City Archives

Hours

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
For use during the afternoon contact: 07261-404182

Records: dating back to 1497
Official record books: land registers dating back to 1691
Register of obligation dating back to 1768, council protocols dating back to 1689
Citizens’ committee protocols, citizen lists, foreigner and company books
Invoices: dating back to 1660
Files: dating back to 1571
Maps/drawings: dating back to the 18th Century
Newspapers:
"Wochenblatt" (1841-1845), "Amts- und Verkündigungsblatt" 1846- 1849),
"Der Landbote" (1852-1924, 1927-1929, 1934)
"Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung" local paper dating back to April 1986
Collections: photos, post cards, inheritance from Sinsheim citizens, official gazettes
Archive library: City Museum Library with approx. 3000 volumes on city and state history
Searchable: inventory 1497 – 1975/76
Church books

Etc.

"Chronicon Sinsheimense" – 900 Years of Sunnesheim Benedictine Monastery (Holger Friedrich)
“For Liberty, Justice and Unity” – Sinsheim During the Times of the Baden Revolution of 1848/49 (Holgar Friedrich)
Several contributions to: “The Rhine-Neckar Area and the Revolution of 1848/49”, “Sites of the Democracy Movement of 1848-49 in Baden-Wurttemberg”