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The Erlangen City Dictionary
is the indispensable reference work for all those interested in the history of Erlangen.
More than 200 specialist authors have compiled the most important knowledge about Erlangen in 1513 factual articles and 439 biographies and supplemented it with over 1000 illustrations. Around 450 references link the information. The keywords contain further sources and literature references. The Erlangen City Dictionary thus offers a comprehensive overview of the past and present of the city of Erlangen from the fields of politics, society, economy, law, administration, topography, environment, church, culture and education.
The online version of the city encyclopedia has the same content as the published version from 2002 and offers the possibility of full-text research.
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| Friederich, Christoph (et al.) (ed.): Erlanger Stadtlexikon. Nuremberg 2002. ISBN: 3-921590-89-2 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 35,00 € |
The following further publications have been published by the city archive
Erlangen City Archive (ed.): Erlangen in the Weimar Republic and under National SocialismTHE FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN 1918-1945, Part 2,1 Andreas Jakob: "The first National Socialist university in the Reich". The University of Erlangen under the shadow of Julius Streicher (Research and Sources on the History of Erlangen, Volume 2,1), Neustadt a. d. Aisch 2024 ISBN 978-3-944452-16-6 | Available from the city archive or order by e-mail, price: 39,90 € | |
| Andreas Jakob, Christina Link, Clemens Wachter (eds.): "So now go to hell!" The book burning on May 12, 1933 in Erlangen. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, special series issue 2), Erlangen 2023. ISBN: 978-3-944452-15-9 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 19,90 € | |
City Archive Erlangen (ed.): Erlangen in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism. The Friedrich Alexander University 1918-1945, Part I. (Research and Sources on the History of Erlangen, Volume 1), Neustadt a. d. Aisch 2021. ISBN: 978-3-944452-14-2 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 39,90 € | |
City Archive Erlangen (ed.): The day of shame. The victims of the progrom against the Jews on November 10, 1938 - Memorial book. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, special series issue 1), Berching 2019. ISBN: 978-3-944452-13-5 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 19,90 € | |
Jakob, Andreas: The death of the combat commander. The end of the war in Erlangen in 1945 as reflected in eyewitness accounts. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, No. 20), Berching 2018. ISBN: 978-3-944452-12-8 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 20,00 € | |
Jakob, Andreas: The city archive of Erlangen 2011-2016. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, No. 19), Wendelstein 2016. ISBN: 978-3-944452-11-1 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 9,80 € | |
Jakob, Andreas and Steger, Peter (ed.): COME BACK, BUT WITHOUT WEAPONS! Memories of the war and imprisonment in Vladimir camps: 70 years of peace. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, No. 18), Erlangen 2015. ISBN: 978-3-944452-0-98 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 14,80 € | |
Jakob, Andreas: Emergency money years. The development of money from the outbreak of the First World War to the hyperinflation of 1923 using the example of the city of Erlangen. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, No. 17), Wendelstein 2016. ISBN: 978-3-944452-08-1 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 14,80 € With simultaneous purchase of the books: - No. 15 "Das Notgeld des Stadtarchivs Erlangen ..." (Vol. 1/A to K) - No . 16 "Das Notgeld des Stadtarchivs Erlangen ..." (Vol. 2/L to Z) Package price: 30,00 € | |
Jakob, Andreas (ed.); Popp, Anna (editor): The emergency money of the Erlangen City Archives from Germany, Austria and the world. A-K. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archives, no. 15), Erlangen 2015. ISBN: 978-3-944452-06-7 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 14,80 € With simultaneous purchase of the books: - No. 16 "Das Notgeld des Stadtarchivs Erlangen ..." (Vol. 2/L to Z) - No. 17 "Notgeldjahre. The development of money ... using the example of the city of Erlangen." Package price: 30,00 € With simultaneous purchase of the book - No . 16 "The emergency money of the Erlangen city archives ..." (Vol. 2/L to Z) Package price 20,00€ | |
