Existing history: <br /> Originally, the city administration was divided into two main departments, or sections, with the Ratsstube as the administrative core, which at the same time also gave the city its name. To the I. Section, the actual municipality administration, belong the title files and monastery files (see da).<br />The files of the II. Section embody the records of the official business and the welfare police. The following supervisory duties were performed: Market police, measuring and trade police, trade, road, building and fire police, health and medical police, religious and moral police, as well as poor affairs, city lighting, breeding and supply house and water arts, piping and locks, after the abolition of the book commission also the book and press police. According to the wide range of tasks, a wide variety of processes (e.g. craftsmen's guilds, commercial and industrial matters, construction disputes, concesson awards and homelands) have been handed down in the inventory. Whereas in the 17th and 18th centuries the focus was on land matters, building measures, debts and infringements of guild articles, in the 19th century it shifted to the granting of concessions and the issue of certificates of origin. Guild and trade affairs have been handed down throughout.<br />As the activities of the Second Section in the 19th century became more and more comprehensive, subdivisions were formed from which later various offices developed, including the Health Office, the Building Police Office, the Trade Office and the Trade Court, the Office for the Poor and the Police and the Statistical Office.<br /> With the reorganization of the Council Archive around 1884, the older files were separated from the current files and into the cellars of the former museum belonging to the Council Archive I, which belonged to the basement rooms of the former museum. <br /> Signature example: <br /> II. champagne. A (F) No. 1<br />II. champagne. A (K) No 100