Holding I. Old archive’s “Kommunalarchiv” and “Stiftungsarchiv” (archives of the council or magistrate administration with church and foundation administration 14th-19th century)

The terms "Kommunalarchiv" (municipal archive) and "Stiftungsarchiv" (foundation archive) go back to the town of Wasserburg’s "old archive" being arranged according to relevance and to a related (not strictly implemented) division of the two holdings into two vaults in the historic town hall in the 19th century. Both the "Kommunalarchiv" and "Stiftungsarchiv" reflect municipal administrative activity since 1301.

They contain the written legacy of the mayors and municipal council offices, the municipal clerk’s office, the municipal treasurer’s office, the municipal court, the municipal building office and the foundation administrations up to 1808.

The holdings were reorganised and indexed using archival criteria between 2000 and 2018. In the process, the physical arrangement from the 19th century was largely respected. All the old locations of the archival units, which usually served as the basis for citing the archival records in the older literature, were mapped during the reindexing.

Along with the indexing of the contents of the entire collection, the archival records were assigned to classification that reflects the municipal administration’s tasks.

The holdings were therefore not just digitally rearranged and compiled according to task areas in a multi-perspective manner, but, in contrast to the earlier physical arrangement methods, were also processed in full for the first time.

The holdings are mainly indexed and cumulated according to subject-related and personal criteria as well as provenance contexts.

The holding classification is the basis for the presentation of the corresponding "partial collections and hit lists" on the bavarikon platform.

The part collections of the collection "Holding I. Old archive’s “Kommunalarchiv” and “Stiftungsarchiv” (archives of the council or magistrate administration with church and foundation administration 14th-19th century)" available on bavarikon

>> This collection is part of the holdings of the Stadtarchiv Wasserburg am Inn (Wasserburg am Inn Municipal Archive)