26.09.2024: Presentation of the archive inventory “Staatsarchiv Coburg. Imperial Chamber Court (Bayerische Archivinventare 60)’

The Reichskammergericht (1495–1806) was, in addition to and in competition with the Reichshofrat (1498/1527–1806), one of the two highest dishes in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. The process files were managed by the German Confederation in Wetzlar and around the middle of the 19. After the separation criteria developed at the time were distributed to the German states. In 1853, the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha Reichskammergerichtsakten, which remained in Gotha for the smaller part, also received a majority vote in Coburg. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday 26th. September 2024, at 17.00, the archive inventory “Staatsarchiv Coburg. Reichskammergericht (Bayerische Archivinventare 60)” to present to the public in the state archive Coburg, Herrgasse 11 in 96450 Coburg. You are invited to the book presentation! The tradition of the Reich Chamber Court over 77,000 files, distributed in 48 archives in Germany and abroad, is one of the most extensive and important archival sources of early modern times. In particular, the evidence submitted in the course of the process management provides clear insights into the life world of previous centuries. Because the court records are of high value for legal and Reich history, but also for national, economic and social history, the German Research Foundation started the long-term project “Inventory of the files of the Reich Chamber Court” at the end of the 1970s: Essentially, the content of each process is briefly described according to uniform specifications and is developed via registers. This project is completed, although not all inventory is fully under pressure. Important income also provides the development of the files of the Reichshofrats, which are predominantly located in the Haus-, Hof- and Staatsarchiv in Vienna. The Inventory Band for State Archive Coburg includes 76 Reichskammergerichtsakten. Most of the Coburg processes are due to the reign of Duke Johann Casimir of Saxony-Coburg (1564–1633). The further Reich Chamber Court tradition, concerning Bavaria in its current borders, is completely located in the Bavarian Main State Archive in Munich. Starting and contact points for research on jurisdiction at Reichsebene in the period from 1500 to 1800 are the Gesellschaft für Reichskammergerichtsforschung and the associated research center in Wetzlar as well as the network of Reichsgerichtsbaren. For your reporting or review, you can receive an inventory book free of charge. Manfred Hörner (Bearb.), [Promotion by Bernhard Grau; Introduction by Alexander Wolz and Manfred Hörner], Staatsarchiv Coburg. Reichskammergericht (Bayerische Archivinventare 60), Munich 2023 (ISBN 978-3-910837-00-3), XIX and 182 pages; Book retail price 17,00 Euro Further information here. The inventory volume is available in the book trade. Created on 26.9.2024

22.02.2021: Who was Anastasia Anderson Manahan really?

Anastasia Anderson Manahan gained worldwide attention with her multi-filmed life history. The story of the young woman who allegedly escaped the shooting command of the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution as the only member of the tsar family and then hoped for general recognition in vain contained all elements of a modern tragedy. With the help of a DNA analysis on the mortal remnants of the Russian Zaren family, it was clear in 2007 that the youngest Zaren daughter was murdered together with her family. This proved that Anastasia Anderson Manahan was not the great-fearer Anastasia of Russia. For many years, friends and Plenipotentiaries from Anastasia Anderson Manahan's closest environment gathered written documents of all kinds that should prove that Anastasia was actually the daughter of the last Russian pair of fences. Thus, the so-called “Anastasia Archive”, which has now been handed over to the Bavarian Main State Archive for archiving. In addition to letters and correspondences with their supporters (many of them from high aristocratic circles), there are business documents that regulate the publishing and film marketing of their history. In addition, there are process documents and legal correspondences that document the struggle for recognition and the related legal claims over several decades. Insight into the personality structure of Anastasias give not least the wills written by her. In addition, the archive holds a variety of memories and testimony that should serve as evidence of the identity of Anastasia. With the acquisition of the estate of Anastasia Anderson-Manahan to the Bavarian Main State Archive, these documents find their final location in Bavaria, not far from Seeon in the district of Traunstein, where after their death on 12. February 1984 on the Orthodox part of the cemetery. She died in Charlottesville in the USA. The gravestone bears the years of life “1901-1984”, the name “Anastasia Manahan” in Latin and additionally the first name Anastasia in Cyrillic script. Also on the Seeoner cemetery are the tombs of relatives from the house of the dukes of Leuchtenberg. These were particularly closely connected to the Romanov's home after their origin and identity and initially acted as Anastasia's most important advocate. The Family archive Leuchtenberg has been stored in the Bavarian Main State Archive for many years.

