Metadata: Collections – Graphics/Plate
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of Aargau
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Aargau
- Postal address:
- Entfelderstrasse 22, CH-5001 Aarau
- Phone number:
- +41 62 835 12 90
- Email:
- staatsarchiv@ag.ch
- Reference number:
- GS
- Title:
- Collections – Graphics/Plate
- Title (official language):
- Sammlungen – Grafik/Platte
- Creator/accumulator:
- Holzhalb, Johann Rudolf
- Date(s):
- 1540/1976
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 1,793 prints
- Type of material:
- Graphic material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Among other things, this collection contains a large number of graphics and drawings, including copper engravings and graphic art with reference to Jewish life in Endingen and Lengnau, but above all a copper engraving of the Lengnau synagogue from 1770. [GS/01633-2; GS/01634-2; GS/01635-2]
- Archival history:
- This collection probably came into the possession of the National Archive during the 19th century.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
After the foundation of the Canton of Aargau in 1803, the Registrar of the State Chancellery in Aarau was responsible for organising and archiving the files produced by the new legislative and executive authorities. In the early years, these were housed in one of the lower rooms of the old town hall, which had been made available to the cantonal government by the Helvetic authorities. In the 1820s the archive moved to the new government building in the front suburb. In 1959, the State Archive and the Cantonal Library moved into a new building designed especially for them. The organisational separation of the two institutions in 1967 was also spatially completed in 1998 when the State Archive moved to the new Buchenhof administration building. The move to the new building brought about a marked improvement in internal operational processes. The archive users have a modern and purpose-oriented working environment in the Buchenhof.
A cantonal government is the government or executive of a canton of the Swiss Confederation. In German-speaking Switzerland, cantonal governments are known as Regierungsrat, in French-speaking Switzerland and Ticino they are usually called Conseil d'État and Consiglio di Stato respectively, which in the bilingual cantons of Fribourg and Valais is expressed in German with Staatsrat. It is a collegial body.
- Subject terms:
- Art
- Synagogues
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.ag.ch/staatsarchiv/suche/suchinfo.aspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020