Stiftung Martin-Opitz-Bibliothek
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.
Stiftung Martin-Opitz-Bibliothek
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Berliner Platz 5
44623 Herne
Germany
10.00am - 6.00pm
Wednesday and Friday
10.00am - 2.00pm
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
