Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg

Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg
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	; Zeughaus, Mathildenstraße 1, Ludwigsburg
Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (de)
Headquarters	Arsenalplatz 3; Ludwigsburg; Germany
Agency executive	Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (de) Gerald Maier; President; Nicole Bickhoff; Deputy PresidentStaatsarchiv Ludwigsburg Peter Müller; Head; Stephan Molitor; Deputy Head;
Website	www.landesarchiv-bw.de/web/49677

The Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg (Ludwigsburg State Archives), located in Ludwigsburg, Germany, is a public institutional repository for roughly 680 state authorities within the District of Stuttgart, Germany.^[1]

Holdings

The historical holdings come from the North Württemberg (de) area. Notable holdings, unveiled through the process of denazification, include documents related to the Holocaust (more than 500,000).

The archives also house the files of the Police Headquarters Stuttgart (de), the decorative folders and role books of the Staatstheater Stuttgart and all birth records of the Landesfrauenklinik Stuttgart (Stuttgart Women's State Hospital); the documents of the Teutonic Order, official books of the convent Ellwangen and documents of Ulm, Esslingen am Neckar, Heilbronn, and other former free imperial cities. The collections also include personnel files of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (the German National Railway) and the Deutsche Bundesbahn (the German Federal Railway) from the Reichsbahndirektion/Bundesbahndirektion Stuttgart (de) (Federal Railway Directorate).

Facilities

The Ludwigsburg State Archives relocated, in 1995, from a castle to the Arsenal Barracks and Armory located in the center of Ludwigsburg.

The Arsenal Barracks (Arsenalkaserne) houses the public areas – including a reading room, an auditorium, an exhibition room, library, and an administration office
The Armory (Zeughaus) houses the stacks, which comprise more than 40,000 metres (130,000 ft) of archives

Both buildings were mechanically and structurally re-purposed to meet the safekeeping requirements of modern archives. The buildings are connected by an underground corridor, through which a transport system delivers documents to researchers in the reading room.

Governmental oversight

As part of the Baden-Württemberg administrative reorganization of 2005, Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg has been a department of the newly created Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (de) (Baden-Württemberg State Archives), which was inaugurated January 1, 2005. Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg is one of eight constituent departments of Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (de). Six of the eight departments have an archival mission and two have a service mission.

Archive departments:

Department 1: Staatsarchiv Freiburg (de)

Department 2: Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe (de)

Department 3: Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg with the branch, Hohenlohe-Zentralarchiv Neuenstein (de)

Department 4: Staatsarchiv Sigmaringen (de)

Department 5: Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart (de)

Department 6: Staatsarchiv Wertheim

Service departments

Department 7: Central Services with Institute for the Preservation of Archives and Library Goods

Department 8: Archival Principle with Land Registry (de) Central Archives of Kornwestheim

The Landesarchiv is a supreme state authority in the portfolio of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art in Baden-Wuerttemberg (de).

Gallery

Arsenal Building
(Guard barracks, horse barracks)
Arsenalplatz 3, Ludwigsburg
(historic engraving, before 1870)

Notes

^ Gerald Maier (born 1966), since 2007 as lecturer and since July 2013 as Honorary Professor, also teaches at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart in the masters program for the Conservation of New Media and Digital Information. He earned his PhD in 1997 from the University of Tübingen. He is a scholar in history, Protestant theology, art history, and historical geography.
^ Nicole Bickhoff (Nicole Bickhoff-Böttcher) is also a lecturer at the University of Tübingen. She earned her PhD in 1984 from the University of Osnabrück. She has been an archivist since 1987, Deputy President since 2000, and Department Head of Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart (de) since 2006.

References

^ Ancestors in German Archives – A Guide to Family History Resources (Vol. 1), by Raymond S. Wright III (translated by Ann Marie Bailey, et al.), Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), pps. 38–39; OCLC 970961279.

[Gerald-Maier-bio-1] Gerald Maier (born 1966), since 2007 as lecturer and since July 2013 as Honorary Professor, also teaches at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart in the masters program for the Conservation of New Media and Digital Information. He earned his PhD in 1997 from the University of Tübingen. He is a scholar in history, Protestant theology, art history, and historical geography.

[Nicole-Bickoff-bio-2] Nicole Bickhoff (Nicole Bickhoff-Böttcher) is also a lecturer at the University of Tübingen. She earned her PhD in 1984 from the University of Osnabrück. She has been an archivist since 1987, Deputy President since 2000, and Department Head of Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart (de) since 2006.

[Wright_2004-3] Ancestors in German Archives – A Guide to Family History Resources (Vol. 1), by Raymond S. Wright III (translated by Ann Marie Bailey, et al.), Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), pps. 38–39; OCLC 970961279.

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