21.06.2022: More clarity for research. Exchange of archives between the state archives of Bavaria and the archives of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
In the Directorate-General of the Bavarian State Archives, an important exchange of archives between the Bavarian State Archives and the Archives of the Munich Archdiocese and Freising was carried out yesterday. Director-General Dr. Margit Ksoll-Marcon and archive and library director Prof. Dr. Johannes Merz gave each other symbolically a total of 543 documents, volumes and files, which will be stored in an archive of the opposite side after they had entered the “false” archive by various historical circumstances. Such a exchange is a technically recognized but not very common approach in archives. Two closed file complexes were submitted to the State Archives from the archbishop archive: 1. Documents of the Foundation administration Wasserburg: The foundation administration is a state authority which, from 1807 to 1817, manages assets and accounts for all churches, brotherhoods and other ecclesiastical foundations in the former Pfleg and/or Landgericht Kling perceived. For this they were also available older series of church bills. In total, it is 146 mostly extensive volumes with invoices of the churches in the parishes of Eggstätt, Eiselfing, Evenhausen, Grünthal, Höslwang, Obing and Schnaitsee from 1700-1803, as well as 78 other volumes and files from 1672-1847. The documents were recovered in 1985 by the archdiocese archives of the parish church of Schnaitsee, where they had arrived on an unknown path. Two. Professors of the Zisterzienserkloster Kaisheim (near Donauwörth): The 96 documents from the period 1575-1727 were mostly written by the novices on parchment, which thus completed their entry into the convent community. At the secularization of the Bavarian monasteries in 1803, they were apparently not taken over by the state archives like the rest of the monastery archives and came to the archive of the archbishop by Deutinger (1789-1854) via the collection of the historically highly interested Munich Cathedral Propstes Martin von Deutinger. The documents submitted by the archive of the archdiocese will be stored in the respective competent state archives and there will be gaps in the tradition: the documents of the foundation administration in the state archive of Munich, the Kaisheimer Professkunde in the state archive of Augsburg. From the state side, a variety of individual items were handed over to the archbishop's archive. In the more detailed analysis of the stocks carried out in the Bavarian Main State Archive in recent years, in which the Freisinger Archivals in the 19th They have turned out to be part of spiritual administration. After the secularization of the Freising High Foundation in 1802, the separation between documents of the spiritual administration that remained with the Freising Diocese Administration and today form the altarpiece of the archbishop's archive, and those of the worldly government of the spiritual principality of Freising, which were taken over by the new landlord with the acquisition of its territories, was not always carried out cleanly, which is now corrected by the exchange of archives. 222 archivals of the spiritual government of the Diocese of Freising (officialate, Spiritual Council or Spiritual Government, Generalvikariat) from 1418-1802 went to the archives of the archdiocese with a very diverse subject. They concern, inter alia, synods, visitations, church court proceedings and monasteries in the diocesan area. The documents handed over to the archive of the archbishop will be incorporated into the corresponding directories in the near future, then scanned and provided online in the digital archive of the archbishop for use. The exchange now completed means a substantial simplification for research. He is also a further proof of the long-standing trusted cooperation between the state archives and the archives of the archbishop, which is shown in the participation of ecclesiastical archives in the training of state archivists and in the joint participation in scientific projects. Posted on 21.06.2022
