History of the tradition In Section I, Section V, Building and Transport, files were produced in the following areas: general provisions on building, general provisions on the employment and inspection of building officials, personal data of building officials, state buildings, monuments, private buildings, general provisions on road construction, state roads, vicinal roads, material yards, material extraction and material transport, water and bridge construction, transport institutions: Postal and messenger services, telegraphs, railways, motor vehicle lines and electrical power installations as well as budget and cash management of the building administration. In addition, there are documents on topics such as the creation of small settlements and allotments for the unemployed, especially in the 1930s, motor vehicle permits and driving schools. On 27 May 1946, the water supply files were handed over to the Sigmaringen Water Management Authority for the purpose of carrying out its tasks and were transferred by the latter to the Sigmaringen State Archives with the accessions 1/1955, 40/1957, 16/1958 and 1/1961. Many road construction files were handed over to the Landeskomunalverband, since road construction was transferred to the latter's area of responsibility. These files were handed over by the Sigmaringen Road Construction Office to the Sigmaringen State Archives with accession 11/1979. A file came via the Landeskommunalverband to the Staaltliche Vermessungsamt Sigmaringen and was handed over to the Staatsarchiv Sigmaringen by it on 15.07.1970. The present repertory is a revised version of the two official finding aids of the Prussian Government, Section I, V, Construction and Transportation of 1852 and 1927 (see No. 981 and 982). The two means of finding authorities are partly identical and partly different. Occasionally, file numbers that had previously been regarded as order signatures were assigned twice. As the funds were used to locate authorities, amendments were made and not always in the expected places, which led to a great deal of confusion. The various entries on destruction or transfer to other authorities also created confusion as to the existence or location of the files. The NVA numbers behind the individual title records (if at all clearly assignable) gave a certain indication that the file must already have been in the archive. Some of the files listed here (some of which may be hand files of building officials) were not listed in the repertories of the authorities. The confusion and the poor manageability of the two finding aids, in addition to the necessity of simplifying the old signatures, have led to the present index. The processing of the inventory took place only on the basis of the finding aids and not on the basis of the files. The content of the titles was not checked against the files, but only carefully normalised. Only the actual existence of the files and their duration was determined in the stock in the magazine. Notes of formally conspicuous parts of the file were included in the repertory and no evidence of prior provenance was found. Mainly, however, one has to reckon with the preliminary provinces "Geheime Konferenz Sigmaringen", "Geheime Konferenz Hechingen", "Fürstliche Landesregierung Sigmaringen", "Fürstliche Landesregierung Hechingen", "Preußische Übergangsregierung Sigmaringen", "Preußische Übergangsregierung Hechingen" and "Preußischer Kommissarius". Individual files were left as they were in spite of free conveniences. Foreign provenances include "Fürstliche Landesregierung Sigmaringen", "Fürstliche Hofkammer Sigmaringen", "Kreisbauamt Hechingen", "Preußischer Kommissarius" and "Präsident von Hohenzollern - Abwicklungsstelle". All files with one of the first four foreign provenances mentioned are pre-files, i.e. there were further files with provenance "Prussian Government Sigmaringen" with the same file titles. After the dissolution of Prussia, the authority "President of Hohenzollern - Abwicklungsstelle" had the task, after the dissolution of the Prussian state of Prussia, of completely winding up the business of the Prussian government of Sigmaringen, which was also dissolved in 1945. In the case of files kept until 1945, it is not discarded, as it is usually only a single sheet with a different provenance than the "Prussian Government of Sigmaringen". In the case of the place index, areas and places which were no longer on German territory after 1918 or 1945 were identified as far as possible on the basis of their administrative affiliation when the file was created. This repertory lists all the files listed in the two lists of authorities. If they could not be found, the note "File not available" appears in the repertory. The state of conservation of the files is questionable, as the Prussian-stitched files have so far been loose and unpacked on the shelves. A further deterioration of the state is not to be expected, as the stock has now been packed in an archive-compatible manner. The title recordings were recorded by the undersigned in 2003/2004 using the Midosa 95 archive indexing program. Corinna Knobloch and the undersigned were responsible for checking the files in the magazine. Holger Fleischer completed the final EDP work. The present holdings comprise 982 units of description and 33 linear metres and are quoted as follows: Ho 235 T 11-12 Sigmaringen, March 2005 Birgit Kirchmaier Content and evaluation Includes above all..: General provisions on the construction industry State of the construction administration; ministerial decrees; business circle; dimensions; designation of roads; road construction; hydraulic structures; buildings; disability, health and old age insurance for construction workers; introduction of the Central European standard period; construction costs; power stations and introduction of electric light; Construction science experiments; general contract conditions in the construction industry; deep drilling; material testing office; personnel matters; worker protection and welfare; production lines, construction advice centres; housing; housing law of 1918; Reichsmietengesetz; civil servants' and rural hunters' residential buildings in Sigmaringen; loans for residential buildings; Building cooperatives; utilization of hydropower for electric power generation; annual reports of Energie-Versorgung Schwaben; electric power supply; deep drilling; members of the expropriation authority; housing; complaints; small settlements; Reich guarantees; loans for teachers; house interest tax mortgages; Volkswohnungen; home ownership subsidies; building cooperatives; worker residences; supply of construction timber; cement supply; financial aid from the Reich for community housing estates; operator loans; German housing aid organisation; compensation for space requirements essential to the war - general provisions on employment, inspection, etc. of the building officials Regulations for training in the building trade; instructions for the district master builder of Hechingen; instructions for middle and lower officials of the general building administration - personal data of the building officials Examination of the master builders and foremen; road construction personnel; employment relationships of building councils and surveyors; foremen; foremen; foremen; road builders; road inspectors; building inspectors; road master; Establishment of a district master builder's office in Hechingen; employees of the building administration - royal buildings/state buildings letting of state and municipal residential premises; structural maintenance of state buildings; procurement of fire extinguishers; state buildings in Hinterzarten; disputes with the princely administration concerning buildings in the Haigerloch upper office; maintenance of official housing; claims for compensation; house rules; New buildings, conversions and extensions; central heating systems; inventories of the official housing located in the Oberamtsgebäuden; housekeeping costs; state real estate on Lake Titisee; district administration buildings - architectural monuments Restoration and fortification of the Hohenzollern family castle; preservation of the gate tower near Hechingen; traffic and construction museum - private buildings - regulations for new buildings; lifts and elevators; building and housing association; Private buildings in the individual upper offices; Trochtelfingen city parish church; Müller factory building in Sigmaringen; static calculations; defacements of villages - General provisions on road construction Application of the Olden German provisions; equality of the Hechingeners with the Sigmaringer regions; change in the character of roads; state premiums for state buildings; road police laws; maintenance of country roads; Division of state roads into two road districts; dunging on state roads; instruction for road masters; fencing on roads; procurement of steam rollers; road construction; sewerage; guarding of car parks; state premiums for road construction; counting of motor vehicles; vehicle registration; driving licences; motor vehicle tax; driving instructors; driving schools; test driving licence plates; aviation; international driving licences; Withdrawal of driving licence; police regulations on motor vehicle traffic; testing of motor vehicles and their drivers; road closures; power sports events; aviation companies; driving instructors' licences; warning signs; instructions for the administration of building fund tendancies; road construction law of 1928; road building regulations; new regulations for the road system; road bridge construction; high voltage current path law; motorways; construction of cycle paths; By-pass roads - State roads Condition of road construction; cost of road maintenance; maintenance of country roads; marking of state roads; planting of country roads with trees; small felling of stones on the country roads; keeping open the roadway; new road construction; reconstruction of roads; maintenance; road corrections; production of water culverts; drainage of rainwater; paving of roads; Administration of rural roads; preparation of road registers; correction of general staff maps; pavements and road crossings; supplements to the road construction budget - Vizinalwege Anlage; maintenance; corrections; visitation by the senior officials; differences between communes due to use - material sites, material extraction and transport; creation of a bonus fund for road supervisors from the grass and Use of pastures; land acquisition; road material sites; conditions for the gravel and stone material to be used for road construction; acquisition of material sites; border dispute at the Deutwang gravel pit; tax collection on land belonging to the tax authorities; removal of gravel, sand and stone rubble from rivers; Leasing of fiscal land - hydraulic and bridge construction Floods and their prevention; bridge constructions and bridge statics; bank constructions; hydrographic works; water levels; river corrections; water shortage; artificial water supply pipes; shipping canals; motorboats; river police; landings; Danube infiltration; Fridingen power station; Drainage of rainwater - Postal and messenger services - Regulation of postal and postage services; organisation of rural postal services; private postal services; postal officials; staff changes; postage stamps; radio equipment - telegraph telegraph telegraph services; authorisation for telegraph lines; telephone equipment - railways - railways in Hohenzollern; State supervision of the railways; railway construction on various routes; railway lines to neighbouring countries; small railways; railway land register for small railways; representation of Hohenzollern in the advisory board of the Württemberg transport authorities; Sigmaringen railway station - construction plans; Danube corrections; swearing-in of Württemberg and Baden railway police officers; Hohenzollern state railway: Timetables, supervisory board, general assembly, estimates, balance sheets, tariffs, conversion into a branch line, supervisory audit, supervisory audit report, amendments to the articles of association, management, tax matters, wages, salaries, personnel matters, annual reports - motor vehicle lines Regular traffic of the German Reichspost and the German Reichsbahn; motor vehicle lines; passenger transport; goods transport - budget and cash management of the building administration Budget about the administration; fiscal contributions to road maintenance; contributions of the municipalities to road maintenance; assumption of the road construction costs to the national treasury
