Two visitor places are available for our guests in the archive. Access to the archive and library is suitable for wheelchairs.

Overview of the holdings of the historical archive

Contents: regional government, imperial and regional parliaments, district affairs, regional and sovereign affairs, municipal constitution, personnel affairs, municipal and real estate ownership, regional taxes, municipal accounting and treasury, police administration, construction, trade, land and agricultural affairs, civil rights and homeland affairs, administration of justice, military and war affairs, church and school affairs, convent and legacies, poor and support affairs, insurance, registry office, family affairs, rifle company

Contents: Deeds (privileges, donations, consensuses, council confirmations, servants’ matters, church and school matters, religious court, loans taken out for the sovereign, promissory notes, capital matters, guild matters, letters of appointment, debt judgments, sales contracts, settlements), city and stock books, copybooks, general city matters, forensics, civic records, poor and support matters, collections, building matters, city councillors, council jurisdiction, brewing matters, dismembrations, shepherd’s rubble, field, land, boundary and pasture matters, land and land management, and pasture matters, fire and hail matters, border matters, medical matters, trade and guild matters, treasury matters, church and school matters, state matters, committee and district councils, high court matters, economic matters, military matters, citizen militia, gendarmerie, Mill, river and water matters, Upper and Lower Lake matters, Court of the Order (Royal Domain), police matters, litigation matters, statistical news, tax matters, wills, estates, elections, desolate places, insurance matters, registry office, family matters

Contents: Affairs of the German Reich, affairs of the city, border affairs, medals and decorations, civil servant and employee affairs, police affairs, citizenship, immigration and emigration, agricultural affairs, Luthersborn estate, forestry and fishing, separations, trade matters, building and settlement matters, road, water and bridge matters, military matters, mobilization, school and church matters, Jewish matters, art and culture, associations, club life, fire department, local history of the town, civil status, financial, tax and property matters

Contents: Interim archive

You can find out about the contents of the individual holdings in the Thuringia Archive Portal or consult the Findbuch on site.

Historical holdings of the municipalities of Waltersdorf and Scherndorf

Contents: police matters, trade, taxes, property matters, welfare, medical matters, treasury matters, church matters

Contents: statistics, property matters, police matters, treasury matters, taxes, trade, guild matters, building matters

Registry office registers: duration 1874-1973, volume 4.0 running meters

Contents: Birth announcements 1874-1898, Marriage announcements 1874-1927, Death announcements 1874-1973

Contents: Birth announcements 1874-1898, Marriage announcements 1874-1899, Death announcements 1874-1966

Certified copies of the documents can be made for genealogical purposes, heir tracing, etc. Personal inspection by researchers is not permitted for data protection reasons!

Collections inventory

Content before 1990: undeveloped,

Content after 1990: development of the town of Weißensee (culture, sport, politics, business)

Contents: Literature 1928-1964, photo albums, certificates etc.

Contents: Maps of the Weißensee and Sachsenburg districts, maps of the town and district of Weißensee

Contents:

Weißenseer Kreisblatt 1824-1826, 1829-1831, 1834, 1838, 1840-1849, 1851-1880; Weißenseer Zeitung1881-1933;

Weißenseer Kreiszeitung 1933-1941; Weißenseer Gauzeitung 1941-1944;

Thüringer Volk- Zeitung 1946-1948;

Thüringer Volk 1949;

Das Volk 1951-1954, 1989-1990

Contents:

Official Gazette of the Royal Government of Erfurt 1818-1831;

Official Gazette of the Prussian Government of Erfurt 1832-1836;

Official Notices of the County Council of Weißensee 1848-1950;

Official Notices of the County Council of Erfurt 1950-1952 (microfilm);

Weißenseer Stadtanzeiger (Official Gazette of the City of Weißensee) 1991-

Content: Non-fiction and specialist literature, political literature, local and regional literature of the Weißensee district

The collections are constantly being expanded through donations.