The Archivportal-D now presents itself in a new look. The website, which was launched in 2014, is a sector-specific access to the data of the German Digital Library and has...

On 13.02.2020, project team representatives from the Federal Archives, the State Archives of Baden-Württemberg and FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure presented the planned infrastructure for the new access option to archival material the Archivportal-D.

"In order that the municipal, city, district and other municipal archives are perceived in the increasingly digital world and that interested parties can find on the Internet not only the state records in Archive Portal D, it is essential that the non-state archives participate in Archivportal D as broadly as possible".

The town archive consists of the final archive, the building file archive and the administrative archive (intermediate archive). In total, it currently holds about 7 500 running metres of records. of archival, written and collection material.

The Stadtarchiv Hof was set up in 1931, initially under the part-time management of a historian with a doctorate, who worked full-time as a teacher of religion. In the course of the following decades, the business expanded and became more professional. At present the archive employs four staff members, two of whom are professional archivists in the higher or middle archive service.