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- 1316 - 1887 (Creation)
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Find aids: Find book around 1900 (online searchable), partly unexcavated inventory information: After the Anhalt division of 1603/06, the newly formed principalities of Bernburg, Dessau, Köthen and Zerbst developed their own archives in their respective residences. In Köthen, an archive was set up in the palace, which still contained required files from the Anhalt Complete Archive, correspondence and private documents of the Anhalt-Köthen line as well as the court and state authorities of the Köthen part of the country. After the extinction of the Zerbst, Köthen and Bernburg lines in 1863, the country was unified into a duchy. From 1872 onwards, the archives of the Anhalt princes and duchies were brought together in Zerbst Palace to form the "Anhalt House and State Archives", which were preserved in their entirety as separate holdings - the so-called "Departments" of Dessau, Köthen and Bernburg - but which were subdivided into a uniform subject scheme irrespective of their provenance. The "Departments" included, among other things, the files of the highest and upper state authorities, the offices/justice offices and city courts as well as special authorities from about 1606 until the administrative cut after the revolution of 1848 in Anhalt, partly also beyond that. For some of these authorities, provenance inventories have also been handed down. During the Second World War, for security reasons, numerous holdings of the Anhaltisches Staatsarchiv Zerbst, including the archives of the Köthen Department, were relocated to other locations. A not inconsiderable number of these files have been lost or are considered lost since the end of the war. Occasionally, the present stock is also affected. Additional information: The stock was filmed as part of the GDR backup filming (so-called Fercher films). Included cards: 12
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State Archive Saxony-Anhalt (Archivtektonik) >> 03. country Anhalt and territorial predecessors (941 - 1945) >> 03.02. Anhalt constituent principalities 1603 - 1848 >> 03.02.03. Anhalt-Köthen (1603/06 - 1848)
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Original description: Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek