Saxon State Archives - State Archives Chemnitz
The Chemnitz State Archives is Department 4 of the Saxon State Archives. It is responsible for the records of the authorities, courts and other public bodies in the former administrative district of Chemnitz and their legal and functional predecessors.
The Chemnitz State Archives holds the archival records of individual imperial and federal authorities, of administrative and judicial authorities at the upper, middle and lower levels, of upper, middle and lower courts, of manors/knightly estates, including the Schönburg manors with a collection of documents dating back to 1233, of private and state-owned businesses and economic management institutions with a focus on the textile, automotive and mechanical engineering sectors, of political parties and organisations, including theSED district party archive Karl-Marx-Stadt (including the SED regional leadership of Wismut) as well as bequests and collections and a library comprising around 27,000 media units.000 media units in the library.
Everyone has the right to use the archives of the Free State of Saxony. You can search online in the cataloguing information of the Saxon State Archives.
You can order archive material in advance for inspection in the reading room.
You can find further information on using the archive material here.