{"id":5690,"date":"2025-11-24T04:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weissensee.de\/citizens-and-the-city\/city-administration\/city-archive\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:57:38","slug":"city-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.weissensee.de\/en\/citizens-and-the-city\/city-administration\/city-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"City archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two visitor places are available for our guests in the archive. Access to the archive and library is suitable for wheelchairs.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Overview of the holdings of the historical archive<\/h2><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Holdings A: Duration 1515-1958, volume 58.0 running meters<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Contents:<\/strong> 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<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Holdings B: Term 1337-1902, volume 56.0 linear meters<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Contents:<\/strong> 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<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Holdings C: Duration 1832-1964, volume 45.0 running meters<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Contents:<\/strong> 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<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Holdings D: Term 1945-1990, volume 70 running meters<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Contents:<\/strong> Interim archive<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

You can find out about the contents of the individual holdings in the Thuringia Archive Portal or consult the Findbuch on site.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Historical holdings of the municipalities of Waltersdorf and Scherndorf<\/h2><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Waltersdorf: duration 1777-1961, volume 3.8 running meters<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Contents:<\/strong> police matters, trade, taxes, property matters, welfare, medical matters, treasury matters, church matters<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Scherndorf: duration 1789-1960, volume 4.1 running meters<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Contents:<\/strong> statistics, property matters, police matters, treasury matters, taxes, trade, guild matters, building matters<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Registry office registers: duration 1874-1973, volume 4.0 running meters<\/h2><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Register of Wei\u00dfensee<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Contents:<\/strong> Birth announcements 1874-1898, Marriage announcements 1874-1927, Death announcements 1874-1973<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Register of Ottenhausen (includes the villages of Ottenhausen, Nausi\u00df, Herrnschwende and Gr\u00fcningen)<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Contents:<\/strong> Birth announcements 1874-1898, Marriage announcements 1874-1899, Death announcements 1874-1966<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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!<\/p>\n<\/div>

Collections inventory<\/h2><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Photos, volume 2 running meters<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Content before 1990:<\/strong> undeveloped,<\/p>\n

Content after 1990:<\/strong> development of the town of Wei\u00dfensee (culture, sport, politics, business)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Donations, volume 4 linear meters<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Contents:<\/strong> Literature 1928-1964, photo albums, certificates etc.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Maps and plans: Duration 1572-1993, 42 items<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Contents:<\/strong> Maps of the Wei\u00dfensee and Sachsenburg districts, maps of the town and district of Wei\u00dfensee<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Newspaper holdings: Duration 1824-1990, 142 volumes<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wei\u00dfenseer Kreisblatt 1824-1826, 1829-1831, 1834, 1838, 1840-1849, 1851-1880; Wei\u00dfenseer Zeitung1881-1933;<\/p>\n

Wei\u00dfenseer Kreiszeitung 1933-1941; Wei\u00dfenseer Gauzeitung 1941-1944;<\/p>\n

Th\u00fcringer Volk- Zeitung 1946-1948;<\/p>\n

Th\u00fcringer Volk 1949;<\/p>\n

Das Volk 1951-1954, 1989-1990<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Official gazettes: Duration 1818-, 97 volumes<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Official Gazette of the Royal Government of Erfurt 1818-1831;<\/p>\n

Official Gazette of the Prussian Government of Erfurt 1832-1836;<\/p>\n

Official Notices of the County Council of Wei\u00dfensee 1848-1950;<\/p>\n

Official Notices of the County Council of Erfurt 1950-1952 (microfilm);<\/p>\n

Wei\u00dfenseer Stadtanzeiger (Official Gazette of the City of Wei\u00dfensee) 1991-<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Archive library: size 13lfd m<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Content: <\/strong>Non-fiction and specialist literature, political literature, local and regional literature of the Wei\u00dfensee district<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The collections are constantly being expanded through donations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5170,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5690","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weissensee.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weissensee.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weissensee.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissensee.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissensee.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5690"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissensee.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5737,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissensee.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5690\/revisions\/5737"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weissensee.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weissensee.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}