal access restrictions as far as possible. A progressive archives law has been in force for Vorarlberg since July 1, 2016, which regulates the safeguarding of archives of the state, the municipality and other archives of public interest and access to these archives. With the purpose (§ 2):

“Securing archived material should ensure the traceability of state and state-related actions and an authentic tradition of the history of the state and municipalities; the cultural heritage of the state of Vorarlberg should be preserved. "

- § 2 Archives Act

The archive material is accessible to everyone. The general term of protection is 20 years. With the archive regulations for the Vorarlberg State Archives, further barriers to access and further use have been removed. The tasks and organization are regulated in the statute of the Vorarlberg State Archives.

Online reading room

Since 2008, the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv has made archives available in the form of digital copies, partly in cooperation with platforms, in general and without restriction:

  • Holdings of documents (approx. 10,000 documents in the period from 1139 to 2008).
  • Civil status records (baptism / birth records, marriage books, death records of Catholic and Protestant parishes, which in Austria were also managed on behalf of the state until 1938 and are subject to the civil status law as "old registers").
  • Municipal coat of arms (In the municipal law of 1965, the Vorarlberg state government was obliged to give all outstanding municipalities a coat of arms within five years. The duplicates of the heraldic letters are saved in the state archive).
  • Family coat of arms (from the collection of Pastor Gebhard Wendelin Gunz).

The majority of publications published by the Vorarlberg State Archives are also freely available online. The State Archives also deliver online versions to the German National Library for backup and distribution. In addition, some publications from the State Archives that have been published by other publishers are also accessible online.

Music collection

In 1958 a Vorarlberg folk song archive was set up (not to be confused with the Vorarlberger Volksliedwerk ). In 2000 it was integrated into the Vorarlberg State Archives as a music collection. The music collection documents the regional music history beyond the folk song area.

Institute for Regional Research in Social Sciences

On January 1, 2005, the Vorarlberg State Archives became part of the Institute for Regional Research in Social Sciences (previously Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Regional Research in Social Sciences). The institute initiates, directs, promotes and accompanies research projects in the field of social and historical sciences with a special focus on the Lake Constance area.

Magazines

In 1904, State archivist Kleiner founded the “Archive for History and Regional Studies of Vorarlberg”, a historical and regional history journal that was published by the Vorarlberger Landesmuseumsverein . In 1917 it was renamed “Quarterly Journal for the History and Regional Studies of Vorarlberg” and was published until 1927.

From 1926 to 1937 the “ Leogesellschaft am Bodensee” (founded in 1902 as the “Association for Christian Art and Science”), the “Alemannia. Journal for all areas of knowledge and art with a special focus on local history ”. The association and the editorial team were closely connected to the state archive.

In 1946 the “Montfort” became the successor to “Alemannia”. Quarterly magazine for the past and present of Vorarlberg ”. Until 1954 it was self-published by the Vorarlberg State Archives and the Vorarlberg State Museum. From 1955 to 2010 it was published by the Vorarlberger Verlagsanstalt. Since 2011 it has been published as “Montfort. Journal for the History of Vorarlberg ”in the StudienVerlag . Editors were or are, in some cases jointly: Land archivist Meinrad Tiefenthaler (1946–1967), Arnulf Benzer (1955–1986), State archivist Karl Heinz Burmeister (1978–2010), Reinhold Bernhard (1987–1989) and State archivist Alois Niederstätter (since 2002).

Well-known employees of the state archive

literature

Karl Heinz Burmeister : Vorarlberger Landesarchiv Bregenz (=  "Little Art Guide" . Volume 1324 ). Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Munich / Zurich 1982 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website). <

