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History of authorities and holdingsThe collections (J holdings) of the Main State Archives are not a self-contained group of holdings. Some of them are seldom or only occasionally, some of them frequently growing. Compared to the overview published in print in 1974 (Veröffentlichungen der Staatlichen Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg Vol. 30: Übersicht über die Bestände des Haupt- staatsarchivs. Collections (J holdings), edited by Paul Sauer with the collaboration of Eberhard Gönner, Heinz Bardua and Luise Pfeifle, Stuttgart 1974), the number of collections has increased from 88 at that time to 180 today, although some have resulted from the splitting of larger holdings into partial holdings (especially J 53). The total volume of the holdings has more than doubled in the meantime. The present overview represents a version of the previous brief overviews as of 1 April 2000, and at the same time goes beyond them. The online inventory overview provides more detailed information on the finding aids (in addition to the type of finding aid, also the processor, year of completion, page number). Descriptions characterising the content of the holdings have been inserted as far as possible. Individual descriptions of holdings that have not been changed, or hardly changed at all, could be taken from the printed overview of 1974 (especially J 1-J 15). The majority, however, require extensive revision or revision or initial version. Corresponding descriptions that are currently missing are to be created and incorporated into the online overview step by step, as far as the respective development status permits. 999 metres of occupied shelf space (metres of shelf space) were occupied within the J Group on the cut-off date by written and printed records. In addition, there are extensive stocks which are stored very differently in drawing and card index cabinets, in cartons and boxes and can therefore not be measured by shelf meters but by numbers of units. This includes seal collections (approx. 42000), coat of arms collections (approx. 60000), slides of own archives (approx. 11400), microfiches of files of the American military government (OMGUS, approx. 11000), aerial photographs of Baden-Württemberg (approx. 19000 flights to the state of Baden-Württemberg, approx. 5000 in the Kirschfeld Collection), wall attacks and posters (approx. 6400) and paper image collections (approx. 2300).