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Image1: Sanity Equipment for the Alpine Corps: Skid sledge for the transport of sick into the valley, Signature Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv 1015, Digitalisat-Aufnahme Nr. 78 [Click on picture: ↗Link to the digitalisat in the finder database].

Image1: Sanity Equipment for the Alpine Corps: Skid Sled for the transport of sick into the valley, Signature Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv 1015, Digitalisat-Aufnahme Nr. 78.

Figure 2: Aircraft driver with aerial camera at Monte Cristallo near Cortina d'Ampezzo (South Tyrol, Italy), 1915, Archive signature: BayHStA Alpenkorps 83, Digitalisat recording 27.

Figure 3: War diary 10.09.1916 - 08.01.1917 Transylvania, entry 21.12.1916, archive signature: BayHStA Alpenkorps 21, Digitalisat recording 129.

Figure 4: Aerial image of the Alpine Corps Pilot Section of Odobești Recording of 21.12.1916, Archive signature: BayHStA Alpenkorps 570, Digitalisat Recording 101.

Figure 1: Sanity equipment for the Alpine corps: Skid sledge for the transport of sick into the valley, archive signature: BayHStA Alpenkorps 1015, Digitalisat recording 78.

15.09.2022: Digitization program NEUSTART CULTURE - Alpenkorps

With its own digitalization project, the Bavarian State Archives participate in NEUSTART CULTURE>>, in which the German Digital Library is also supported. The collection “Alpenkorps” of the department IV (war archive) of the Bavarian Main State Archive was selected. Not only because the “Kommando des Alpenkorps” briefly resided in the premises used today by the departments III and V of the Bavarian Main State Archive in 1915, this inventory is of particular importance for the Bavarian military history.

In the spring of 2015, the Alpine Corps was the subject of a teaching exhibition by the Bavarian State Archives. The exhibition catalogue is ANNEX free of charge.

When it was set up on the occasion of the war in Italy in 1915, the Alpine Corps was a new special military unit, since until that time the German Empire had no troops for the mountain struggle. The unit belonged to several elite troops of the Empire, including the Bavarian Infantry Legacy Regiment. More than half of the units of the Alpine Corps consisted of Bavarian troops.Some later officers of the Wehrmacht, but also leading National Socialists sometimes belonged to the alpine corps. Examples are only Erwin Rommel, Heinz Guderian, Ferdinand Schörner or Franz Ritter von Epp. The unit, contrary to its name, was not only used on the “Alpenfront” but was also used on the western and eastern fronts, e.g. in the “Schacht bei Hermannstadt” in Romania in September 1916.

With the exception of a small number of documents that had to be reset by digitalization for conservation reasons, the entire inventory was digitized. It includes over 1840 files (about 42 running meters). A total of 307,655 images were produced. All areas of the corps are covered over the entire period of its existence. The following are mentioned by way of example: war diaries, chief shares, documents from departments Ia (Operative and Tactical) and Id (news officer), department III (field officer), the medical field (Korps doctor, Corps veterinarian) or also the area of postponement, stage and settlement.

Digitization was made possible by the German Digital Library within the framework of the "Restart Culture" programme funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM).

BKM: www.kulturstaatsministerin.de

NK: https://neustartkultur.de

DDB: https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/

You can find the digitized inventory of Alpenkorps in the online database of the Bavarian State Archives ANNEX

Link to the publication of the data at the DDB/Archivportal D:
Bayerischer Hauptstaatsarchiv, Alpenkorps>>

Published on 15.09.2022, supplemented on 19.12.2022

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BU 1: Selection of press clips (1959) (Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Sammlung Bayreuther Festspiele 96)

01.08.2022: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv acquires collection to the Bayreuth Festival

Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv acquires collection to the Bayreuth Festival Since its foundation by Richard Wagner in 1876, the Bayreuth Festival has been one of Bavaria's outstanding cultural events with international broadcasting. After laborious years of construction and a phase of ideological segregation by the National Socialists, a new beginning was achieved after World War II. The Bayreuth Festival has been attracting political and social prominence every year since 1951. The Bavarian State Archive has now been able to acquire an extensive private collection of the Bayreuth Festivals from the post-war period. For the post-war period, the collection stock formed from it and from existing material includes all the program books of the Festival, accompanying publications such as the “Festspiel Preview” and the “Festspiel News” and other printed material that often has rarity value. The press sections and photo albums contained are of particular importance. The photo albums not only combine the official role and stage photos, but also complement them with private recordings from the social environment and the inner circle of artistic actors. In addition to the national and partly international press, the press sections also take into account the rest of the German-speaking press. The media echo of the Bayreuth Festival is thus gathered in a number of times – from pre-reporting on current reviews and reports to review. In the cultural sector – unlike in politics – there are often few official sources and usually fewer private sources. In addition, discourses were often medial. Therefore, the delivery of press in the cultural sector is of particular quality. The dense delivery to press clips in the Bayreuth Festival Collection is therefore a special lucky case. The documents were collected by Willy Wesemann (1910–1985). The violinist was a member of the Festival Orchestra for decades and was therefore closely related to all artistic participants. As an enthusiastic collector, he took great effort. During the festive season, he referred to the most important press organs himself and advertised them for his collection, as well as photographed himself. All press cutouts were finely cut, provided with source information and stored clean. His whole family was involved in these works. His daughter Astrid Zimdahl-Wesemann has now left the collection of about three shelves to the Free State of Bavaria. The new “Bayreuth Festival Collection” complements the existing collections of the Bavarian Main State Archive with reference to the Bayreuth Festival. In addition to the state tradition mainly from the Ministry of Culture, this is mainly the two estates of Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner. In their time, both of them were decisive for the Bayreuth Festival and the opera world as a whole. The Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv is the central archive of the Free State of Bavaria and one of the largest archives in Germany. In addition to official documents, it also retains non-state archives. These include in particular estates of important personalities and collections.

