Archives introduce themselves - The Regional Church Archives Kassel

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The Regional Church Archives Kassel is the central archive of the Protestant Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck. With around 750,000 parishioners, the regional church is one of Germany's mid-sized regional churches. In 1934, the Regional Church Hessen-Kassel and the Regional Church of Waldeck and Pyrmont merged. The EKKW includes the parishes of Kassel, Marburg and Hanau-Hersfeld in northern Hesse, Schmalkalden in Thuringia and reaches as far as Frankfurt am Main. 

The Regional Church Archives Kassel exists since 1994 and secures, preserves and indexes the archival property of the regional church. It exercises special supervision over archiving and archive maintenance and participates in the cultural mediation of the archive material.

The tradition dates back to the 9th century. Sheets of dissolved parchment codes were used in the 16th and 17th centuries as protective bindings for church invoices. Parish registers such as invoices have been handed down since the Reformation period. The focus of the holdings begins in the 19th century: consistorial files, parish archives, preliminary and posthumous bequests as well as collections (e.g. Church Struggle, Vasa sacra, Church Buildings).

Six magazines currently hold around 3,000 running metres. Research can be done in a database with 190,000 records and 53,000 digitised photos. You can find information on over 50 (living) estates in the Nachlassdatenbank des Bundesarchivs

About 1.7 million images of the decentralized church records of the state church are available via the church register portal Archion.

 

The Regional Church Archives Kassel present several exhibitions in DDBstudio

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Du wirst staunen, du wirst lachen: Der Kosmos in den Kanons des Herbert Beuerle

Ich war ein Missale. Vom Doppelleben mittelalterlicher Handschriften

Migration und Mortalität in der Frühen Neuzeit

Leuchtende Kirchenfenster – zwei Generationen Glaskünstler Klonk

Communicanten, Kommunikation – ein weites Feld

 

 

Holdings of the Regional Church Archives Kassel in Archivportal-D

 

Contact

Landeskirchliches Archiv Kassel

Lessingstraße 15 A, 34119 Kassel

E-Mail archiv [at] ekkw.de (archiv[at]ekkw[dot]de)

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