City Archive Braunschweig

The Braunschweig City Archive is one of the largest municipal archives in Lower Saxony. Its records date back to the year 1031. Since June 25, 2007, it has been located in the reconstructed Braunschweig Castle.
As early as the beginning of the 15th century, an archive for the city of Braunschweig can be documented, in which important documents were kept for reasons of legal security. After the loss of the city's freedom in 1671, the main part of the archival materials was confiscated and moved to the ducal residence city of Wolfenbüttel. The records that remained in Braunschweig were initially stored in the mint at Kohlmarkt and from 1717 in the Neustadtrathaus. During Braunschweig's affiliation with Napoleon's department of Oker between 1807 and 1813, the historical records were affected. The situation only improved with the further development of local self-government in 1825. The magistrate director Wilhelm Bode, who has been in office since 1825, ensured suitable archiving and housing for the city's documents in the cloister of the Brüdernkirche and advocated for the return of the records that had been alienated since 1671.

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