Vom verborgenen Spezial-Wissen zum zugänglichen Wissensort? Von Nutzen und Nutzung kommunaler Archive.
Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik
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Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik
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DE
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Berlin
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2567-1405
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2901326-4
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ZLB: Kws 118 ZA 3487
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Indem der Beitrag die städtische Wissensproduktion zur Geschichte der Städte in den Blick nimmt, wird zugleich eine zeithistorische Perspektive sichtbar, nämlich die Demokratisierung des Zugangs und der Produktion von Wissen sowie die Vervielfältigung der lokalen Akteure, die Wissen produzierten und vermittelten. Minner macht in ihrem Beitrag zu Archiven als Orten städtischen Wissens deutlich, wie eng das Sammeln und Speichern von historischen Daten und Informationen mit Machtverhältnissen verbunden war. Denn ursprünglich stellten Stadtarchive ein geheimes Reservoir an Herrschaftswissen dar. Stadtarchive waren bedeutende Orte für die Produktion historischen Wissens. Heute stehen sie sowohl in Konkurrenz als auch in Wechselbezügen zu anderen Akteuren und sind nicht nur Forschungs-, sondern auch Erinnerungsorte. Die Frage, wer Zugang zum Sammeln und Speichern von Informationen und Daten hat, ist nicht zu trennen von der Frage, wer lokale Geschichte produziert und wie das geschieht.
Today, archives are considered accessible places of knowledge par excellence and thus represent a modern counter-image to the long-dominant framework of hidden, exclusive knowledge of the elites in power. The article traces opening tendencies in the 19th and 20th centuries. On the one hand, it examines who gained access to urban memory. On the other hand, it sheds light on how the functions of the archives for city and society changed, which sources were regarded as relevant for specific periods and how this influenced the formation of records. Archives not only served as custodians of historical material and advisors to the administration, but also took on tasks of urban representation. As archives became more professional from the end of the 19th century, they offered increasing opportunities to open up access to historical material to more and sometimes also new user groups. Since the second half of the 19th century, municipal archives developed into places where new knowledge of urban history was produced and communicated.
Today, archives are considered accessible places of knowledge par excellence and thus represent a modern counter-image to the long-dominant framework of hidden, exclusive knowledge of the elites in power. The article traces opening tendencies in the 19th and 20th centuries. On the one hand, it examines who gained access to urban memory. On the other hand, it sheds light on how the functions of the archives for city and society changed, which sources were regarded as relevant for specific periods and how this influenced the formation of records. Archives not only served as custodians of historical material and advisors to the administration, but also took on tasks of urban representation. As archives became more professional from the end of the 19th century, they offered increasing opportunities to open up access to historical material to more and sometimes also new user groups. Since the second half of the 19th century, municipal archives developed into places where new knowledge of urban history was produced and communicated.
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Moderne Stadtgeschichte : MSG
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1
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28-45