15.07-23.12.2021: 100 years Bavarian Main State Archive - 100 years of memory of the Free State of Bavaria
The Bavarian State Archive invites you to a virtual tour through its building and a view into its magazines. Access is conveniently possible via any mobile terminal or 3-D with a VR glasses: https://vr-easy.com/tour/publicarchivebayerns/210706-Bayerischeshauptstaatarchiv/ The Bavarian State Archive celebrates its 100th anniversary on 16 July 2021. Birthday and can present a proud record. 100 years and still in growth. 100 years and compared to the age of the preserved archives – the oldest document dates back to 794 (↗ Digitalisat St. Emmeram Urk. 1) – just ungrowing the infancy. 100 years and with the archiving of digital documents before the great challenge of keeping this information readable and comprehensible for generations. At the beginning of 2021, the Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv was responsible for 813.362.069 digital information objects in the Digital Archive of the Free State of Bavaria, tending strongly increasing. In addition, there are 4 million analogue archiving units that bridge the distance between Munich and the Tegernsee or to Rosenheim (55 lfd km) and every year the route from the Feldherrnhalle to the Siegestor comes new to paper tradition. Employees are not only responsible for securing the digital and analogue transmission of the Free State of Bavaria: annually, they answer more than 5000 written and approximately the same number of oral requests from citizens and authorities. On the occasion of the 100. Art Minister Bernd Sibler stressed: “The Bavarian State Archive is a flagship of our cultural state: It is not only the largest of the state archives in Bavaria, but also one of the most important archives in the German language area and beyond. As a citizen archive and child of democratic Bavaria, it is open to legal seekers, home and family researchers and is a guarantee of the rule of law and transparency. Due to its far-reaching stocks, it is also a focal point for scientific researchers from close and far. Here we can meet our past, trace our history back to the early Middle Ages and become aware of our common roots with our neighbouring countries. The main state archive is the central memory institution of the Free State of Bavaria. ‘ Before 16th. July 1921 and the regulation which established the Bavarian Main State Archives, there were central government archives in Bavaria. The history of these predecessor institutions dates back to the late Middle Ages. The oldest known directory from the archives of the Duchy of Bavaria-Munich dates back to 1438. With the foundation of the Bavarian Main State Archive, a central archive was created in Bavaria for the first time in a modern sense. The four state archive facilities in Munich were merged into an institution as departments: General Reichsarchiv, Secret State Archive, Secret House Archive and District Archive Munich. Writings of Bavarian authorities and courts, important documents on foreign affairs and even the archives of the royal house of Wittelsbacher, which reigned until 1918, were now united organizationally under one roof. However, until the spatial assembly of the individual departments, it took another 55 years. Only after the Second World War the Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv got its own building complex at the Ludwig and/or Schönfeldstraße with modern magazine construction. The construction of the Bavarian Main State Archive marks a fundamental change in the archival self-image. As a new guiding principle in the formation and demarcation of stocks, the principle of provenance prevailed, i.e. the preservation of the original context of origin, in contrast to the reorganization according to content (pertinencies). At the same time, the archives opened up beyond scientific research for home and family research and thus for all citizens. From the Treasury of the Kingdom of Bavaria, a memory and research institution committed to the rule of law and transparency becomes of international importance in the democratic free state. A considerable gap in the stock profile of the Bavarian Main State Archive was created in 1946 with the integration of the Bavarian War Archives closed. After the fall of the German Reich in the Second World War, the documents of the Bavarian army came back to the Free State of Bavaria and in logical consequence to the Bavarian Main State Archive. In 1977 a separate Collection department, such as leaflets and posters or photos, for estates as well as association and association articles. Since 2007, the Sudeten German Archive, as “Archiv im Archiv” and beyond the Bavarian borders, has also been responsible for the preservation of the heritage of the displaced persons from the southern German territories. The Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv is also an important parliamentary archive. Although the Bayerische Landtag maintains its own archive for its archived documents after 1945. The documents of the Bavarian parliamentary bodies of the monarchy and the interwar period are located in the Bavarian Main State Archive (↗ Digitalisat Constitution 1818). In addition, the documents of the second Chamber of Parliament, the Bavarian Senate, which was dissolved at 31 December 1999, are included. The exhibition “100 Years Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv” is located in the main building, stairwell, Schönfeldstr. 5, 80539 Munich, from 15 July to 29 October, extended until 23 December 2021. The entrance is free. Opening hours: Mo–Do 8.30–16.00, Fr 8.30–13.30. The Protection and hygiene concept of the Bavarian State Archives, among others, carrying a FFP2 mask throughout the building is mandatory for visitors. Current information http://www.gda.bayern.de or 089/28638-2596. The exhibition will be published small catalogue: 100 years Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv. Conception and editing: Bernhard Grau u.a. (Staatliche Archive Bayerns - Kleine Exhibitions 66), Munich 2021, ISBN 978-3-938831-75-5, 160 S., zahlr sw-Abb., 6,00 Euro ↗ SZ article on the anniversary: "The memory of Bavaria". Posted on 6. July 2021, last added on 25.10.2021
