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Description of the holdings: Dept. 27 Städtischer Hafenbetrieb Scope: 42 archive boxes (= 285 units of description incl. 5 copies of plans Überformate = additional 4 running metres) Duration: 1892 - 1980 On 28.1.2011, in the building of the Hafen Betriebs GmbH of the city of Worms (Hafenstr. 4), one of the archive managers together with Dipl.-Arch. (FH) Tanja Wolf and the files were sorted out. At the beginning of January 2011, the archive manager had contacted Mr. Karl-Heinz Adelfinger by telephone with Mr. Ruthmann as the person in charge on site as part of the usual searches for municipal files in various offices after the managing director of Hafen-Betriebs-GmbH had been called in beforehand. Since the latter pointed out that the building, which had been used at least since the war as the administrative headquarters of the port operations (until 2002 part of the Stadtwerke, since then GmbH under the roof of the municipal holding company, Dez. II Bgm. Büttler), contained quite extensive records dating back to before the war, a visit was arranged to determine which files and plans were to be evaluated as worthy of archiving and could be taken over by the municipal archives. With the cellar we found an orderly, safe and securely locked room suitable for storage, in which rich files of the time were found at least since the 1920s. In some cases (for the post-war period) a selection was made for takeover; the files and records of the last approx. 30 years remain unaffected by the collection. The interest in the documents, their state of order, the feeling for their value and their quite good accommodation in the port administration are by no means to be taken for granted and positively emphasised. The condition at the time of the selection was recorded in four photos. Two boxes with rolled plans are completely taken from the archive and viewed, photo material existed only in the form of a few large-format black-and-white wall pictures. The documents of the port operation and the port railway are of importance for questions of economic and company history, for aspects of technical history and others. The port as an important municipal infrastructure project of the 1890s has remained an important economic factor for many companies in Worms to this day. The focus of the tradition is on correspondence files between the port operations and the companies located in the port with a focus on the period between 1920 and 1955. There were no war losses. With regard to the treatment of the documents in the archive, it was decided that the closed files, which were kept beyond 1945, would be set up as a new archive collection of their own under the municipal provenances (new Dept. 27 Municipal Port Operations). This is supported not only by this practical argument but also by today's legal independence in the form of a limited liability company. Since no port office files are kept in Dept. 6 so far (only organisation and inspection documents of the RPA etc.), there is at most an overlap with files of the file plan group XVI.5.m Port for the period of approx. 1893 (completion of the port extension) and the 1920s in Dept. 5 Cf. also files on the port in Dept. 30 (District Office Worms). The evaluated documents were collected on 16.2.2011 and archived. The recording (under selective subsequent cassation, files with the beginning of the term before 1948 were generally excluded from this) took place from March to June 2011 by Mr Martin Geyer. Lit. on port construction 1890-1893: Die Hafen- und Uferbauten zu Worms 1890-1893, Worms 1893; F. Reuter, Karl Hofmann und das neue Worms, 1992, pp. 183-186, cf. the annual administrative reports (printed until 1928). Gerold Bönnen/Martin Geyer, Worms