Old home - new home

The 13th DAY OF ARCHIVES will take place on 6 March 2026. This day of action offers you the opportunity to get to know well-known and lesser-known archives from Würzburg, to find out about the holdings and the possibilities for use and research.

Where: This year's host is the Würzburg City Archives at Neubaustraße 12.

When: The gates will open from 3 pm, and you can obtain information and advice from all the archives present on 3 floors and discover the individual items you have brought with you.

Guided tours through the city archives and the Riesengebirgsstube at 3.30pm, 4.30pm and 5.30pm

End of the event: 6 pm

Participation is of course free of charge.

The motto: "Old home - new home"

In the e-voting, the members of the archive association voted by a large majority in favour of the motto "Old homeland - new homeland". This theme offers a wealth of points of reference in our collections. Archives harbour countless stories about migration, flight, arrival, putting down roots and the transformation of communities. There are exciting finds about people who have had to leave their homeland or have voluntarily sought a new one, about the preservation of old traditions in a foreign country and the emergence of new identities and cultures. Profound stories of changes of location, such as the founding of new institutions like universities, also exemplify the transformation from "old" to "new" home. This motto allows us to visualise the profound processes of change, identity and integration in our society through the lens of historical tradition using the example of the term "Heimat".

Participating archives:

University Archives Würzburg

Würzburg City Archives

Archives and library of the diocese of Würzburg

Archives of the Kulturwerk Silesia Foundation

Archives of the Juliusspital Würzburg Foundation

Riesengebirgler Heimatkreis Trautenau e.V.

Archives of the Würzburger Versorgungs- und Verkehrs-GmbH