Photo stock in Bavarian archives - an archive guide

The now available archive leader for photo stock in Bavarian archives has a long history of origin. About 15 years ago, in view of the continued growing interest in the photographic tradition, the idea had emerged to create a separate handbook of photo stock in these archives in a similar way to the "Handbuch der Bayerischen Archives", which was published in 2001. The image archive guide is now available for download as pdf. We wish you an exciting and fruitful research in the diverse photo stock of the Bavarian archives!

Dr. Christian Kruse, new head of the State Archive Nuremberg (Photographer: Agnes Zettel, State Archive Nuremberg) [JPG file].

28.10.2021: Presentation of Dr. Christian Kruse as new head of the State Archive Nuremberg

He has this task as of 1. May 2021, followed by Ltd. Archive Director Prof. Dr. Peter Fleischmann, who was appointed 31. January 2021 retired. Prof. Dr. Fleischmann led this State Archive Nuremberg since 1 December 2012 and returned to stations in the state archive Augsburg and the state archive Munich – in both state archives he had the lead inne – to the state archive in which his professional activity began after his training at the Bayerische Archivschule. Born in Kiel Dr. Christian Kruse, he studied history and German at the universities of Erlangen and Vienna for the Magisterium at Gymnasium. He received his doctorate in Erlangen with a doctorate on “Franz Friedrich Anton von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld 1750–1806”. He completed his lecture on the scientific archivist at the Bavarian Archive School in 1988 until 1991, after which he worked in the Bavarian Main State Archives, in the state archives of Augsburg, Nuremberg and Munich and from 2008 to 2018 in the General Department of the State Archives of Bavaria. From 1 December 2018 to 30 In April 2021 he led the Bamberg State Archive. The State Archive Nuremberg has great challenges to face: its headquarters at Nuremberg's Archivstraße 17 will be refurbished, the offices were opened in 2020 the Rollnerstraße 14, which outsources archives in four locations (external office Lichtenau bei Ansbach, Staatsarchiv Augsburg, Staatsarchiv Landshut, Landeskirchliches Archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria). The refurbishment of the State Archive Nuremberg – the first archive-purpose building of the Kingdom of Bavaria, built in 1880 – is expected to last until autumn 2026. The State Archive Nuremberg has approximately 8.2 million archives of 36.8 km in its storage. It is responsible for the transfer of all the authorities, courts and prosecutors of the middle and lower level in the Central Franconia government district. For the time before 19. century the State Archives handed over the documents, official books, acts and plans of the Principality of Brandenburg-Ansbach, the Reichsstadt Nuremberg, the Hochstift and Domkapitels Eichstätt, as well as the calibertic monasteries, the German Orders, smaller towns of empire, empire, aristocracy and a patriot. Posted on 28.10.2021

29.11.2019: 10 years Bavarian-Czech Archive Partnership - Festakt im Staatsarchiv Amberg

