Record groups at the Landeshauptarchiv
A mirror of regional history
The Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin preserves:
- about 15.000 charters (the oldest dates from the year 1158)
- about 23.000 linear metres of files (from the 15. century to 1996 )
- more than 100.000 maps, plans and drafts (from the 16. century onwards)
- more than 230 collections of personal papers, partly of national relevance
- a large collection of visual records (notably of persons and places)
- photographic records including aerial photographs
as well as historical manuscripts and prints, autographs, geneological collections, posters and leaflets, coats of arms, signets and seals.
The archive’s guide in three volumes outlines more than 1900 record groups with their current reference numbers and names. It also provides information on their size and structure, summarises their contents and describes the history of their places of origin. If there are any finding aids, they are indicated.
The online-guide informs on charters and paper files from 1158 to 1945 as well as the state archival fonds 1945-1990. So far documents from the private sector (e.g. guilds, private and cooperative industries, political parties, trade unions, different associations, charitable trusts or religious groups as well as familiy archives) are only described in volume 3 of the printed version of the archive’s guide.
Online-finding aids can be researched in ARIADNE, the archival network of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Collections of personal papers and family archives can be found at a central database of the Federal Archives of Germany.
Records of the SED (Socialist Unity Party) at the GDR-districts of Schwerin, Rostock and Neubrandenburg, including the political management in Mecklenburg up to 1952, are presented on a joint internet presence of the newly-formed German states and the Federal Archives of Germany.
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