Plan of record groups - City Archive Altenburg

It is not possible to determine exactly when the city archive was created. According to an inventory of the privileges and documents existing in the Ratskämmerei from 1638, Friedrich Eichler established the order according to the pertinence principle and in chronological order. Under the supervision of the town clerk Bruno Lammers, the export shipping agent Johann Gottfried Quaas ordered the archive again from 1838 to 1843. The order of 14 main groups produced by Quaas is still preserved today and is continuously supplemented by additions. For centuries the archives were stored in the various rooms of the town hall. Before the First World War, some of these documents were transferred to the old government building at Brühl. The city of Altenburg and the Thuringian State Archives of Altenburg concluded a deposit agreement on 27 September 1926. With effect from 1 January 1955, the city of Altenburg employed its own archivist. Since the city archive had no user room and the archives were stored in the castle area, the users were looked after by the colleagues of the Thuringian State Archive Altenburg until May 1998. With the conversion and extension of the former forestery, the storage and working conditions have fundamentally improved. The colleagues could start their service on 25.05.1998 in the reconstructed rooms. The city archive covers all branches of the city administration. These include hospitals, churches, market, school and poor affairs, lending and siege houses, police, railways, slaughterhouses, savings banks, legacies and foundations, trams, electricity and gas works.

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Im Stadtarchiv lagert Schriftgut, das bei der Stadtverwaltung entstanden ist. Die Benutzung sollte vor Einsicht angemeldet werden. Zu den Beständen des Stadtarchivs liegt eine Bestandsübersicht in gedruckter Form aus. Die Benutzung ist entsprechend der Archivgebührensatzung gebührenpflichtig.