Web links

Commons : Vorarlberger Landesarchiv  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Statute of the Vorarlberg State Archives . In: Official Journal for the State of Vorarlberg . No. 23 , 10 June 2016 ( OJ No. 23/2016 [PDF]).
  2. ^ Ulrich Nachbaur : The Vorarlberg State Archives - Founding and Development 1898–1920 . In: Karl Heinz Burmeister and Alois Niederstätter (eds.): Archive and history. 100 Years of the Vorarlberg State Archive (= Vorarlberg State Archive [Hrsg.]: Research on the history of Vorarlberg . Volume 3 (NF)). Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1998, ISBN 978-3-87940-636-4 , p. 9–75 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  3. ^ Ulrich Nachbaur : Effects of the Bavarian reforms from 1806 to 1814 on the Vorarlberg administrative structures . In: Alois Niederstätter , Ulrich Nachbaur (eds.): 200 years of community organization. Almanac for the Vorarlberg community year 2008 . Bregenz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902622-10-5 , pp. 371–442 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  4. ↑ Certificate: Mehrerau, Kloster 773 (Vorarlberger Landesarchiv) in the European document archive Monasterium.net .
  5. ↑ Explanations on the Imperial and Royal Lieutenancy in the archive glossary of the Tyrolean Provincial Archives (entry "Lieutenancy").
  6. ^ Ulrich Nachbaur : The Vorarlberg State Archives - Founding and Development 1898–1920 . In: Karl Heinz Burmeister and Alois Niederstätter (eds.): Archive and history. 100 Years of the Vorarlberg State Archive (= Vorarlberg State Archive [Hrsg.]: Research on the history of Vorarlberg . Volume 3 (NF)). Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1998, ISBN 978-3-87940-636-4 , p. 94–96 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  7. ^ Meinrad Tiefenthaler : Das Vorarlberger Landesarchiv: Overview of the holdings of the Landesarchive and report on the parish archives Vorarlberg . In: after work. Weekly supplement to the “ Vorarlberger Tagblatt ” . Volume 21, episode 9, February 22, 1939, p. 77–100 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  8. ^ Ulrich Nachbaur : The Vorarlberg State Archives - Founding and Development 1898–1920 . In: Karl Heinz Burmeister and Alois Niederstätter (eds.): Archive and history. 100 Years of the Vorarlberg State Archive (= Vorarlberg State Archive [Hrsg.]: Research on the history of Vorarlberg . Volume 3 (NF)). Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1998, ISBN 978-3-87940-636-4 , p. 78–81 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  9. ^ Karl Heinz Burmeister : Vorarlberger Landesarchiv Bregenz (=  "Small Art Guide" . Volume 1324 ). Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1982, p. 2–4 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  10. ^ Ulrich Nachbaur : The Mortgage Bank of the State of Vorarlberg 1897 to 1925 . In: Montfort. Quarterly magazine for the past and present of Vorarlberg . 60th year, issue 1/2, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85430-339-8 , p. 52–81 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  11. ^ Meinrad Tiefenthaler : The new building of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv in Bregenz . In: Archival Journal . No. 42/43 , 1934, pp. 379–382 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  12. ^ Alois Niederstätter : The Vorarlberg State Archives 1938–1945 . In: Austria's archives under the swastika (= General Directorate of the Austrian State Archives [Hrsg.]: Mitteilungen des Österreichisches Staatsarchivs . Volume 54 ). Studienverlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-4941-7 , p. 623–644 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  13. ↑ a b The head of the administrative agenda was Adalbert Welte from 1963 to 1967 . See also:
    Cornelia Albertani: Personnel of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv . In: Karl Heinz Burmeister and Alois Niederstätter (eds.): Archive and history. 100 Years of the Vorarlberg State Archive (= Vorarlberg State Archive [Hrsg.]: Research on the history of Vorarlberg . Volume 3 (NF)). Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1998, ISBN 978-3-87940-636-4 , p. 257-258 .
  14. ↑ Ulrich Nachbaur becomes the new head of the Vorarlberg State Archives. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). November 27, 2018, accessed March 27, 2019 .
  15. ^ Ulrich Nachbaur : The Vorarlberg State Archives - Founding and Development 1898–1920 . In: Karl Heinz Burmeister and Alois Niederstätter (eds.): Archive and history. 100 Years of the Vorarlberg State Archive (= Vorarlberg State Archive [Hrsg.]: Research on the history of Vorarlberg . Volume 3 (NF)). Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1998, ISBN 978-3-87940-636-4 , p. 75–78 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  16. ^ Karl Heinz Burmeister : The Vorarlberg State Library. Review and outlook . In: Montfort. Quarterly magazine for the past and present of Vorarlberg . 28th year, issue 3, 1976, p. 192–200 ( available online from ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online ).
  17. ↑ Information on the military land register in the archive information system of the Austrian State Archives .
