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Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln

The archives preserve the written cultural heritage in its area of responsibility. It safeguards legal and cultural assets of high value and serves the needs of society for historical information, transparency of administrative action and legal certainty. On these pages you will find further information and references to the archive.

Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln

Opening Times & Contact

Your Contact

Eifelwall 5
50674 Cologne
Germany

Phone number
+49 221-22122327
Fax
+49 221-22122480
Opening hours
Tuesday to Friday
9.00am - 4.30pm
Wednesday
9.00am- 7.45pm
Our holdings

The holdings of the archive refer to diverse groups of documents that have been combined into a unit according to logically comprehensible aspects such as their origin, their context of origin and their factual content according to formal characteristics. These include, for example, the files of city and district administrations, but also collections of photographs and newspaper clippings. Almost all documents in an archive are assigned to collections that structure the archive. The holdings of the archive are available online in this portal and can be researched