On 29 November 2019, the ten-year successful partnership of the Bavarian State Archives with Czech archives in the presence of the Minister of State for Science and Art, Bernd Sibler, MdL, and the Director of the Czech Archives Administration PhDr. Jiří Úlovec, celebrated and shared in the future. “A look into our archives reveals how closely Bavaria and the Czech Republic are connected: For centuries we have shared a common cross-border history. The close cooperation of our archives helps to make this valuable cultural heritage even more visible. At the same time, the archives set a clear sign for our partnership exchange and our good neighborhood. “The Bavarian Minister of State for Science and Art Bernd Sibler, MdL, said in his greeting. Ten years ago, the cooperation project “Bayerisch-Tschechisches Netzwerk digital history sources” established the firm cooperation of the Bavarian State Archives with the Pilsen District Archive. As part of the project funded by the European Union, historical sources of the Bavarian-Böhmic border area from Bavarian and Czech archives were digitized and virtually on the own bilingual presentation platform “Portafontium” on the Internet. (http://www.portafontium.de/) brought together. This common platform was significantly expanded with the Czech-Bayerische Archivführer (2013 to 2015). As a bilingual online database, the archive guide is a new access to Bohemica in Bavarian archives and Bavarica in Czech archives. The latest building of the Bavarian-Czech archive collaboration is the project “Modern access to historical sources”. Currently the Bavarica and Bohemica recorded in “Porta fontium” range from the early 11th. century to the recent past. Thus the Czech-Bavarian archival leader presents the tradition of an entire millennium. The oldest proven document dated 19th April 1010 King Henry II gives his share of customs to Passau and the entire Bohemian customs (Munich, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Hochstift Passau Documents 25/1). “Porta fontium” receives a module on historical maps and plans with its own search and display tool. German and Czech researchers working on home-historical, family-kund or scientific topics can provide an overview of archives and stocks in their mother tongue. Archive research can thus be prepared in a targeted manner at the local PC and planned for cross-border archive trips. Access to archives has become easier. By making the Bavarian and Czech archives experience the common history and encouraging their research, they make an important contribution to European integration. Related files: Pressemitteilung

King Sigismund forbids the cities of Augsburg and Ulm to trade with the city of Venice, second document. July 1418, State Archive Nuremberg, Reichsstadt Nuremberg, 7-coloured alphabet, certificates 596 (Photo: Staatliche Archive Bayerns).

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

25.07.2022: Agreement for Mutual Support of Würzburg Archives Signed in Emergency

Director-General of the State Archives, Dr. Margit Ksoll-Marcon, the General Vicar of the Diocese of Würzburg, Dr. Jürgen Vorndran, the Cultural and Tourist Office of the City of Würzburg, Mr Achim Könneke, the Head of the Archives of the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Dr. Marcus Holtz, signed on 25. July 2022 the agreement on mutual support for Würzburg archives in emergencies (“Notfallverbund Würzburg”). For the hopefully never-ending emergency, the institutions provide mutual support to bundle resources and to ensure faster and more effective recovery and initial supply of the affected archives, books and exhibits. For the institutions involved, the protection of the cultural goods they hold against fire, water, external violence or other unpredictable events is one of the most important tasks. The past has shown that the staff of the individual institutions are often overwhelmed without external assistance, which has shown impressively large disasters such as the Elbhochwasser 2002, the fire in the Weimar Anna-Amalia-Bibliothek 2004 or the collapse of the historical archive of the city of Cologne 2009. The Würzburg emergency association, established by the signing of this agreement, expressly invites the representatives of other cultural institutions in the Würzburg district to cooperate in the future. With the establishment of the emergency association Würzburg, the state archives of Bavaria have come a big step closer to their goal of establishing an emergency network at each archive location. Only the state archive Coburg is not yet integrated. Allies include Würzburg in Augsburg, Munich, Amberg-Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Bamberg, Nuremberg and Landshut. Further information on the work of emergency associations in Germany can be found at: http://notfallverbund.de/

Title of the basic tax cataster of the tax municipality of Gärmersdorf (Lkr. Amberg-Sulzbach), 1840

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 as cataster documents from the 19th century. Centuries give an insight into the tax assessment before the soil estimate. Hand-drawn cards from the 17th and 18th Century conveys an optical impression of landscapes in pre-industrial time. In addition to the documentation of the estimation results on paper, the modern digital mode of operation of the soil estimate is explained and the processing of the geodata in ALKIS as well as its evaluation possibilities via the Geoportal Bayern is demonstrated. This means that the floor estimate is not only placed in the larger frames of the history of the tax system, but also a sheet is beaten by the analogue to the digital geodata management. The implementation of the soil estimate is the task of the financial authorities which collect the results in estimation cards and estimation books and forward them to the survey management. This is responsible for the continuation of the digital data stock in ALKIS (Automatized Property Cataster Information System) and for the distribution of the data. The exhibition is from 22. January 2020 to 28 February 2020 in the State Archive Amberg, Archivstraße 3, 92224 Amberg (Input Weißenburger Straße) to see. Opening hours: Monday and Thursday 8:00 to 16:00, Tuesday and Wednesday 8:00 to 18:00, Friday 8:00 to 13:30 (Sa, So closed, Carnival Serviceag 25.2. open only until 12:00) Free admission. Guided tours for groups can be under 09621/307-911 or poststelle@staam.bayern.de to be agreed. Submitted on: 22.01.2020 Related files: Pressemitteilung

Poster to the Exhibition Naturschutz in Bayern

19.11.2019: "Naturschutz in Bayern vor 1979 - Actions and actors" - Lehrausstellung im Bayerischer Hauptstaatsarchiv

