Amendment to the Bavarian Archives Act

14.10.2019: Establishing an emergency network of Bamberger Archives, Libraries and Museums

Director-General of the State Archives, Dr. Margit Ksoll-Marcon, Mayor of the City of Bamberg, Mr Andreas Starke, General Vicar of the Archdiocese of Bamberg, Monsignore Georg Kestel, President of the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, Prof. Dr. habil. Godehard Ruppert, and the head of the Bamberg State Library, Ms. Library Director Prof. Dr. Bettina Wagner, signed on 14. October 2019 in the City Archive Bamberg the agreement for mutual support of Bamberger Archives, Libraries and Museums in emergencies (“Notfallverbund Bamberg”). The agreement includes: joint trainings and exercises, the preparation and exchange of emergency plans, and the permanent exchange of those responsible with each other and with external partners such as the fire department and the technical aid. 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 Bamberg emergency association, established by the signing of this agreement, expressly invites the representatives of other cultural institutions in the Bamberg city area to cooperate in the future. Further information on the work of emergency associations in Germany can be found at: http://notfallverbund.de/ On. 14.10.2019   Related files: Joint press release on the Bamberg emergency network

07.03.2020: History of the Post in the Oberpfalz - Tag der Archive im Staatsarchiv Amberg am 7. March 2020

On the first weekend of March the 10th will be German. Tag Archives organized. This year he is entitled “Communication: From the Depesche to the Tweet”. Several hundred archives in Germany open the doors to their treasury chambers and show their work with historical documents. Lectures on the history of the post in the Oberpfalz (10-13) Welcome (Dr. Maria Rita Sagstetter, State Archive Amberg) The post in the Oberpfalz. Formation - Structures – Formation (Dr. Martin Dallmeier, Regensburg) Stocks on post history in the Amberg State Archive (Dr. Till Strobel, Amberg State Archive) Introduction to Exhibition “History of Post in the Upper Palatinate in 19th and 20th Century’ (Jochen Rösel M.A., Staatsarchiv Amberg) Guided tour of the Amberg State Archive (13 – 2 pm) Participation in the leadership is also possible regardless of the attendance of the lectures. Exhibition It is also possible to: Exhibition “History of Post in the Upper Palatinate in 19th and 20th Century‘ are visited. This is also the 09.03. to 09.04.2020 open during the opening hours of the State Archive. Submitted at: 06.02.2020

24.09.2020: "Fabrikkinderarbeit in Bayern im 19. Jahrhundert" - Lehrausstellung im Bayerischer Hauptstaatsarchiv

On the occasion of World Children's Day will be on Tuesday, 24. September 2019, the small exhibition "Fabrikkinderarbeit in Bayern" in the Bavarian Main State Archive in 19th Century’ open. The exhibition was opened in the course of training in the preparation service 2017/2020 for the entry into the 3rd Education and Science, specialized in archives, at the University of Applied Sciences in Bavaria. Employment of under 14-year-olds in Bavaria totaled 19. A century of reality, such as crafts and services, but above all in agriculture. Since the beginning of industrialization, children have also been employed as cheap workers in factories, including bricks. The exhibition highlights this chapter of Bavarian economic and social history among the questions: What sources give information about factory child labour in Bavaria? How high was the number of children employed in Bavarian factories? In which regions, cities and industries were children used in factories? What were typical activities, how were working hours and working conditions? What were health consequences of factory child labour? How did you try to arrange work and schooling? What reward did children receive for their work? How did the state and politics and various social groups such as parents, employers, doctors, educators and churches judge the factory work of children? The exhibits are exhibited chronologically – the first section extends from the 1830s, when the first factories were created in Bavaria, until the foundation of the German Reich, and the second section focuses on the time after the foundation of the Reich. This division corresponds to legal competence: Until 1870, the Kingdom of Bavaria was able to regulate child labour independently on its territory, after which laws and regulations of the German Reich were applied in Bavaria. In principle, the employment of children in factories was 19. century the first and only form of child labour, which was gradually regulated and restricted by the state. This did not mean a ban. In 1903, the German Reichstag passed a general Children's Protection Act, of which agricultural child labour was excluded. In general, child labour in the Federal Republic of Germany was prohibited only by the Youth Employment Protection Act of 1960. The exhibition is from 24 September to 11 November 2019 (extension) 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. (closed on weekends and legal holidays) Free admission. Guided tours for groups can be agreed under (089) 28638-2575. Further information at www.gda.bayern.de (also press images in higher resolution). Posted on: 24.09.2019   Associated files: Press release

