Period: 1492 - 1941 Scope: 6 linear metres = 274 units of description Cataloguing: ordered and indexed, index (2005) Citation method: AHR, 1.1.3.11. No. ... or AHR, Mayor and Council: Police, No. ... Content: Police administration (1791-1936, 21 units) - Population census lists (1819, 11 units) - Population censuses (1807-1938, 13 units) - Statistics (1825-1938, 6 units) - Elections (1848 and 1913-1938, 7 units) - Emigration (1852-1936, 10 units) - Criminal court and criminal justice (1492-1937, 60 units).- Health police, food inspection (1698-1932, 14 VE) - Trade police (1815-1941, 13 VE) - Order and customs police, gambling (1521-1920, 25 VE) - Security police (1676-1937, 30 VE) - Fire protection, fire brigade, fires (1530-1935, 37 VE) - Road police, traffic (1824-1937, 27 VE). Overview: The exercise of police power was one of the privileges of the City of Rostock, which allowed the Council, under its own authority, to issue regulations for all areas of city life. In the sovereign police and land regulations of 1516, 1542, 1562 and 1572 the dukes of Mecklenburg had asserted their increased claim to want to have a regulating and disciplining effect on the ways of life and behaviour of their subjects. The city authorities were urged to act according to these orders. It was under this impression that the Council published in 1538 a first police order - not handed down in the past - which at the same time confirmed its own sovereignty in this field. The inheritance contract of 21 September 1573 made it obligatory for the city to establish a "good, Christian, honourable and cheap police and court order", which had to orient itself to the sovereign orders. On 14 April 1576, the Council's police regulations with their 59 paragraphs were finally in place. The Council subsequently increased its measures to produce a "good policyy" with a large number of individual ordinances and reacted to non-compliance with penalties. Regulations on keeping the streets clean, on engagements, weddings, children's beer parties, mourning ceremonies or fire protection influenced people's everyday lives. A comprehensive catalogue of regulations and restrictions developed. Social discipline was also served by the establishment of the breeding and factory house in the former Catherine monastery in 1728. With the renewed and improved police regulations of 1757, the Council's efforts in the fight against the "abuses and debaucheries that almost overtook from day to day" reached a new quality. However, there was no establishment of a special police authority, and violations continued to be punished by the individual council offices. The Inheritance Treaty of 13 May 1788 confirmed the city's authority to issue its own police orders without interference by the state government, subject to compliance with the state police ordinances. At the same time, Duke Friedrich Franz I allowed the city to set up thirty police guards. With the construction of the police station, a longer process of institutionalization of the police system began. In 1795, the "Neue Monatsschrift für und von Mecklenburg" (New Monthly Bulletin for and of Mecklenburg) named serious deficiencies in the exercise of the police, in particular in the enforcement of the existing ordinances. Points of criticism were the lack of monitoring of bread and meat prices, the rubbish in the streets, the begging, the lack of fire safety, the nightly singing of journeymen on the streets, the purchase of food outside the city gates, the lawn of millers, beach and sand drivers with horse-drawn carts, the neglect of supervision over school attendance. Only with the establishment of the police office on 1 April 1817 did a fundamental change occur. With the "Order of Police Violence" of 14 December 1825, the authorities were given fixed structures and defined powers. The Police Office took over the tasks of the authorities to maintain and enforce order and security, while the College of Police Administration was responsible for street cleaning, refuse collection, street lighting, road construction, sewerage and parks. The two bodies were headed by a director and an assessor who were members of the Council. The police office also had the power to impose penalties, which was the only way to ensure that the numerous ordinances were enforced. To carry out the tasks, a comprehensive apparatus of administrative officers (secretaries, clerks) and security officers (commissioners, watchmen, guards, prison guards) was set up. The municipal police force remained unrestricted even after the unification of the Reich in 1871, but increasingly the laws and regulations enacted by the Reich or the Land became the guideline for police work. With the foundation of the Mecklenburg Ordnungspolizei in 1921, the state police presence was considerably strengthened. The municipal police office was finally replaced by the state police headquarters on 1 April 1937 in the course of the centralisation of the police apparatus promoted by the National Socialists. The city of Rostock only had functions as a local police authority. Publications: Redieck, Matthias / Schade, Achim (ed.): Vom Feuereimer zum Brandschutzamt, Rostock 1993 Manke, Matthias (ed.): "... that all the world would be valued." The inhabitants of Rostock after the census of 1819, Rostock 2005 (Kleine Schriftenreihe des Archivs der Hansestadt Rostock, 15) Manke, Matthias: Polizeiwächter, Schleichwächter, Nachtwächter. The Rostock Ordnungskräfte around 1800 and their social conditions, in: Beitr. Rost. 29th vol. 2007, pp. 37-67
