Highlights
Serial sources such as the historical address books and the records of the Saxon state parliaments, important specialist journals such as the Neue Archiv für sächsische Geschichte and popular journals such as the Dresdner Hefte: On this page we present some of the highlights of our digital offers for Saxon regional studies. Many other collections relevant to Saxon regional studies can be found in our Digital Collections. Have fun browsing!
Saxon address books
Historical address books can be used not only to answer questions about the exact place of residence of great-grandparents or the inhabitants of individual houses - they also contain, for example, the opening hours of the Royal Public Library (Königliche Öffentliche Bibliothek) 100 years ago or an overview of the newspapers published in a town at that time. They are therefore equally valuable sources for regional social and cultural history as they are for private family research. Based on a project with the Dresden city archives and the municipal libraries (Städtische Bibliotheken), the address books of 450 Saxon towns have now been digitized and indexed. You can search by street or personal name or via a temporal and spatial search interface.
Saxon state parliament minutes and files
This collection offers you a comprehensive compilation of minutes and files of the historical Saxon state parliaments. Here you will find, among other things, documentation of the proceedings of the bicameral parliament in the Kingdom of Saxony (1833-1918), the state parliaments of the Free State of Saxony in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and the state of Saxony in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR (until 1952). The SLUB was able to digitize and make accessible several hundred thousand pages of Saxon parliamentary history with the support of the Saxon State Parliament and through the state digitization programme of the Free State of Saxony.
Neues Archiv für sächsische Geschichte
The Neues Archiv für sächsische Geschichte is the authoritative journal on Saxon regional history. It has been published since the 1860s: first as Archiv für die Sächsische Geschichte, then as Neues Archiv für Sächsische Geschichte und Altertumskunde. When the journal had to cease publication in 1943 due to the war, it had acquired a recognised place among the leading regional history journals in Germany. Since 1993 it has been continuing this tradition. In cooperation with the Institute of Saxon History and Folklore, the SLUB makes both the historical and the current issues of the journal available to you digitally.
Dresden Hefte
The Dresdner Hefte has been published as a magazine on cultural history since 1983 and is now one of the most successful city and regional history publications in Germany. In addition to the history of Dresden and the region, the diverse range of topics also includes the various cultural landscapes, famous personalities and the city's relations with its European neighbors. The editors also see it as an important task to get involved in current debates in the city. Furthermore, they want to communicate the current research results of the many actors in and around Dresden who deal with the past to the public. The Dresdner Hefte are published quarterly by the Dresdner Geschichtsverein. In cooperation between the association and the SLUB, the first 100 issues, published from 1983 to 2009, are available digitally and searchable in full text.
To make an appointment for a consultation
Do you still have questions about Saxon regional studies? Then simply book an individual consultation appointment via the SLUB Knowledge Bar. Our staff will then sit down with you for about 30 minutes.
For special enquiries and requests, you can also contact our responsible head of department for Saxonica:
Martin Munke
Phone: +49 351 4677-684
Fax: +49 351 4677-733
E-mail: saxonica@slub-dresden.de