24.06.2024: Conference presentations: Original maintenance in practice – Prevention of damage and emergency in archives and libraries
In cooperation with the Coordination body for the preservation of written cultural goods (KEK) to the event "Originalerhalt in Practice - Damage and Emergency Prevention in Archives and Libraries" on Monday, 24. June 2024 invited to the Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv at 10 a.m. The occasion is the presentation of the band „Schäden an Archiv- und Bibliotheksgut sehen und klassifikation“ by Ann-Kathrin Eisenbach and Katrin Marth, which you will find here free download can. Participation in the event is free of charge, but registration for participation on site is necessary due to limited capacity. Please register with full name and specify your service until 19. June 2024 at poststelle@gda.bayern.de The program for the event can be found under 'Family files' or here download directly. The conference presentations on the event can be held at the Homepage under technical information - conservation or directly here will be downloaded: Dr. Katrin Marth, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv: From the creative description to usable information. Updating the damage disaster of the Bavarian State Archives Dr. Laura Scherr, Director-General of the Bavarian State Archives: Planning of conservation measures, remedying and preventing damage Dr. Ursula Hartwieg, coordinating body for the preservation of written cultural goods (KEK): Funding possibilities: The coordinating body for the preservation of the written cultural property (KEK) Ann-Kathrin Eisenbach M.A., M
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29.4-1.10.2024: The Penzberger Pechkohlenbergwerk. The last years of an era (1954/56–1966)
From 29. April 2024 is the small exhibition “The Penzberger Pechkohlenbergwerk. The last years of an era (1954/56–1966)” in the city archive Penzberg. The exhibition was developed as part of the current archiving training for the 3rd level of qualifications at the University of Applied Sciences in Bavaria (HföD). Looking back to the past, it is clear that the search for mineral raw materials has a long tradition. Mining is particularly important. The spectrum of raw materials obtained ranges from precious stones and uranium to salts and ores to coal. Coal is mainly used as fossil fuels. Even Oberbayern was not too long ago characterized by a certain type of coal: the pitch coal. This type of coal originated in the tertiary age. As a result of the folding of the Alps and the resulting tectonic stress due to pressure and temperature, the pitch coal solidified to such an extent that it clearly belongs to the brown coal, but optically resembles the coal. It was built in Bavaria in the Penzberg, Hausham, Peiting, Peißenberg and Marienstein mines. The exhibition takes a look at the depreciation of pitch coal in the Upper Bavarian small town of Penzberg in the district Weilheim-Schongau. The focus is on modernising the mine during the last years of operation. Despite the most modern technology, however, shutdown was no longer to be stopped – the pitch coal could not withstand the cheaper mineral oil as an energy carrier. The path of coal in the mod
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15.4.2024: New construction for the state archive Würzburg in Kitzingen
Bavaria’s building minister Christian Bernreiter, represented locally by Ministerial Director Ingrid Simet, expressed his congratulations: “Modern archival work requires modern spaces, because despite digitization, the storage of archived goods is indispensable. I am therefore pleased that the work is on the cost and timetable. ‘ Director-General of the State Archives, Dr. Bernhard Grau, expressed great joy in his greeting that the State Archive for Lower Franconia in Kitzingen receives an architecturally impressive service building that fully meets the high demands of modern archive construction. He stressed the importance of the new building for the historical tradition of Unterfranken and pointed out that the oldest document in state ownership will be preserved here in Kitzingen in future. Spatial engraving for the construction project was in May 2023, the completion of the building is planned for the end of 2025, the state archive is expected to commence its operation at the new site at the end of 2026. Press release of the Bavarian State Ministry for Housing, Construction and Transport >>> Created on 17.4.2024
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14.3.-4.4.2023: Cannon bells. Bell seizure and restoration in Bavaria 1917–1922
The 14th. March 2023 became the small exhibition “Glocken zu Kanonen. Bell seizure and restoration in Bavaria 1917–1922” opened in the Bavarian Main State Archive. The exhibition was developed as part of the current archiving training for the 3rd level of qualifications at the University of Applied Sciences in Bavaria (HföD). Bells have shaped our everyday life as a clock generator for centuries. In their ornamental and sound art, they testify not only to the worship of God and the saints, but also to the craftsmen of their founders. In the First World War, about one third of the Bavarian bells were crushed and melted to cover the metal requirements of the armaments industry. Despite these massive losses, the “Glockenland Bayern” succeeded better than other countries of the German Reich to preserve its bell stock as far as possible and in particular to preserve historical bells from destruction. The exhibition is dedicated to the processes and actors of bell events during the First World War in Bavaria. Finally, the question of state compensation or restoration of bells after the end of the war. The exhibits originate mainly from the collections of the Bavarian Main State Archives, the city archives Augsburg and Rosenheim have provided digitalisate. accompanying exhibition is a leaflet available on this page under 'Family files' and under https://www.gda.bayern.de/publikationen/lehrausstellungen-der-bayerischen-archivschule/ availabl
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