06.03.2020: The State Archive Würzburg participates in the joint day of the Würzburg Archives on Friday 6. March from 14 am to 7 pm.
The 10th day of the archives will be held on the first weekend of March. Several hundred archives in Germany open the doors to their treasury chambers and show their work with historical documents. Archive and Library of the Diocese of Würzburg (ABBW), City Archive Würzburg, State Archive Würzburg and University Archive Würzburg invite you to an event in the archive and library of the Diocese of Würzburg, Domerschulstraße 17. Time: 14:00: welcome, general introduction, short presentation of houses (transmission profile) Announcement of individual programme points (Cramer Hall) 15:00/ 16:00/ 17:00: Introduction Personal research (Reading room) Magazine guide (Magazin) 18:00: Lecture by Prof. Dr. Matthias Stickler, “A Facebook of the Old European University – The masterbook collection of the Würzburg Institute of Higher Education as a source of communication history” (Cramer Hall) 19:00: Event ending Accompanying programme: Foyer: Archival presentation of ABBW on media history Reading room: Possibility of implementing Personal searches (Galerie in the reading room: Information booths Small archives exhibitions of the State Archives, the City Archives and the University Archive on the topics “Archival Sources of Communication History – Selected Examples” (The introduction of this topic will take place at 15/16/17 a.m. through another archive with a view to its stocks) Submitted at: 06.02.2020 Related
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22.01.2020: "Grund und Boden – highly estimated. The floor estimate in the Oberpfalz – from analog to digital" - exhibition at the Staatsarchiv Amberg
Wednesday, 22. January 2020, the small exhibition “Grund und Boden – was highly appreciated in the Amberg State Archive. The soil estimate in the Oberpfalz – from analog to digital” opens. The exhibition is a cooperation project of the Amberg State Archives with the Office for Digitization, Broadband and Survey Amberg and the Weiden Finance Office. What is a field or a meadow worth? What's the ground? How do climate and water conditions shape? Answers to these questions arise from the soil estimate. The soil estimate is an inventory of agricultural soils according to the nature of their use and their natural viability. It is used to tax agricultural assets, but it is also important as a basis for determining value in land transport and rural development, land protection and land information systems. The exhibition with about 60 exhibits traces the history of soil estimation from its beginnings in the 1930s to the present and presents its organization and execution yesterday and today. Estimation cards and estimates books, which have only recently been submitted to the Amberg State Archive, documents, practical instructions, photos, technical equipment and soil samples, are shown. A fair distribution of the loads according to ownership and economic power has always been a reason for the tax on land and land. In addition, the exhibition therefore illustrates the prehistory: possessions and tax books from the Middle Ages and early modern times as well
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21.01.2020: Bavaria and Poland in the first half of 20. Century. Strokes on an alternating relationship
Tuesday, 21. January 2020, the small exhibition “Bayern and Poland” was held in the first half of the 20th century in the Bavarian State Archives Directorate-General. Century. Opened to an interchangeable relationship. The exhibition was opened in the course of training in the preparatory service 2018/2020 for the entry into the 4th Qualification level of the field of education and science, specialist focus on archives, at the Bavarian Archive School. Dr. Katharina Aubele, Dr. Julia Oberst and Dr. Hubert Seliger are responsible for the exhibition. In addition to their position in the middle of Europe, Bavaria and Poland have two particularities: both countries have undergone a change in state development and both have not been seldom playing ball of the Great Powers In addition, in the first half of the 20. numerous connections and interfaces between Bavaria and Poland, which are illuminated in more detail in the small exhibition. Despite the rather light-like approach, attempts are being made to remember forgotten aspects of common, also pan-European history. In addition to basic questions about who was Pole from the Bavarian perspective and how the diplomatic relations between Bavaria and Poland and the Polish Consulate General in Munich developed, the exhibition follows the traces of Polish students in Bavaria. What Polish associations and student connections were there? Why had Bavarian universities at the beginning of the 20th century A century of attraction
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15.01.2020: Reduction of two medieval documents from the USA - Press discussion on 15th January 2019 in the State Archive Nuremberg
Wednesday, 15. January 2020 (15.00) two documents missing since the end of World War II were returned to the State Archive Nuremberg by the Federal Foreign Office. The two documents from 1418 showed up in the USA in 2019 in the estate of a former US soldier and were able to be returned to Nuremberg by the Federal Foreign Office. In the Second World War, the State Archive Nuremberg held its most valuable collections due to imminent air raids at numerous mountain sites. In total, almost 17 kilometres of archived goods were located in 32 different locations around approx. 80 km around Nuremberg. One of the depots was in the castle Sandsee (now district Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen). There were 137 boxes with late-medieval documents. Immediately after the end of the war, this depot was plundered, more than 70 parchment certificates disappeared. Already in 1987 and 1991, a total of 20 missing documents came from the USA back to Nuremberg. With the new return of two documents, the hope is that further missing pieces will find their way back to the State Archive Nuremberg. Submitted on: 15.01.2020 Related files: Pressemitteilung
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