Korbach
Baby boomers and the Enlightenment, the Beatles and the Cold War, motorization and technological change, the pub and television: the 1960s are regarded as a decade of social change between custom and modernity, between holding on to the old and striving for the new. The exhibition is a journey back in time to the decade of growing prosperity and political awakening, with the questioning of inherited authorities, although in the small town of Korbach it was often still very much shaped by tradition. Nevertheless, Korbach also underwent a transformation in the 1960s toward a more modern society and a town with new infrastructure as well as leisure and nightlife options.
The Korbach City Archive holds several hundred shelf meters of historically significant written records from the late Middle Ages to the present day. In accordance with legal requirements, these records can generally be used by anyone for private or public research. But how do you even begin a research project, and how do you find the right documents in the archive? The speaker aims to answer these questions in this lecture and thus provide interested local history and family researchers with a practical guide to using and researching the Korbach City Archive.
