Aufgrund einer technischen Störung kommt es derzeit zu gelegentlichen Ausfällen bei der Archivgutsuche. Zur Vorbeugung wurde die Funktion, beständige Verweise zu öffnen, vorübergehend deaktiviert.
Wir arbeiten an der schnellstmöglichen Lösung des Problems. Sobald eine generelle Lösung vorliegt, werden die beständigen Verweise wieder aktiviert.
Wir bitten um Ihr Verständnis!
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.
Waldenburger Straße 2
48231 Warendorf
Germany
The Warendorf archives contain the combined historical holdings of the county of Warendorf (Kreis) and of 12 cities and communes (Ahlen, Beckum, Beelen, Drensteinfurt, Ennigerloh, Everswinkel, Oelde, Ostbevern, Sassenberg, Sendenhorst, Wadersloh, Warendorf).
Types of archival documents: parchments, files, newspapers, photographs, posters & maps
Historical periods: Late middle ages to the early 21st century.
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 here.