04.07.2019: Digital cultural mediation – “Small archival studies” unlocked by the state archives of Bavaria - online presentation of 100,000 digitized archives with a total of 3.5 million images on the homepage

As a new e-learning module on the homepage of the Bavarian State Archives, the 4th July 2019 at 10.00 a.m. the “Small Archives” presented and unlocked (https://www.gda. bayern.de/service/archivalienkunde/). The module Prof. Dr. Joachim Wild, Director of the Main State Archive a.D., has worked out the subject “Archival Studies” for 30 years at the Bavarian Archive School, the central educational institution for archivists in Bavaria. Currently, the state archives of Bavaria store well 47 million originals from 777 to today. If you put all archives together, you could easily bridge the distance from Munich to Nuremberg. About the homepage and the finder database (https://www.gda.bayern.de/service/finding agent database/) are currently 100,000 archives Digitalisate available. Since most archives comprise several pages, this results in the fair number 3.5 million available images. These quantities already make it clear that any form of digital access to archives will always be a part of the written tradition of Bavaria. The focus is on the state archives of Bavaria, therefore, the digital collection of directories and development information. This information is not only available through the homepage, but is also fed via interfaces into important portals such as the Archive Portal D and from there into the EUROPEANA. Another focus is the digitization of audiovisual archives. Due to the shortevity of storage media such as film, video and CD, the total loss of information threatens here. Added to this is the digitization of selected backbone stocks and the provision of e-learning modules, which allow all groups of persons to familiarize themselves with archived goods and research them in the archive. With the “Small archival studies” want to offer the Bavarian State Archives a quick entry into the archival source. All archival genres to be found in state archives are presented with an explanatory text and an illustration: from medieval documents, files and official books, posters, leaflets, photographs to digital documents. The new offer complements the already existing areas of “School Discover Archive” (https://www.gda.bayern.de/service/school-entdecke-archive orhttps://www.gda.bayern.de/kulturerbejahr) and Digital Writing (https://www.gda.bayern.de/DigitalPublicity/). The ‘Digital font’ is a training platform for deciphering German and Latin manuscripts. Documents were handwritten for many centuries. Learning older fonts is therefore often the only way to use original sources. Automated text recognition also quickly reaches its limits in handwritten documents. To European Year of Culture 2018 the module Discover Schools Archive: using concrete examples from the Middle Ages to the 20th century Century students are brought to historical traditions, to sources and thus to archives. The thematic blocks or individual presented archives can be integrated into school classes and are assistance and guidance for their own research. As archives, unlike libraries and museums, are not known to everyone, the tasks of the archives, their responsibilities, their use and the archivist profession are also presented. It is a goal of the state archives of Bavaria, pupils and students to inspire archives and the cultural property stored there. Important building blocks on this path are the development of digital offers, research from the local PC and cooperation with schools, universities and other educational institutions. With the Universities Passau (Master's degree program "Historical Sciences") and Regensburg (“Public History and Cultural Education”) archivists want to generate added value and build networks directly with research. After prior registration, the state archives offer housekeeping. History is to be made tangible and, above all, pupils of historical tradition are to be brought forward. The exhibitions presented in the context of historical-political educational work are gradually complemented by archive educational materials that are provided online. Both for schools and for research institutions there is an offer to carry out teaching units in the state archives. In addition to knowing the institution archive, there is the possibility to work with source material. Archivists support the selection of suitable sources. Contact persons are available in each of the state archives. Submitted on: 04.07.2019

