Publications of the City Archives

The City Archives publish their own works and serve as the publisher of various series on the history of the City of Augsburg. Here you can find an overview of the different publications. If you would like to purchase one of our books, please order it via our contact form. 

In the series “Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Stadt Augsburg” founded in 1928 with Friedrich Haßler’s work on the trading company “David Haug, Hans Langnauer and Mitverwandte” by Hans Wiedenmann and now comprising 37 volumes, scholarly individual studies on the history of the City of Augsburg are published at irregular intervals. These works draw primarily on documents held in the Augsburg City Archives.

While between 1928 and 1933 five works—mainly on economic history—were published, Heinz Friedrich Deininger broadened the scope of the series with ten volumes issued between 1951 and 1963, extending it to other areas of Augsburg’s history. This thematic spectrum, expanded beyond classical urban history to include aspects of art, cultural, and social history, was maintained by Friedrich Blendinger, who oversaw the publication of volumes 16 to 23 between 1966 and 1977.

Since 1977, under the editorial direction of Wolfram Baer, the series has expanded to a total of 37 volumes. With Claudia Kalesse’s study “Bürger in Augsburg. Studien über Bürgerrecht, Neubürger und Bürgen anhand des Augsburger Bürgerbuchs I (1288-1497)”, the most recent volume of the “Studies” series has been available since late 2001.

The second series published by the Augsburg City Archives, “Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Stadt Augsburg. Neue Schriftenreihe” which was established in 1975, will not be continued. On the one hand, only two volumes were published up to 1988; on the other hand, given the structure of the series to date, it seemed necessary to introduce a new series title with a clear distinction from Series 1.

Thus, the more recent series of the City Archives, intended for visually and graphically appealing publications and archival releases (e.g., exhibition catalogues, archival inventories, etc.), carries the title “Beiträge zur Geschichte der Stadt Augsburg".

With the publication “Fotografie in Augsburg 1839 -1900”, the first volume of this new series was presented in spring 2004. In the meantime, the series has grown to seven volumes.