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In the basement of the Carl Orff primary school, archivist Christoph Aschermann has been bringing order to the history of the Andechs districts of Erling, Frieding and Machtlfing for a year and a half.
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Anything older than 30 years only becomes interesting for archivists.
The community of Andechs has been employing an archivist for a year and a half.
On Tuesday, Christoph Aschermann presented his work to the local council.
Andechs
– What many archives have in common is that they are housed in a cellar or attic.
This is no different in Andechs.
Christoph Aschermann looks after the community archive “below the Carl Orff School,” as he says.
For a year and a half, the qualified archivist has been organizing and organizing old photographs, data and documents from the three districts of the monastery community six hours a week.
Aschermann's main job is working in the Starnberg city archives.
He reported to the local council on Tuesday that he was very pleased when he started in Andechs because he found a “very suitable records management system”.
This is not always the case, rather “chaotic conditions” prevail.
The council was able to benefit from several vocabulary words from archivist language and learned the difference between administrative and archival material.
The decisive factor is age, because everything that is older than 30 years is archival material and therefore interesting for the archivist.
And an archivists' "Faust" has nothing to do with Goethe, but is a search software like Google, except that it is entered and tagged with "recording units" solely by archivists.
What appears in “Faust” is quotable, assured Aschermann, and can therefore also be used for scientific work.
“We still have gaps in our villages,” said Mayor Georg Scheitz and, together with Aschermann, called for documents, pictures, postcards, finds or documents from old times to be handed in to the archive.
“But please don’t send me anyone who brings sculptures or old drinking vessels, that’s more for the museum,” added Aschermann.
Overall, there is still a gap regarding the two world wars.
In the archive there is at least some information from Erling from before and after the wars, but not from the time of the wars.
“It only becomes more from 1945 onwards.
There are only a few architectural drawings from the National Socialist era.” The oldest documents came from the middle of the 19th century.
There's still a lot left in storage
However, the archivist admitted that the entire town hall storage, which still contains some records, had not yet been worked through.
He would be very happy to receive documents and/or photographs.
“There must be something else,” Aschermann is certain.
Scheitz assures that documents will also be treated confidentially.
The mayor was pleased that Andechs' history was becoming available thanks to Aschermann.
“There is a professional at work.” There have already been 45 inquiries since Aschermann started working for the community.
He found 1,450 units of description when he started.
Since then, 170 have been added.
Extrapolated, the space under the school will be sufficient for another five years.
When asked by Christian Pfander (Bayern Party), Aschermann said that digitizing the archive in Bavaria was still unaffordable.
While archives in Baden-Württemberg can access a shared digital archive for 300 euros a month, in Bavaria it costs 20,000 euros a year.
“Cities like Ingolstadt or Nuremberg can afford that, but not small communities.”
Aschermann invited the local councilors to visit him in the archives under the school.
Every citizen is free to do this if they are interested and have any questions by making an appointment at the town hall.