01.07.2021: Change of office in the Bamberg State Archive

With effect from 1. July 2021 Archive Director Dr. Klaus Rupprecht is appointed Head of the Bamberg State Archives. He follows archive director Dr. Christian Kruse, who moved to the State Archive Nuremberg as head of May 1, 2021. Dr. Christian Kruse led the Bamberg State Archive from 1 December 2018 to 30 April 2021. He studied history and German at the universities of Erlangen and Vienna for the Magisterium at Gymnasium and received his doctorate in Erlangen with a work on “Franz Friedrich Anton von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld 1750–1806”. After training as a scientific archivist at the Bavarian Archive School in 1988 to 1991, he worked in the Bavarian Main State Archives, in the State Archives Augsburg, Nuremberg and Munich and from 2008 to 2018 in the Directorate-General of the State Archives of Bavaria. Dr. Klaus Rupprecht, a native of Upper Franconia, studied history, anglistics and social studies at the University of Bamberg for the Teaching Office of Gymnasium. He received his doctorate with a dissertation on the topic of “Ritterisches Fürstentruung in Franken. The history of Guttenberg in the late Middle Ages and at the beginning of the early modern period”. After his lecture on the scientific archivist at the Bavarian Archive School in 1993 to 1996, Klaus Rupprecht worked in the Bavarian Main State Archive in Munich, came to the Bamberg State Archives in 1997, where he was Deputy Head and Speaker for Disclosure and Stock Issues since 2000. He has been head of the state archive Würzburg since 1 November 2016. With his appointment to the head of the Bamberg State Archives, he returns to his roots. In recent years, the Bamberg State Archive has been able to inaugurate and obtain an additional, modern magazine construction. In the next few years, public relations and public relations will be a special focus. It is also considered particularly important to strengthen the significance of the Bamberg State Archive as a centre of regional historical research. In this respect, cooperation with the Upper Franconian universities, cultural institutions and historical associations is sought. The Bamberg State Archives retains around 2.6 million archives in the amount of 26.3 lfd. km (as at the end of 2020). It is responsible for the transfer of all state authorities, courts and prosecutors of the middle and lower level in the administrative district of Oberfranken, but without those based in county and circular city of Coburg (the State Archive Coburg is responsible for this). For the time before 19. The State Archives delivers the documents, official books, files and plans of the Hochstift and Domkapitels Bamberg as well as of the Bamberg monasteries and pens, the archives of the Markgraftum Brandenburg-Kulmbach-Bayreuth, the Franconian Empire and the rich Knights cantons Gebürg and Steigerwald. In addition, numerous nationally important nobility archives (e.g. Counts of Giech, Freelors of Guttenberg) as well as important personal estates and collections belong to the main areas of tradition. Posted on 29. June 2021

13.03.2020: ‘Handwritten!? Messages in the pre-electronic age”