On Tuesday, 19 November 2019, the small exhibition "Naturschutz in Bayern" will be held in the Bavarian Main State Archive before 1979. Actions and actors’. The exhibition was opened in the course of training in the preparation service 2017/2020 for the entry into the 3rd Qualification level of the field of education and science, specialist focus on archives, at the University of Applied Sciences in Bavaria, elaborated by Andrea Kurzböck. Climate protection and environmental protection are currently dominated by public discussion, and nature conservation is rarely discussed. An exception is species protection, a core area of nature protection. Since 19. In addition to species protection, nature protectors are concerned with the protection of the landscape and individual natural monuments. Procedures, personnel structure and motivations of nature conservation have been subject to changes over time, but have always been diverse. State and non-governmental institutions demanded, appealed to reason and emotions, mobilized, threatened with punishment, rewarded but also exemplary action. Associations, associations, press and state authorities gathered and disseminated information. At the beginning, aesthetic and patriotic-conservative aspects were at the centre of the argumentation. Other motives were the protection of nature for scientific purposes and the recognition that the destruction of nature is burdening the economy in the long term. Ecological and social argumentation lines were added early on with the idea of sustainability. With 31 exhibits in 6 sections, the small exhibition shows some central ways of nature conservation until 1979. As a trader, it presents large institutions such as the Confederation of Nature Conservation and State Ministries as well as smaller associations and municipal institutions. In addition, she gives insights into the various motivations for nature conservation efforts. The time frame is derived from the re-establishment of an environmental party in Bavaria, which also committed to nature conservation in its programme and thus gave the discussion a new component at political level. The exhibition can be seen from 19 November 2019 until 10 January 2020 in the main building of the Bavarian Main State Archive (Treppenhaus, 1st OG), Schönfeldstraße 5, 80539 Munich. Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8.30–18.00 hrs., Friday 8.30–13.30 hrs. (Sa, So and from 23.12.2019 to 6.1.2020 closed) Free admission. Guided tours for groups can be agreed under (089) 28638-2575. Further information www.gda.bayern.de (press images can be requested in higher resolution). Online conditions for nature protection (selection): °C Bavarian State Archive, German Forest Protection Community °C Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Landesstelle für Naturschutz °C Bayerischer Hauptstaatsarchiv, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry: MELF 4 (Forstwesen) °C Bavarian State Archive, Ministry of Finance: MF 22 Forestry °C Bavarian State Archive, Ministry of Culture: MK 3/1 (with Digitalisat zum Exponat 1a: MK 14649) °C Staatsarchiv München, Bezirksamt/Landratsamt Laufen Related files: Pressemitteilung

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 to Polish students? The voltage fields of the first half of the 20. During the First World War, Poland in Bavaria was often mistrusted “Ausländer”, later forced laborers subjected to the Nazi regime without protection, or displaced persons without home after the war. Art and culture reflect the alternating Polish-Bavarian relations in the first half of the 20th. The most famous example is the Landshuter Wedding, which has been celebrated regularly since 1903 and which, although taking up a historical event, should attract foreign guests to Landshut. The Polish art and also the artist Veit Shock (1447/1448–1533) were subject to significant struggles, claiming Nuremberg and Krakow equally. In Bavarian archives and libraries, the versatile and diverse Bavarian-Polish relationship can be traced. The tradition of the Bavarian ministries stored in the Bavarian Main State Archives as well as the tradition of the sub- and central authorities and the courts in the state archives should be highlighted. Further documents can be found in ecclesiastical and university archives. For example, the small exhibition combines about 40 exhibits from the Bavarian Main State Archives, the State Archives Augsburg and Munich, the Archive of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, the City Archive Munich and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. The exhibition is from 21. January 2020 until 7 March 2020 in the main building of the Bavarian Main State Archive (Treppenhaus, 1st OG), Schönfeldstraße 5, 80539 Munich to see. Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8.30–18.00, Friday 8.30–13.30 (Sa, So and at the Carnival Serviceag 25.2.2020 closed; Special opening on the Tag Archives, Sa 7.3.2020) Free admission. Guided tours for groups can be agreed under (089) 28638-2575. Further information at www.gda.bayern.de (press images in higher resolution can be requested). To the exhibition a small Exhibition catalogue. Submitted on: 21.01.2020 Related files: Pressemitteilung Bild 3a: Reklamemarke mit Motiven der Landshuter Hochzeit, 1913, Privatbesitz (Foto: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv) Bild 3b: Reklamemarke mit Motiven der Landshuter Hochzeit, 1913, Privatbesitz (Fotos: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv). Bild 3d: Reklamemarke mit Motiven der Landshuter Hochzeit, 1913, Privatbesitz (Fotos: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv) Bild 3e: Reklamemarke mit Motiven der Landshuter Hochzeit, 1913, Privatbesitz (Foto: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv)