This document discusses the Porta Fontium project between the Czech and Bavarian state archives to digitize historical records that were divided after World War II. The project has digitized birth, marriage, death, and census records; chronicles; photographs; and lists of spa guests from the border region. A new related project is the Czech-Bavarian Archive Guide database that provides detailed information on collections from both countries held in each other's archives. The goal is to make these dispersed historical sources more accessible online to researchers while addressing copyright issues.

1. Porta Fontium and
Czech-Bavarian Archive Guide
The Common Projects of the Czech
and Bavarian State Archives and
Further Perspectives of Digitizing
© Karel Halla – Milan Augustin
Prague 27. April 2015

2. Bavarian-Czech Net of The Historical
Digitized Sources
The Goals:
70 years after the World War II the first attemt to
collect all records, which had been divided during
the tranfer of the German inhabitants of the former
Czechoslovakia (1945–1947), who had to leave this
country (about 3 Mil. People). They took some
records with themselves, which are stored in the
Bavarian state archives today. After their digitizing
they will be published at our website.
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3. Bavarian-Czech Net of the Historical
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4. Cooperating Partners
• State Regional Archive Plzeň/Pilsen – lead partner
• General Headquarters of The State Bavarian
Archives
• Bavarian Main State Archive
• State Archive Amberg
• State District Archive Cheb (Eger)
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5. Opening the Portal – April 2011 in Waldsassen
M. Ksoll-Marcon with the abbot Maria Laetitia Fech
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6. Content of Porta fontium
• Birth, matrinomy and death registers
• Chronicles
• Photos
• Charters (Monastry Waldsassen, state
archives)
• Lists of spa guests (Kurlisten)
• Newspapers and magazines
• Census records 1869
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7. Birth, matrinomy and death records
• Ca. 11 500 volumes
• Digitazing since 2006
• Digitizing is ready = the entire records are
already published and available at
www.portafontium.eu
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9. Chronicles
• In total 5124 chronicles of various offices,
scools, parishes, societies or private persons
• Digitizing since 2009
• Author law problem (school and private
chronicles)
• Digitizing is ready = the chosen records are
published and available at
www.portafontium.eu
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10. Chronicle of the town Joachimsthal
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11. Parish office chronicle
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13. Chronicle of the voluntary firemen in
Franzensbad 1873–1938
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15. Photos
• 14 040 Photos
• Digitazing since 2006
• Author law problem (school and private
chronicles)
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16. Der Nürnberger Madrigal-Chor
in Bayreuth 1941
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17. "Troppau. Eispavillion"
1907
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18. Charters
(Monastery Waldsassen, town archives)
• 2200 charters 1133 - 1917
• Digitazing since 2011
• Monasterium
• Already available districts of Karlovy Vary,
Klatovy, Domažlice and 5. department of State
regional archive Plzeň
• Cheb: 3000 digitized charters, not ready yet
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19. Waldsassen 1133
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20. Lists of spa guests
1800–1941
• 440 volumes
• Digitazing since 2012
• Franzensbad, Karlsbad, Marienbad,
Konstantinsbad
• Next cooperation with further spa towns
• Balneology
• Digitizing is ready = the entire lists are published
and available at
www.portafontium.eu
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21. Franzensbader Kurliste 1800
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22. Newspaper - Magazines
• Egerer Anzeiger, Egerer Zeitung, Karlsbader
Badeblatt, Posel od Čerchova
• Digitizing since 2011
• Published only until 1900 – author law
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23. Egerer Anzeiger 1847
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24. Census records 1869
• District of Tachov and Domažlice
• Digitazing since 2012
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25. Census Roßhaupt (Rozvadov) 1869
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27. Our contemporary projekt:
Czech-Bavarian Archive Guide
• This project enables a creating of the two-
language database (CZ/D), which brings very
detailed information about Bomemica and
Bavarica in Czech Republic and Bavaria
• Further step in digitizing – not only to digitize
the individual records itself, but to bring the
entire information about the archives and
their collections
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28. Bohemicum/Bavaricum
• All records which deal with the history, events,
localities, persons etc. of both countries and
which are stored in Czech state archives
(Bavarica) and in Bavarian state archives
(Bohemica)
• Found 18 000 Bavarica + 3000 Bohemica
between 1010–2007
• Ceremonial opening on 13th May 2015 in
Amberg
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29. Czech-Bavarian Archive Guide – our partners
Czech Republik
National Archiv Prag/Praha
Staatliches Gebietsarchiv Prag/Praha
Staatliches Gebietsarchiv Leitmeritz/Litoměřice
Staatliches Gebietsarchiv Samrsk/Zámrsk
Staatliches Gebietsarchiv Pilsen/Plzeň
Staatliches Gebietsarchiv Wittingau/Třeboň
Mährisches Landesarchiv Brunn/Brno
Landesarchiv Troppau/Opava
Free State Bavaria
Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (München)
Staatsarchiv Amberg
Staatsarchiv Augsburg
Staatsarchiv Bamberg
Staatsarchiv Coburg
Staatsarchiv Landshut
Staatsarchiv München
Staatsarchiv Nürnberg
Staatsarchiv Würzburg
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30. Further Possibilities of Archive Guide
• Joining non-state and private archives
• Digitazing the most interresting Bohemica
und Bavarica
• Inventary books online
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31. Thank you!
© Karel Halla, Milan Augustin 2015
State Regional Archive Plzeň/Pilsen
E-mail: halla@soaplzen.cz; augustin@soaplzen.cz