Leipzig City Archive

The Leipzig City Archive is one of the largest communal archives in Germany. It offers comprehensive research services to its visitors, and invites them to “dive into the memory of the City”. Predominantly it preserves information about the communal administration and material to track the evolution of the city. They are bunded into 500 collections that comprise records of various kinds. Presently it is storing more than 4,000 certificates, 12,500 shelf meters of documents, books of accounting, news papers, and pamphlets, 90,000 maps and plans, 350,000 photos and post cards, as well as collections on the history of Leipzig since the founding of the city in 1165 till its recent past.

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