Stadtarchiv Stralsund

The City Archives Stralsund is a scientific archive of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund, which has an extensive collection of documents, photographs, maps, plans and books. The City Archives is located in the former convent of the Franciscans, the St. John's Abbey in Schillstraße.

Stock

The archive keeps everything archival value records on behalf of the city administration. Only at the end of the 18th century, however, the contents of the archives were arranged. Previously, the records, books and Others archival were only incorporated, but has not been detected. The General Counsel Gregory Langemak was the first, which began with the order of the existing documents 1714. 1919 Dr. Fritz Adler was appointed archivist. Since 1952, the archive is filled with full-time academic staff. After the Second World War premises were purchased in Badenstraße to go to a house the archival materials that had been outsourced during the war, and for other employees to make room for their sightings and scientific work. From 1964 on the premises of the former monastery were under the direction of Prof. Dr. Herbert Ewe, which should be a freeman of the city later expanded.

The archive is one of the largest of its kind in Germany. Especially extensive documents from the Middle Ages to make it interesting for the study of the history of the Hanseatic League.

The seven city books of the city of Stralsund are all in place since 1270, but citizens books since the year 1319th Among the major stocks are without doubt the Memorandum of Stralsund on 31 October 1234, and the two documents the Peace of Stralsund on 24 May 1370, the oldest city Chronicle from the 15th century and the contract with Sweden from 1628, who founded the almost two hundred years as part of the Kingdom of Stralsund.

In 2004, the oldest papierne certificate of Denmark was discovered in the archive. Other treasures are, inter alia, the made ​​by an unknown artist 1611-1615 Stralsund illuminated manuscript with the representations for all vorpommerscher cities, 9,000 documents, more than 100,000 books ( the oldest dating from the 13th century), woodblock prints from the 15th century, seal, the Codex Stralesundensis ( a manuscript from the 15th century ) and the collection of Count Axel von lions.

Library

The archive library has an unusually large total stock of about 100,000 volumes, of which make up the historic holdings, including 80 incunabula, about 75%. It includes the former council library, which in turn in the 16th century as a result of the Reformation from one of the mayors Franz Wessel ( 1487-1570 ) and Nicholas Gentzkow ( 1502-1576 ), organized collection of books emerged and had been continually expanded until the early 20th century, as well as a number of valuable private libraries, which were purchased mainly in the 19th century, and numerous historic school programs. In 1937 a division of the Library, which is responsible for the old stock was transferred to the City Archives, while the city library Stralsund was responsible for the new literature. In 1945 the high school library also in the custody of the City Archives.

Mold and Cultural sale

The archive was closed on 17 October 2012 for the public; as the basic mold was specified. The mold had become known, after the city had made ​​a sale of part inventory of the former high school library to a bookseller in June 2012. The buyer had informed the city about the poor condition of the volumes.

The scope of the sale was initially unclear, the buyer is unknown. The archivist and historian Klaus Graf made ​​the sale public and criticized him sharply. On October 30, 2012, the press spokesman for the city confirmed that a bookseller had bought the high school library so far in the city archives Stralsund located. A committee of citizens have agreed to the sale in the non-public portion of a meeting. After the public agenda this happened at the meeting of the Main Committee of citizenship on June 5, 2012. The significant existing portfolio of high-school library of the high school Stralsund belonged to kept in the city archives archives since 1945 and archival contained valuable Pomeranica, in particular the spiritual life in Stralsund Vorpommern reflected since the Reformation. The sale of the 5926 volumes dissolved in the art, for example in case of Harald Müller and Eric W. Steinhauer, strong displeasure.

On November 12, Mayor Dr. Badrow asked the buyer to take for verification of the sale until further notice of the continuation of the sales ratio. This secured the buyer directly. On 14 November 2012, the Ostsee-Zeitung reported that the bookseller had stopped the sale.

By mid- November of 2000 people had signed an online petition Save Stralsund archive library.

On November 20, 2012, the opinion of the historian Nigel F. Palmer and Jürgen Wolf was released for sale to the high school library. As a result of this opinion, the Hanseatic city of Stralsund 's efforts to rescind the sale and restoration of the shattered collection. The head of the City Archives, Regina Nehmzow, was suspended after the public announcement of the mold infestation, or the sale. After an earlier, unauthorized sales of 1,000 books came to light, the Hanseatic city of Stralsund refunded on December 4, 2012 ad against Nehmzow and terminated the employment contract without notice.

From the 2012 sold 5926 books 5278 books could be bought back by the antiquarian. More 63 volumes of the city were returned or purchased from the open market. There are missing as of February 2014 further 585 volumes, of which at least three were offered by a New York antique dealer. This alone exceeded the required for a three- volume edition of the works of Johannes Kepler price equivalent to 181,000 euros the proceeds from the city for all volumes almost doubled. In the meantime, offered the antiquarian of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund, the output at the price at which he had acquired it.

Publications

In the series " Publications from the City Archives ' findings of scientists are published.