Find aids: Find book around 1900 (online searchable), partly unexcavated inventory information: After the Anhalt division of 1603/06, the newly formed principalities of Bernburg, Dessau, Köthen and Zerbst developed their own archives in their respective residences. In Bernburg, a "main archive" was set up in the palace, which contained the files still needed from the Anhalt General Archives, correspondence and private documents from the Anhalt-Bernburg line as well as from the court and state authorities of the Bernburg region. After the extinction of the Zerbst, Köthen and Bernburg lines in 1863, the country was unified into a duchy. In the years 1872 to 1875, the archives of the Anhalt princes and duchies were merged in Zerbst Palace to form the "Anhalt House and State Archives", which were preserved in their entirety as separate holdings - the so-called "Departments" of Dessau, Köthen and Bernburg - but which were subdivided into a uniform subject scheme irrespective of their provenance. This order could not be implemented for the Anhalt-Zerbster stocks. The "Departments" included, among other things, the files of the highest and upper state authorities, the offices/justice offices and city courts as well as special authorities from about 1606 until the administrative cut after the revolution of 1848 in Anhalt, partly also beyond that. For some of these authorities, provenance inventories have also been handed down. During the Second World War, for security reasons, numerous holdings of the Anhaltisches Staatsarchiv Zerbst, including the archives of the Bernburg Department, were relocated to other locations. A not inconsiderable number of these files have been lost or are considered lost since the end of the war. This applies in particular to the present stock, since the classification groups C 3 to C 8 belong entirely to these war losses. Additional information: A large part of the stock was filmed as part of the GDR backup filming (so-called Fercher films). Included cards: 20
Find aids: Find book around 1900 (online searchable), partly unexcavated inventory information: After the Anhalt division of 1603/06, the newly formed principalities of Bernburg, Dessau, Köthen and Zerbst developed their own archives in their respective residences. In Köthen, an archive was set up in the palace, which still contained required files from the Anhalt Complete Archive, correspondence and private documents of the Anhalt-Köthen line as well as the court and state authorities of the Köthen part of the country. After the extinction of the Zerbst, Köthen and Bernburg lines in 1863, the country was unified into a duchy. From 1872 onwards, the archives of the Anhalt princes and duchies were brought together in Zerbst Palace to form the "Anhalt House and State Archives", which were preserved in their entirety as separate holdings - the so-called "Departments" of Dessau, Köthen and Bernburg - but which were subdivided into a uniform subject scheme irrespective of their provenance. The "Departments" included, among other things, the files of the highest and upper state authorities, the offices/justice offices and city courts as well as special authorities from about 1606 until the administrative cut after the revolution of 1848 in Anhalt, partly also beyond that. For some of these authorities, provenance inventories have also been handed down. During the Second World War, for security reasons, numerous holdings of the Anhaltisches Staatsarchiv Zerbst, including the archives of the Köthen Department, were relocated to other locations. A not inconsiderable number of these files have been lost or are considered lost since the end of the war. Occasionally, the present stock is also affected. Additional information: The stock was filmed as part of the GDR backup filming (so-called Fercher films). Included cards: 12
Find aids: Findbuch 1982 (online searchable) Registraturbilddner: Staatsministerien als obererste Verwaltungsbehörden entstanden in den anhaltischen Teilfürstentümern als Folge der Revolution von 1848 und per Verordnung vom 5. April 1848, die eine dreistufige Staatsverwaltung ein eingeleitetitete. In the course of the constitutional unification of the two duchies, the State Ministry of Dessau was formed on 25 May 1853 from the three State Ministries of the Federal State, the State Ministry of Dessau and the State Ministry of Köthen. After the extinction of the Dukes of Anhalt-Bernburg, the Dessau State Ministry merged with the Bernburg State Ministry on 13 September 1863 to form the Dessau State Ministry. The Anhalt state ministries were formally responsible for all departments as higher authorities with "directing, ordering, supervising and executive power". There was no division into individual ministries. For the execution of certain specialist tasks, the governments and their specialist departments were subordinated to them as intermediate authorities, which in turn subordinated the district directorates as subordinate authorities. The separation of the judiciary and administration at all levels has been achieved through the establishment of specific judicial authorities. Inventory information: The files were first kept at the State Ministry Dessau 3 as "Aktenrepertorium Herzoglich Anhaltischen Staatsministeriums D" and at the end of the 19th century were handed over to the State Archive Zerbst, where they were filed under Rep. 7. Additional information: The filming took place as part of the GDR backup filming (so-called Fercher films). Included cards: 3