  18. ^ Ulrich Nachbaur : Vorarlberg backup filming of archives . In: Annual report of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv 2006 (= Vorarlberger Landesarchiv [Hrsg.]: Small writings of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv . Volume 1 ). 2007, ISBN 978-3-9502171-3-1 , ISSN  2070-352X , p. 8–20 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  19. ^ Annual report of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv 2016 (= Vorarlberger Landesarchiv [Hrsg.]: Small writings of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv . Volume 33 ). 2017, ISBN 978-3-902622-32-7 , ISSN  2070-352X , p. 29 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  20. ^ Markus Schmidgall: On the introduction of an archive information system in Vorarlberg . In: The Vorarlberg archive information system. Conference documentation for the 22nd Vorarlberg Archives Day on October 23, 2015 in the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv in Bregenz (= Vorarlberger Landesarchiv [Hrsg.]: Kleine Schriften des Vorarlberger Landesarchivs . Volume 31 ). 2016, ISBN 978-3-902622-30-3 , ISSN  2070-352X , p. 7–8 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  21. ^ Ulrich Nachbaur : Project “Vorarlberg Archive Law” . In: Annual report of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv 2014 (= Vorarlberger Landesarchiv [Hrsg.]: Kleine Schriften des Vorarlberger Landesarchivs . Volume 27 ). 2015, ISBN 978-3-902622-26-6 , ISSN  2070-352X , p. 12–21 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  22. ↑ Archives Act, Vorarlberger Landesgesetzblatt No. 1/2016 with ordinance on the transfer of the authority to issue notices on access to the state's archives to the State Archives, LGBl. No. 68/2016
  23. ↑ Ulrich Nachbaur : New legal system of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv . In: Annual report of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv 2016 (= Vorarlberger Landesarchiv [Hrsg.]: Kleine Schriften des Vorarlberger Landesarchivs . Volume 33 ). 2017, ISBN 978-3-902622-32-7 , ISSN  2070-352X , p. 7–8 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  24. ↑ Certificates (online). Vorarlberger Landesarchiv, accessed on September 4, 2017 .
  25. ↑ Civil status books (online). Vorarlberger Landesarchiv, accessed on September 4, 2017 .
  26. ^ Geography - municipal coat of arms . Vorarlberger Landesarchiv, accessed on September 4, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Ulrich Nachbaur : The Vorarlberg community symbols - legal and legal-historical aspects . In: Ulrich Nachbaur, Alois Niederstätter (Hrsg.): Vorarlberg community symbols: Heraldic and legal aspects. Lectures of the 17th Vorarlberg Archives Day 2007 (= Vorarlberger Landesarchiv [Hrsg.]: Small writings of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv . Volume 7 ). 2007, ISBN 978-3-902622-00-6 , ISSN  2070-352X , p. 16–59 ( full text as PDF on the website of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv).
  28. ↑ Cornelia Albertani, Ulrich Nachbaur : Vorarlberg municipal coat of arms registry . Inventory as of September 1, 2007 (= Vorarlberger Landesarchiv [Hrsg.]: Kleine Schriften des Vorarlberger Landesarchivs . Volume 6 ). 3. Edition. Bregenz 2011 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  29. ^ Collection of Gebhard Wendelin Gunz (1881-1956). Vorarlberger Landesarchiv, accessed on September 4, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Publications (Downloads). Vorarlberger Landesarchiv, accessed on September 4, 2017 .
  31. ↑ Online publications, electronic resources. Vorarlberger Landesarchiv, accessed on September 4, 2017 .
  32. ↑ Annemarie Bösch-Niederer: “… a little place in the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv” - review of 50 years of Vorarlberg folk song archive . In: Annemarie Bösch-Niederer (Ed.): 50 Years of Vorarlberg Folk Song Archive. Contributions to the festive event on November 21, 2008 (= Vorarlberger Landesarchiv [Hrsg.]: Kleine Schriften des Vorarlberger Landesarchivs . Volume 13 ). Bregenz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902622-09-9 , pp. 35–42 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).
  33. ^ Institute for Social Science Regional Research - Tasks. In: Website of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
  34. ↑ Archive for History and Regional Studies of Vorarlberg ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Available online in the holdings of the Lake Constance libraries. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bodenseebibliotheken.de
  35. ^ Leo Society Branch Association Vorarlberg . In: Westallgäuer Heimatblätter . tape 2 , no. July 19 , 1926, p. 83–84 ( available online in the holdings of the Lake Constance libraries).
  36. ↑ Alemannia. Journal for all areas of knowledge and art with a special focus on local history ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Available online in the holdings of the Lake Constance libraries. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bodenseebibliotheken.de
  37. ↑ Montfort. Quarterly magazine for the past and present of Vorarlberg . Available online in the ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online stock .
  38. ↑ Alois Niederstätter : Dr. Arnulf Benzer (December 15, 1910 to August 18, 2009) - to commemorate the co-founder and long-time editor of the Montfort . In: Montfort. Quarterly magazine for the past and present of Vorarlberg . Volume 61, Issue 3, 2009, ISBN 978-3-85430-346-6 , pp. 151–154 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website).