Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv

Records cover the Land of Brandenburg and its predecessors, back to the 10th century.

It was founded as the Brandenburgian Provincial Archive (Brandenburgisches Provinzialarchiv) in 1883.

The provincial archive was renamed as State Archive for the Province of Brandenburg and the Reich Capital Berlin (Staatsarchiv für die Provinz Brandenburg und die Reichshauptstadt Berlin) in 1931, reflecting the fact, that formerly Brandenburgian Berlin formed as Greater Berlin a province-like political and territorial entity separate of Brandenburg.

On 21 June 1949 Brandenburg's minister of the interior, Bruno Lentzsch [de], again renamed the archive as the State Archive of Brandenburg (Landesarchiv Brandenburg), with divided Berlin running separate archives.

Since the Archive's premises in the Orangery Palace were too small, the holdings were sparsed over several other places too, until they were all united in the Archive's new building in the quarter of Golm, opening on 1 March 2016 its gates to the users.

Logo of the BLHA
The Orangery Palace , eastern wing, where the BLHA used premises between 1949 and 2010.