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Foreword Eisenbahndirektion Würzburg: In this finding aid book 481 archival records are listed, which originate from the levies No. 2/2003 (21.1.2003), 8/2013 (14.03.2013) and 13/2013 (27.06.2013). All the files were handed over by the Bavarian Main State Archives to the Würzburg State Archives for reasons of competence. In addition, the existing inventory of the Würzburg Railway Directorate, which had existed since 1999, was dissolved and newly recorded by the present finding aid book. The first decade of the 20th century brought with it several reforms in the railway administration. A Bavarian Ministry of Transport was formed in 1904 at the level of the central authorities. This took over competences of a ministerial department of the foreign ministry, which was responsible among other things for the railway, the post office and the telegraph system. On 1.7.1907, the two Directorates-General of the State Railways and of Postal and Telegraph Services were dissolved and their powers were also transferred to the Ministry of Transport. The Ministry of Transport existed in this form until 1920, when the railway administration was transferred to the German Reich. Also in 1907, the previous 10 railway operating directorates (Augsburg, Bamberg, Ingolstadt, Kempten, Munich, Nuremberg, Regensburg, Rosenheim, Weiden and Würzburg) were dissolved and new railway directorates created in Augsburg, Munich, Regensburg, Nuremberg and Würzburg (see GVBl. 1906, p. 871). The blasting was not carried out over the entire area according to the district division of the Bavarian state territory, but along the route of the railway network. This took place by law on 28.03.1907 (cf. GVBl. 1907, p. 213). Ludwighafen on the Rhine also had a railway directorate. However, their jurisdiction was limited by the Rhine district. The Sprengel of the railway directorate Würzburg covered large parts of Lower Franconia, but reached through the whole of Western Middle Franconia to Nördlingen in the administrative district Swabia. In Hanns Hubert Hofmann/Hermann Hemmerich, Lower Franconia, history of its administrative structures since the end of the Old Reich 1814-1980, map no. 40 shows the entire area of responsibility of the Würzburg Railway Directorate. The November Revolution of 1918 initially had no influence on the structure of the railway directorates. Since 1918, of course, the addition "royal" has been omitted. Only by the treaty of 30.04.1920 between Bavaria and the German Reich the railway administration was transferred to the responsibility of the Reich. For this reason, the tradition of the Bavarian Railway Directorate in Würzburg ends here. However, the Bavarian administrative structure was continued in the same form by the Reich Ministry of Transport. Inventory history: In accordance with a decree of 24 January 1908, the files of the Ministry of Transport were transferred to the Railway Museum in Nuremberg. After the final dissolution of the Bavarian railway administration in 1933, the files of the middle and lower authorities were added. In 1992, the Bavarian State Archives took over the entire stock of the approximately 60,000 files of the Nuremberg Railway Museum, which are usually referred to as the "Transport Archive". There, the files were analysed according to their provenance and finally distributed to the state archives by summer 2013 in accordance with their responsibilities. principles of order and registration: This collection was structured according to the 1924 file plan. It is kept at the Bavarian Main State Archives under the signature "Ehem. Verkehrsarchiv, Deutsche Reichsbahngesellschaft Gruppenverwaltung Bayern, Nr. 11233". The file plan was probably in use from 1907 to 1931. It is a purely alphabetical file plan. A total of 21 main groups are listed. There are several groups and subgroups below. File numbers for which no files were found are not listed in the table of contents of the finding aid book. The file plan has been extended by three subdivisions. These are the file numbers KrA, KrP and KrB. The letters A, P and B refer to the same complex of topics as those already dealt with elsewhere in the file plan. The extension Kr can be dissolved with "war measures". This is a direct reference to the First World War and its handling. Copies of the file plan described in more detail above can be found in the paper file of the DMS in the office of the Würzburg State Archives under file number 2001-2. The files contained stickers stating that the file had been closed in 1931. This suggests a continuous activity of authorities and registries between 1907 and 1931. The Bavarian Archive Administration is responsible for the transmission of the personnel files of railway officials until 31.03.1920. However, personnel files which were completed much later were also taken over. The last employment authority at the time of retirement was chosen as the basis for the provenance allocation. This unusual provenance assignment was further enforced in the 2003 submission of the Bavarian Main State Archives. Thus, in the present finding aid book, personnel files can also be found which show the Reichs/Federal Railway Directorates of Augsburg, Munich and Nuremberg as provenances. The more recent levies from 2013 no longer followed this principle but were distributed in the usual provenance manner. Since the traffic archive was often quoted in older publications, the old signatures, as they were used at the Railway Museum in Nuremberg, are indicated in each index unit. John Stoiber