20.07.2020-30.12.2020: "100 Years of Coburg near Bayern"

The exhibition shows what development the Coburger Land took during its belonging to Bavaria. First stations are dedicated to the period of the Weimar Republic and National Socialism. One focus is on the period after World War II. Although the inner German border is clamped on three sides, Coburg developed positively after 1945. Agriculture and industry modernized, tourism and large construction projects changed the cityscape. Through the municipal territorial reform and the regular celebrations to merge with Bavaria, Coburg continued to grow into Bavaria. Finally, the German unit changed the political map fundamentally in 1989/90 and opened a number of new possibilities for Coburg. The exhibition in Exhibition room “Backert3”, Rückertstraße 3, 96450 Coburg can be seen from 20 July to 30 December 2020. Price: Adults 4,00 €, reduced 2,00 € Opening hours: July to October: daily 11.00 to 16.00 From November: Tuesday to Sunday 11.00 to 16.00 Open on public holidays Closed on 24. December 2020 Guided tours for groups can be booked free of charge at Tel. 09561-4270711 and E-mail: alexander.wolz@staco.bayern.de or poststelle@staco.bayern.de The exhibition will be published small exhibition catalogue: 62: 100 years of Coburg near Bavaria. An exhibition of the State Archive Coburg, Coburg [20.7.-30.12.] 2020. Conception and editing: Alexander Wolz (Staatliche Archive Bayerns - Kleine Exhibitions 62), Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-938831-96-0, 92 pp., numerous sw-Abb. - € 6,00. In the exhibition space, the respective provisions of the current Infection Protection Regulation of the Bavarian State Government apply. Short-term changes regarding opening hours and exhibition visits are possible due to the pandemic.

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

09.11.2019: "Der Reichswald - Holz für Nürnberg und seine Dorf" - Exhibition at the Staatsarchiv Nürnberg

The State Archive Nuremberg shows from 9 November to 20 December 2019 the exhibition “The Nuremberg Reichswald – Wood for Nuremberg and its villages”. The exhibition was prepared by the State Archive Nuremberg together with the Franconian Freilandmuseum Bad Windsheim. Wood as an important and renewable raw material was already significant in the Middle Ages. 14th and 15th The city of Nuremberg secured the rights to the large forests around the city. Two “forest offices” were responsible for the administration, which controlled the wood consumption of the subjects. Not only the firewood cover was regulated, but also timber had to be applied. To save wood, more stone was used for building. The written delivery of the forest offices Lorenzi and Sebaldi in the state archive Nuremberg includes a total of 83 shelves. In the documents there are around 5,300 mostly coloured construction plans of farmhouses, stables and barns, fences, mills and furnaces from the 16th to the end of the 18th century. Century – a unique treasure in Germany. After several years of work, these files are now opened and all plans are digitized. The plans document the appearance and change of villages, mansions and mills in the “Old Landscape”. What is hidden from exciting stories behind the files of a rich city authority shows examples of black structures, unauthorized woodwork and the devastations of the Thirty Years War. In addition to files and the most beautiful plans, the exhibition features house models and typical woodworking tools from the collections of the Franconian Freeland Museum. The illustrated catalogue „The Reichswald – Wood for Nuremberg and its villages“ of the Franconian Freilandmuseum Bad Windsheim (2013) of 217 pages is available at the price of 13 €. The Reichswald – wood for Nuremberg and its villages Exhibition from 9 November to 20 December 2019 open each Wednesday to Saturday, 13 am to 6 pm Free admission Address: Staatsarchiv Nürnberg / Archivstraße 17 (near Friedrich-Ebert-Platz) / 90408 Nürnberg Email: poststelle@stanu.bayern.de / Phone: (0911) 93519-10 Submitted on: 09.11.2019   Related Files: Pressemitteilung

