in the basement of the Town Council of Steinfurt is located in more than thirty years between the library, where some 1,000 meters of records are housed. All that is no longer used in the current management will end up here and is by Reinhard Begmann filed in stainless ring loops and packed in boxes. Depending on the retention period then store them here between 5 and 30 years. should be decided only after the city archivist Dr. Ralf Klötzer whether the records disposed of or retained forever. However, only about ten percent of the records kept there prove to be historically valuable, and are the actual City Archives, located in the district of Steinfurt, brought and kept there. Among the interesting and important documents including construction documents or the records of the mayor. The files are stored in the temporary archive to be borrowed only internally to the various specialist agencies. The public does not have access to the town hall archives. In the one and a half years of operation in Steinfurt has Dr. Ralf Klötzer already gives a good overview of the city's history, in particular on the tensions, but also friendly relations between the two districts Borghorst and Burg Steinfurt, which merged in 1975 to the town of Steinfurt . His goal is, through lectures, exhibitions and articles that deal with the problem of the divided city, helping to reduce conflicts and instead to achieve a predominantly fellowship.
Contact:
City Archives Steinfurt
On the high school
13 48565 Steinfurt
Tel: 02551 / 919-742
Fax: 02551 / 919-743
kloetzer@stadt-steinfurt.de
Source: Axel Roll, Westfälische Nachrichten, 19.7. 2007; Axel Roll, Westfälische Nachrichten, 07.19.2007
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