On the first weekend of March the 10th will be German. Tag Archives organized. This year he is entitled “Communication: From the Depesche to the Tweet”. Several hundred archives in Germany open their doors and provide insights into their work with historical documents. The State Archive Landshut participates in the following working days. In two “Feierabend tours” will be on Monday, 9th and Tuesday, 10th. March at 16.00 am the state archive Landshut presents the diverse tasks of the state archive Landshut. Following this, there is the possibility to visit the distinctive new building of the state archive at the Schlachthofstraße, which was only purchased in 2016. In addition to this, visitors can small exhibition “Handwritten!? Messages in the pre-electronic age” some selected originals on the topic “Communication” admiring. One focus is on the correspondence of and with Edmund Jörg, who was born in 19th. Century as an archival on the castle Trausnitz and its 200th. Birthday was celebrated a few months ago. In addition, private letters from persons from all social classes, from young nobles to prison occupants in Straubing, who are handed over to the state archives. Location: State Archive Landshut, Schlachthofstraße 10, 84034 Landshut Time: Monday, 9. March 2020, 4 pm Tuesday, 10. March 2020. 16.00 am Meeting point: Main entrance of the State Archive Landshut, Entrance Hall Special exhibition: “Handwritten? Messages in the pre-electronic age” of 2.-13. March 2020 opens at the opening hours of the State Archive for visitors (Mo, Di, Do 8.00-16.00, Mi 8.00-18.00, Fr 8.00-13.30 h). Free admission. Guided tours for groups can be agreed by phone or e-mail. Contact person: Dr Martin Rüth, Telephone: 0871/ 92328-0 or 0871/92328-21, E-mail: poststelle@stala.bayern.de Submitted at: 06.02.2020

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 modernized mine is explained in detail from the seam to the mountain neck. Archives and reproductions from the city archive Penzberg and the state archive Munich are shown. - accompanying exhibition is a leaflet available on this page under 'Family files' and HERE available for download. The exhibition is from 29. April to 1 October 2024. the City Archive Penzberg, City Hallpassage UG, Karlstraße 23 in 82377 Penzberg to see. Opening hours: Monday to Tuesday 9.00 - 12.00 and by telephone: 08856 - 813141. Admission is free. Cross identification: In 2013, a small exhibition of the Bavarian State Archives dealt with the work and housing construction for huts and miners of Bayerische Berg, Hütten- und Salzwerke AG. The accompanying booklet is available for download online: Home – stove – blast furnace. Industrial and residential construction for hut and mountain workers in Bavaria. An exhibition of the Bayerischer Hauptstaatsarchiv, 5.2-22.3.2013. Conception and editing: Renate Herget, 12 p., color illustration, no ISBN. Online finder for state mining: Bavarian State Archives: General and Salin Administration (GBS), Acts Bavarian State Archives: General Mines and Salin Administration (GBS), Personal Shares Bavarian State Archives: DGion BHS 1: Key facts Bavarian State Archives: GDion BHS KuPl 2: Maps and Plans up to 1927 (Submissions 2012/2014) Bavarian State Archives: Oberbergamt 1: Mining and mining, mine safety Bavarian State Archives: Oberbergamt 2: Individual mining companies Bavarian State Archives: Southern German mining account 1 In addition to the exhibition we show the YouTube channel Coal advertising film "The Kiss" of 1958. This was sent to the Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv via the Directorate-General for Mines, Iron and Salt Plants in 18 copies as a 35 mm film and was digitized in 2022. Posted on 30.4.2024

25-27.09.2024: »Future-ready? Data quality and data security in museum and archive«

This year, the EDV days are dedicated to the spectrum of data quality and data security in museum and archives. Successful development, preservation and research of cultural goods is only possible in the long term on the basis of high-quality specialist information, whose lasting protection can only be ensured by appropriate systems and strategies. Data quality and data security play an essential role in museum and archive work. On the one hand, in the case of the EDV days 2024, we illuminate specific possibilities for generating technically improved, deepening and thus future-oriented development data, for example by data qualification or the use of controlled vocabulary. On the other hand, the conference will focus on current challenges in the field of data security, which are becoming increasingly relevant in view of the digital transformation processes. Information security and data protection are also indispensable in museums and archives. Two practical workshops complete the programme. The lectures on Thursday and Friday will be held in parallel Livestream transfer. The workshops are excluded on Wednesday. The stream is freely accessible via the EDV tags website. When registering for the live stream, the link will be sent to you by email a few days before the event. Further information on the programme and the venue as well as the registration form can be found on Conference website. We look forward to your participation! Posted on 29.07.2024