National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) complete

The NFDI represents an innovation in the German science landscape and aims to build a digital, regionally distributed and networked knowledge storage. It is intended to systematically develop valuable research data, which are often stored decentralized, project-like and temporary, as well as to make it readable, available and usable in the long term. It is composed of consortia in which different institutions of the respective research field cooperate, including infrastructure facilities such as the Bavarian State Archives. A knowledge store like the NFDI is the basis for attracting the world's best scientists. For the development and promotion of NFDI, the federal government and countries from 2019 to 2028 annually represent up to 90 million. Euro ready for final expansion, of which the federal government bears 90 percent, 10 percent bear the countries. Since 2020, the state archives of Bavaria are partners of the NFDI4Earth and the NFDI4Biodiversity. In November 2022, the Joint Science Conference (GWK) has incorporated eight other consortia into the federal state funding of the NFDI. The decision was based on a recommendation from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The following consortia will be funded from March 2023: • NFDI4Memory - Consortium for historically working humanities, • NFDI4Objects - research data infrastructure for the material legacy of human history, • NFDI4BIOIMAGE - National Research Data Infrastructure for Microscopy and Image Analysis, • NFDI4Energy - National Research Data Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Energy System Research, • NFDI4Immuno - National Research Data Infrastructure for Immunology, • FAIRagro - FAIRe data infrastructure for agrosystem research, • NFDIxCS - National Research Data Infrastructure for and with Computer Science, • Base4NFDI - basic services for the NFDI. The Federal Government and the Länder are convinced that the eight consortia of the third and thus the last round of funding will complement the 19 consortia selected in the previous rounds in a very good way. Further information www.nfdi.de and project and cooperation/running projects

26.06.2019: "Should and atonement? National Socialism in Court" - Exhibition at the State Archive Coburg

After the Second World War with more than 50 million dead, the question of the responsibility, for the guilt and atonement of the crimes committed by the Nazis, was raised. In addition to the allied war criminal processes in Nuremberg, the Americans led the twelve Nuremberg follow-up processes as well as the Dachauer war criminal processes to punish criminal organisations as well as perpetrator groups and individual workers. Since the end of 1945 the German courts were allowed to speak right again and since 1950 they had so far-reaching competencies in order to be able to judge war crimes. In addition, investigative authorities and courts have now been able to clarify and judge crimes with a national-socialist background. The exhibition at the State Archive Munich provides an insight into the procedures and introduces some processes that stand out from the mass of criminal proceedings. A large section of the exhibition is dedicated to crimes in concentration camps. The legal work-up of Dachau was exclusively within the jurisdiction of the prosecutor's office Munich II, to the Passau outer camps of the concentration camp Mauthausen determined the prosecutor's office Passau. A further section examines the legal work-up of the Nazi violent acts by the Coburg prosecutor's office, as in the Coburger area. The exhibition at the State Archive Coburg (Herrngasse 11) is from 26. June to August 2, 2019 to see. Admission is free. Opening hours: Mo–Do: 8.00–16.00 h, Fr: 8.00–13.30 h A catalogue is available for the exhibition: Small exhibitions No. 40: Guilty and atonement? To prosecute the NS crimes by Upper Bavarian judicial authorities on the basis of the transfer to the State Archive Munich. An exhibition of the State Archive Munich. 6.5.-20.6.2014. Conception and editing: Christoph Bachmann and Robert Bierschneider, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-938831-43-4 - € 5.00, 140 pages in text. Download Posted on 26.06.2019

Revolution and Räterepubliken in Bavaria 1918/19

100. Birthday of the Free State presented bavaricon the exciting and dramatic history of its beginnings in a virtual exhibition. Five chronological sections and a level of deepening bring you closer to the Revolutionary Years 1918/19. The focus is on the events in the capital Munich, which were decisive for all Bavaria. In addition, the various developments are included in ten other locations of Altbayerns, Frankens and Schwabens. 90 high-calibre exhibits from archives, libraries and museums show you the decisive changes and changes of this time – with all their breakthrough achievements, but also the problematic accompanying phenomena and consequences. Here you can visit the virtual exhibition!