Stadtarchiv München

[4] The contents of the Stadtarchiv are made up of the following parts: Bestand Bürgermeister und Rat (mayor and council) holdings contain documents from the highest city administration on all municipal tasks.

The Gewerbeamt inventory contains documents from the field of business and industry, including the archive of the Spaten-Brauerei (Spaten Brewery).

These records include registration documents from the first third of the 19th century, the Munich city chronicle dating back to 1818, numerous legacies and a photo collection, which also contains compilations by Karl Valentin.

Since September 2009, the Stadtarchiv store all Munich birth, marriage, and death certificates for which the statutory retention period has expired under the Civil Status Reform Act; before then it was the lone responsibility of the registry office.

[6] The city of Munich has received from the estate of Shalom Ben-Chorin, the entire contents of the deceased in 1999 religious philosophers home office; Furniture, books and other objects were brought from Jerusalem to Munich and they reconstructed the home office in 2009 in the Stadtarchiv with the original furnishings.