Period: 1508 - 1946 Scope: 19 linear metres = 921 units of description Cataloguing: ordered and indexed, index (2005) Citation method: AHR, 1.1.3.22. No. ... or AHR, Mayor and Council: Construction, Maintenance, Utilities, No. ... Content: Organisation of the building authority (1784-1850, 5 units) - Building yard, building material (1643-1932, 55 units) - Award of municipal contracts (1635-1938, 6 units) - Construction of desert areas, exemption from contributions (1576-1819, 10 units) - Construction planning, urban expansion (1863-1938, 42 units).- Visit to municipal buildings (1694-1914, 11 units) - Town Hall (1533-1938, 32 units) - Buildings and facilities (1535-1938, 98 units) - Monuments (1682, 1814-1946, 23 units) - Building regulations, building police (1617-1938, 44 units).- Supervision of private buildings (1817-1908, 41 units) - building cooperatives, construction companies (1919-1937, 4 units) - city fortifications, defences (1508-1934, 76 units) - streets, squares, bridges, sewers (1651-1941, 51 units).- Street cleaning, street lighting, public toilets (1606-1938, 34 units) - Streets A - Z (1561-1934, 276 units) - Waterborne, water art, wells, pumps, pipes (1550-1930, 62 units) - Waterworks (1859-1940, 23 units) - Gasworks (1856-1938, 19 units) - Electricity Station (1896-1938, 9 units). Overview: Until 1812, the responsibility for the city buildings lay with the city treasury, because it ultimately had to pay the costs for construction and maintenance. The municipal building yard with the necessary material and equipment was administered by the building clerk, as specialists city masons, city carpenters and tower coverers stood in the service of the council. Since the beginning of the 19th century, this structure has been the subject of criticism. The starting point was a revision of the expenditure of the city treasury, which was found to be too high. After visiting the city buildings, the Hundertmännerkollegium was of the opinion that many buildings urgently needed repair. The repairs carried out could have been carried out more cheaply if more expertise had been given to carrying out the tasks and supervision had been better exercised. Finally, in January 1812, an independent building department was formed, which, however, remained part of the Kassendepartement and only since 1854 appears in the lists of authorities as an independent building authority. The building department or building authority was led collegially by a member of the council - he bore the name Director - and four civil deputies. An instruction of 1830 named the responsibilities for the municipal buildings, as far as these were not in combing, weight, poor order or other administrative branches. The responsibility extended to the city, the suburbs and the city field mark, to the port and shipping facilities on the beach and the Warnow as well as to Warnemünde. As officials, the instruction named the building scribe, the carpenter, the excavator master and the crane supervisor. A foreman worked in Warnemünde on a fee basis. The fact that the position of port master carpenter was replaced by that of city master builder in 1835 indicates a change in the emphasis of the work. The planned expansion of the port and the new regulation of the Warnow, made a division of tasks necessary in 1885. The city master builder took over the building construction department, the port construction director the electricity and port construction departments as well as sewage and road construction. Overall, the demands placed on urban construction have increased enormously. The growth of the town required planning services for the new residential areas in front of the Kröpeliner Tor, the Steintor, the Mühlentor and the Petritor. Before the First World War, the Council's Urban Expansion Committees became the most important advisory body on urban development issues. With regard to the construction work, the city was responsible for the necessary development and road construction work, but it also had to create public buildings (e.g. hospitals, schools, municipal theatres) and utilities (gas works, waterworks, power station) in order to secure the community's existence. During the Weimar Republic, combating housing shortages became a central issue. It was not until 1925 that significant progress was made here through the continuation of urban expansion towards the west. The building police regulations for all buildings in the city were initially characterized primarily by the requirements for fire safety. Individual regulations touched half-timbered structures, thatched roofs, wooden gables, tarred roofing felt or chimneys. The regulations for Warnemünde (1848, 1908), for the Kämmerei and hospital area as well as for Rostock, the suburbs and the Stadtfeldmark (1894, 1929) were summarised in extensive building regulations. In Rostock, the Kämmerei was initially responsible for enforcing these regulations, in Warnemünde the Gewett. In 1899 a building police department was set up at the police station, which took over the building supervision for Rostock. After a reorganization, the building supervision was transferred to the building authorities in 1935. Publications: Dehn, Gustav: Organisation des Stadt-Bauamtts, Bauwesens, in: Festschrift der XXVI. Versammlung des Deutschen Vereins für öffentliche Gesundheitspflege, Rostock 1901, S. 129-131 Deutschlands Städtebau. Rostock. Ed. by the Council of the Seestadt Rostock, Berlin-Halensee 1922 and 1927