The Württemberg Embassy in Switzerland was established in the first half of 1807 in connection with the conclusion of a trade agreement between Württemberg and Switzerland. After the recall of the envoy in 1817 it remained unoccupied(1). It was not until 1865, again in the course of a trade agreement, that it was re-established and existed until a large part of Württemberg foreign policy was transferred to the Reich in 1871(2). Württemberg envoys in Switzerland were: Johann Baptist Martin Edler Arand von Ackerfeld, Legation Council (June 1807-Jan. 1812) August Friedrich von Batz (Febr. 1812-Jan. 1814) Carl Philipp von Kaufmann, Privy Legation Councillor (Jan. 1814-Dec. 1817) Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr Hugo von Spitzemberg (1865-Oct. 1866) Maximilian Adolf Freiherr von Ow, Privy Legation Councillor and Chamberlain (Oct. 1866-July 1871). The envoy of Ow proposed in 1866 the establishment of a consulate in Bern, whose consul was to represent him during his stays in Florence as an envoy in Italy and "take care of the current business, unless it requires special diplomatic treatment", for example passport matters; this was approved by King Charles in November 1866, consul in Bern became the merchant Albert Rooschütz (Nov. 1866-May 1873). In the absence of the envoy, his registry was kept and continued by the consul, also from 1871 until the dissolution of the consulate in 1873(3). The seat of the envoy was presumably Zurich until December 1816, and then permanently Bern(4). In 1865-1871 the legation and the consulate were located in the same building, probably in the house Hirschengraben 171, where the envoy lived(5). The files of the first registration layer (1807-1817) were probably sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs soon after the envoy was recalled. In the "Archive Register" of 1873(6), only the files of the second layer (1865-1873) are listed; these came to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1877. The delivery to the Staatsfilialarchiv and classification into the later holdings E 70 under directory numbers 52 and 52 a (for the first or second registration layer, with overlaps) probably took place before 1896, since the files of directory 53 were already there at that time(7). The State Archives presumably received the holdings together with other diplomatic files and holdings of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1901(8). The lists of singles are kept in holdings E 61 x volume 35 and 37. The corresponding counter-files from the registry of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are to be found in holdings E 50/16 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). In the first registration layer, correspondence series predominate, especially for relations (diplomatic reports to the king); documents on international treaties were created as fact files. In the second registration layer, both subject files and subject series were formed, and finally both registration layers contain individual case files on subjects' affairs.the categories I-III of the second registration layer were recorded in 1971 by archive assistant Herwig John, the processors of the remaining files could no longer be determined.the old registration signature of the "archive register" serving as an order criterion is listed as pre-signature 1, the old archive signature as pre-signature 2.The stock E 70 v comprises 110 tufts (1.8 running m).Stuttgart, in May 2000 Hartmut Obst(1) cf. E 70 v Bü. 43(2) cf. E 70 v Bü. 56 and 61(3) cf. E 50/60 Bü. 32(4) cf. E 70 v Bü. 44(5) cf. E 70 v Bü. 57(6) in E 50/60 Bü. 32(7) cf. E 50/60 Bü. 32(8) cf. K. O. 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