On Friday, 29th March 2019, the extension of the Bamberg State Archive (Hainstraße 39, 96047 Bamberg State Archives) was solemnly handed over to its destination after a construction period of two and a half years. At the ceremony, Mr. Minister of State for Science and Art Bernd Sibler, MdL, gave a greeting to Mrs. Minister of State for Health and Care Melanie Huml, MdL.
Minister of State Bernd Sibler stressed in advance: “The Bamberg State Archive houses a great cultural treasure. Enlargement can now bring together all stocks in one place. Valuable testimonies of our history reflect the monastery culture of the Middle Ages, the various territorial dominations and the border proximity of the region to the former GDR and the Czech Republic. In future, they will be kept under excellent conditions and made available to the public. This state-of-the-art archive offers us the best ways to deal with our history and identity. ‘
In August 2014, the then Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art issued the planning mandate for the expansion building. As part of a competition procedure, the 1st prize went to the architecture firm Peter W. Schmidt, Pforzheim. The first groundbreaking ceremony was held in October 2016, one year later the fair. The project management and construction management were located at the Bamberg State Building Office.
The expansion construction with a gross space content of 14.346 m3 realizes a useful area of 3469 m2 on a base area of just under 2000 m2, of which about 200 m2 for working and storage spaces, including a cleaning room with a microbiological safety work bench. In addition, the building contains thirteen magazine rooms and three small magazines for storing special materials, especially photographs that require a colder indoor climate. The extension consists of six bullets with windowless magazines. The basement is 53.8 m long and 24.9 m wide, the five projectiles above it are square with a side length of 24.4 m. Around 18.9 kilometres of archives can be stored. The construction costs were EUR 9.1 million.
With air conditioning (ventilation, heating, cooling, humidification and dehumidification) and a multilayer wall structure (from inside to outside: 25 cm reinforced concrete, 20 cm insulation, air, 8-10 cm colored concrete facade with sandstone appearance), a constant magazine climate with a temperature of 16 to 20 degrees Celsius and a relative humidity of 40 to 55 percent is to be created.
The State Archive Bamberg is the state authority for all questions of archives in the administrative district of Oberfranken with the exception of the circular town of Coburg and the district of Coburg, which belong to Bavaria only since the referendum of 1920. It currently retains around 26 kilometres of archives with an average annual increase of 300 metres. In the State Archive, historically and legally relevant material from the time of 815 is transferred to the present, which is secured, developed and provided for research.
During the festive event, the Exhibition „Staats Bau in Oberfranken – ein Skizze“ open. The exhibition is until 7 June 2019 to see (Mo, Do 8.00–16.00 h, Di, Mi 8.00–18.00 h, Fr 8.00–12.30 h), it appears a small Catalogue No:
- 59: State building in Oberfranken - a sketch. An exhibition of the state archive Bamberg on the occasion of the inauguration of the extension building, Bamberg, 29 March - 7th June 2019. Conception and editing: Christian Kruse, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-938831-89-2, 49 pages, sw-Abb., price 4.00 Euro
Posted on: 29.03.2019
