1. MEMORY WITHOUT BORDERS
CROSS BORDER ARCHIVES 2012 – 2014
Creating the future
Slovak - Austrian cross border cooperation programme 2007-2013
2007-
Written Sources of Slovak and Austrian Archives online

2. Financing
Duration: The European Regional Pre-financing – refunding
1st of February 2012 - 30th of Development Fund (ERDF) 5 accounting periods
June 2014 contributes 85% of the project
costs Interim and final reports on
Part of the European Union´s expenses and contents
cross border cooperation 15% of financial input comes
from national co- financing or Funding in sum € 808.801
program “Creating the future“
equity capital of the partners
Slovak Republic – Austria
2007-2013

3. Project partners
Partner 2
Leadpartner Partner 1 The Ministry of
Partner 3
ICARUS The Austrian Interior SR Netzwerk
International Centre State Archives The State Archive In Geschichte NÖ
for Archival Research Bratislava - The Archive
Of The Capital City Of The in cooperation with the
Slovak Republic Lower Austrian State
Archives

4. Aims & Project Goals
Our challenge is to unite historical regions which were formerly closely woven
together - in this spirit the project establishes cross border access to written
historical sources as a virtual memory without borders
Crossing the Border Research Coming Closer
International Networking The Online Platform Cultural Events
Workshops, courses and guided
Overcoming the national barriers
Free and easy online access to tours accompany the project
within archival work between the
historical sources independently raising public awareness of the
Slovak Republic and Austria
of space, time and social status shared Austrian and Slovak historical
with the help of close cooperation
Boundless and unlimited and cultural roots
availability of important cultural utilization of historical documents
Borderless networking of archives
assets to the interested public for tourism, in schools or further
and common handling of challenges
A virtual platform based on education for adults, as well as for
current scientific and technological experts and hobby researchers of
standards both countries

5. Cultural Activities
4 Workshops 4 Courses Guided Tours
Vienna & Bratislava Vienna & Bratislava Free guided tours in the
For interested people like Austrian State Archives or the
For experts and the hobby historians, pupils, State Archives in Bratislava incl.
interested public students or historical societies free bus transfer
Free of costs Free of costs
Contents: researching with for interested people like
Contents: project progresses, hobby historians, pupils,
the help of written historical
working methods, handling of documents in general, working students or historical societies…
the online portal, possibilities of methods with our online portal,
active working with digitized reading old fonts, genealogical
archival documents… research…

6. PR Activities
10.000 bilingual folders in German & Slovak
Flyers for guided tours
Project Website www.crossborderarchives.eu
Online portal for research
Forum area
Event calendar
Presentation on social media
Final conference in June 2014
Presentation of the project results

7. Digitization program
Activities Slovakia
Architecture
Documents of the city administration Written sources of historical counties
in the border area Slovakia-Austria Commercial activities - craft activities
in Bratislava (1402-1900)
(Collection “District Bratislava I”, 1398 – 1922) Contacts between Slovakia and Austria
Meeting protocols of communal Protocols - meetings of the districts Migratory movements
authorities aristocracy Ownerships of manors
Records of accounting-books and Documents about military activities River transports
concerning court issues Taxes Border controls
Collection of church books
Smaller collections from
(1616 – 1895)
other archives
Migration movements in the region
of Bratislava and Trnava Modra, Trnava, Skalica,Šaľa

8. Digitization program
Activities Austria
Military Church Registers of the „k.u.k. Wehrmacht“ Register books of catholic parishes
General information about baptisms, marriages and Until the Second World War nearly 95% of people
death living in the Slovak – Austrian border region were
Catholics
Data about military personnel, their wives and
children Nearly all of Viennese population from 16th century
until 20th century is registered with year of birth,
marriages or year of death in the church registers
Background information on regional history
Vienna as former capital and residential city of the
Habsburg monarchy domiciled a large amount of
immigrants from many parts of the empire, especially Editing of already digitized sources relating the
from former Upper-Hungarian and today’s Slovak part Austrian-Slovak border region for online availability
of Habsburg monarchy Regional background studies

9. Save the date and visit our second workshop
in the Austrian State Archives!
17th and 18th of October 2012
Get to know more about the Slovak and Austrian archival
landscape
Check out lectures and presentations of all project partners
about the latest archival developments of Slovak and Austrian
Archives.
Thank you for your attention!