Glass plates from the holdings of the Bayerischer Landesverein für Heimatpflege e.V.

The Bayerischer Landesverein für Heimatpflege e.V. (Bavarian State Association for Local Traditions and History) owns an extensive picture archive with more than 40,000 photographs from the end of the 19th century to the present day.
In particular, the collection of glass plate positives from the 1890s to the mid-20th century is of special, cultural-historical value. It comprises about 3,000 individual photographs.

The glass plates depict streets, village squares, individual buildings (including agricultural estates, farmhouses and town houses, churches and chapels) but also natural spaces and cultural landscapes as well as technical buildings that were built during the early days of mechanisation and electrification in Bavaria from the 1920s onwards.

Geographically, the photographs cover the entire Bavarian region with all districts of the Bavarian administrative districts as well as the area of the Palatinate, which belonged to Bavaria until 1946. Among the photographs are, for example, interesting photographs of the old towns of Munich and Nuremberg before the destruction caused by the Second World War.

• The objects of the collection "Glass plates from the holdings of the Bayerischer Landesverein für Heimatpflege e. V." available on bavarikon

The part collections of the collection "Glass plates from the holdings of the Bayerischer Landesverein für Heimatpflege e. V." available on bavarikon

• Historical views of farmhouses on glass plates
• Historical views of post office buildings on glass plates
• Historical views of granaries on glass plates
• Historical views of castles on glass plates
• Historical views of sacred buildings on glass plates
• Historical city views of Munich and its districts on glass plates

>> This collection is part of the holdings of the Bayerischer Landesverein für Heimatpflege e. V. (Bavarian State Association for Local Traditions and History).