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The historical records kept in the Westphalian aristocratic archives document not only the history of the respective families and estates, but also the Westphalian regional, local, family, economic and social history as a whole. The Westphalian aristocracy became aware of the resulting responsibility for the general public over 90 years ago. On 11 December 1923, 23 representatives of the nobility founded the association "Vereinigte Westfälische Adelsarchive e.V." in Münster. The first statutory aim of this association was to ensure the preservation of the archives and to make them accessible for research. This purpose has been maintained to this day. Since 1956 this task has been carried out in cooperation with the LWL-Archivamt für Westfalen of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe. While the owners of the archives create the conditions for a permanent and professional storage of the archives in their houses, the LWL-Archivamt für Westfalen is responsible for the professional indexing and support. This made it possible that in Westphalia almost all of the 100 or so private aristocratic archives were accessible for science as well as for homeland and family research, a state which is probably not reached to this extent in any other region of Germany.
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Archive Office for Westphalia
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- German
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- Latin
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