Staatsarchiv Augsburg, State archives in Augsburg, Germany.
Staatsarchiv Augsburg is a modern archival facility in Augsburg that stores governmental records for the Swabian administrative region. It serves as the central research location for documents spanning regional history and administration.
The archive's predecessor institutions were the Dillingen archive conservatory, the Kempten depot registry and the Neuburg archive conservatory. In 1830 their holdings were merged at Neuburg Castle, where the archive stayed until 1989, when it moved to a new building in Augsburg's university quarter. A magazine extension followed in 2016.
The archive holds documents from religious institutions and principalities that shaped the region's identity over centuries. Visitors can trace connections between church authority and secular power that influenced how Swabia developed culturally.
The archive is at Salomon-Idler-Straße 2 in Augsburg's Universitätsviertel. Before the entrance stands Jürgen Goertz's 1989 sculpture "Archiva 87", part of the Kunst am Campus sculpture park, which marks the building. A 2016 magazine extension enlarged the storage space; register for the reading room and confirm access conditions in advance.
The archive holds materials from territories that no longer exist, such as the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg, making it a research resource for investigating lost political spaces. These holdings allow researchers to discover connections between different historical entities that were eventually absorbed into larger states.
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