Thuringia (Thüringen) Archives and Libraries

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• For an inventory of archival records, see Archive Portal Thuringia.
• For other archives in Thuringia sorted by cities, see Archive Portal Thuringia Register of Places.

Archive Addresses and Repositories

Below is a list of many important German archives and repositories. There are also a few entries of archives in localities which are now in other Landstat.If you are not able to find your needed Archive address below, this link will take you to a very extensive list of Thuringia (Thüringen) German Archives. You will also find addresses for smaller district archives.

State Archives

Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar
Postal address: PF 27 26
99408 Weimar
Germany

E-Mail: weimar@staatsarchive.thueringen.de
Website

Older holdings (before 1920):
Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar
Beethovenplatz 3, Weimar
Germany

Telephone: (0 36 43) 87 198-315
Fax: ( 0 36 43) 87 198-350

Newer inventories (after 1920):
Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar
Marstallstraße 2, Weimar
Germany

Telephone: (0 36 43) 870-0
Fax: (0 36 43) 870-100

Altenburg

(Responsible for: County Altenburg)

Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Altenburg
Schloss 7
04600 Altenburg
Germany

Telephone: + 49 3447-315488
Fax : + 49 3447-504929
Website
E-mail address: altenburg@staatsarchive.thueringen.de

Greiz

(Responsible for district of Greiz)

Thuringisches Staatsarchiv Greiz
Oberes Schloss 7
07973 Greiz
Germany

Tel: 03661-2537

Gotha

(Responsible for: counties Gotha, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, Eichsfeld)

Landesarchiv Thüringen - Staatsarchiv Gotha
Justus-Perthes-Straße 5
99867 Gotha
Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 36 21/30 27 90
Fax : +49 (0) 36 21/30 27 947
Website http://www.archive-in-thueringen.de/de/contact/index/archivid/212 E-mail: Contact form]

Meiningen

Thuringian State Archive Meiningen
Schloß Bibrabau
98617 Meiningen
Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 36 93/44 67 0
Fax : +49 (0) 36 93/50 22 18
Website
E-mail:landesarchiv@la.thueringen.de

Rudolstadt

Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Rudolstadt
Schloß Heidecksburg
07407 Rudolstadt
Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 36 72/43 19-0
Fax: +49 (0) 36 72/43 19 31
Website
E-Mail:rudolstadt@staatsarchive.thueringen.de

Church Archives

Lutheran Archives

• Evangelisch-lutherische Kirche in Thüringen
  Landeskirchenarchiv Eisenach
  Schloßberg 4a (Kreuzkirche)
  99817 Eisenach
  Germany
  Tel: 03691-881465
  FAX: 03691-7339120
  Email: archiv@elkth.de
• List of holdings

Covers the territories of the former territorial states of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, Saxony-Gotha, Saxony-Altenburg, Saxony-Meiningen, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and Reuss. This also gives information about the locations and addresses of the approximately 750 parish and 18 superintendent archives.

• The Evangelical Church of the Ecclesiastical Province of Saxony:

Covers the former Prussian parts of Thuringia (Kirchenkreis Erfurt, Südharz, Mühlhausen, Henneberger Land, Sömmerda). This also gives information about the approximately 325 parish and superintendent archives as well as the church district archives Niedergebra, Mühlhausen, Straußfurt and Erfurt.

Catholic Archives

Archive of the Episcopal Office Erfurt-Meiningen
Hermanusplatz 9
D-99084 Erfurt
Germany
Tel.: 0361-24595
FAX: 0361-29138
Website

Archive of the Diocese of Fulda
Paulustor 5
D-36037 Fulda
Germany

Phone: 066187 - 375
E-mail:Archive@bistum-fulda.de
Website

Diocesan Archives of the Diocese of Dresden-Meissen
At the Petrikirche 6, 02625 Bautzen
Germany

Postal address:Bishops' Ordinariat
Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer 84, 01309 Dresden
Germany

Phone:03591 - 35195 0
Fax:03591 - 35195 22
E-mail:Archiv@ordinariat-bautzen.de
Website Source:GenWiki

Libraries

University Library Erfurt
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt
Germany

Tel .: 0361 737-5800 (Information)
Fax: 0361 737-5849
E-mail: information.ub@uni-erfurt.de
Website

Library of the University Nordhausen
Weinberghof 4
99734 Nordhausen
Germany

Tel .: 03631 420-184 (Information)
Fax: 03631 420-815
E-mail: bibliothek@hs-nordhausen.de Website

Research Library Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
99867 Gotha
Germany

Tel .: 0361 737-5530
Fax: 0361 737-5539
E-mail: bibliothek.gotha@uni-erfurt.de
Website

Duchess Anna Amalia Library Burgplatz 4
99423 Weimar
Germany

Tel .: 03643 545-106
Fax: 03643 545-118
Website