Jakob, Andreas (ed.); Popp, Anna (editor): Das Notgeld des Stadtarchivs Erlangen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Welt. L-Z. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archives, no. 16), Erlangen 2015. ISBN: 978-3-944452-07-4 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 14,80 € With simultaneous purchase of the books: - No. 15 "Das Notgeld des Stadtarchivs Erlangen ..." (Vol. 1/A to K) - No. 17 "Notgeldjahre. The development of money ... using the example of the city of Erlangen." Package price 30,00 € With simultaneous purchase of the book - No. 15 "The emergency money of the Erlangen city archives ..." (Vol. 1/A to K) Package price 20,00 € | |
| Jakob, Andreas (ed.): Music in Erlangen, 1945-1955. photographs by Bernd Böhner and others. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, no. 14), Erlangen 2015. ISBN: 978-3-944452-05-0 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 14,80 € | |
| Diefenbacher, Michael (et al.) (ed.): The leap into the dark. The Nuremberg region in the First World War 1914-1918. (Nuremberg City Archive), Nuremberg 2014. ISBN: 978-3-925002-52-6 | Available from the city archive or order via email, price: 38,00 € | |
| Jakob, Andreas and Kunath, Isi (ed.): Archive reloaded and remixed. The Erlangen City Archive as an art object. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, no. 13), Erlangen 2013. ISBN: 978-3-944452-04-3 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 5,80 € | |
| Jakob, Andreas: The Huguenot Church in Erlangen. The most impressive building of reformed tradition in Bavaria. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, No. 12), Wendelstein 2013. ISBN: 978-3-944452-03-6 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 14,80 € | |
| Jakob, Andreas (ed.): From Erlangen to Franconian Switzerland. Early Romantic landscape drawings by Friedrich Wilhelm Doppelmayr from 1797 in the mirror of contemporary travel reports. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, no. 11), Erlangen 2013. ISBN: 978-3-944452-01-2 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 5,80 € | |
| Fuchs, Wolfgang and Jakob, Andreas (ed.): Clean water! Erlangen. The city's drainage company and its history (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, No. 10), Erlangen 2013. ISBN: 978-3-944452-00-5 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 5,80 € | |
| Jakob, Andreas (ed.): "In der Nacht, in der die Judenaktion stattand". The pogrom of November 9/10, 1938 in Erlangen and its legal processing after 1945. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, No. 9), Nuremberg 2011. ISBN: 978-3-930035-15-1 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 29,90 € | |
| Jakob, Andreas (ed.): The Heuwaag- and Goethestraße in Erlangen. The former "Grand Rue" of the new town through the ages. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, No. 8), Nuremberg 2010. ISBN: 978-3-940594-20-4 | Available from the city archive or order via e-mail, price: 10,00 € | |
| Jakob, Andreas (ed.): Rudi and Hilde Stümpel. Erlangen. Kaleidoscope of memories. Photographs 1951-1968. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, No. 7), Erlangen 2008. ISBN: 3-940594-20-2 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 14,95 € | |
| Friederich, Christoph (ed.): Forced labor in Erlangen during the Second World War. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, No. 6), Nuremberg 2007. ISBN: 3-930035-10-3 | Available at the city archives or order via mail, price: 12,50 € | |
| Jakob, Andreas (et al.) (ed.): The Kingdom of Heaven in Erlangen - open by tradition? From 1000 years of Bamberg diocese history. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archives, No. 5), Nuremberg 2007. ISBN: 978-3-921590-80-5 | Available from the city archives or order by mail, price: 19,90 € | |
| Jakob, Andreas (ed.): The Erlangen Bergkirchweih, Germany's oldest and most beautiful beer festival. History, beer culture, fairground. Catalog book for the exhibition of the Erlangen City Museum from 05.05. to 31.07.2005. (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, No. 4), Nuremberg 2005. ISBN: 3-921590-25-3 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 14,90 € | |
| Lehmann, Gertraud (ed.): atelier lederer. Catalog for the exhibition of the Kunstmuseum Erlangen and the Stadtarchiv Erlangen in the Loewenichschen Palais. January 16 to February 13, 2005 (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, No. 3), Erlangen 2005. ISBN: 3-930035-08-1 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 10,00 € | |
| Friederich, Christoph (ed.): Memories - Remembrance - New Beginnings. Speeches on the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism on January 27, 2004 in the Evangelical-Reformed Church Erlangen (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, No. 2), Nuremberg 2005. ISBN: 3-930035-07-3 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: free of charge | |
| Jakob, Andreas and Hoffmann-Randall, Christina (ed.): Erlangen city views. About Erlangen's reputation of being "one of the prettiest towns in Germany ...". (Publications of the Erlangen City Archive, No. 1), Nuremberg 2003. ISBN: 3-921590-31-0 | Available at the city archive or order via mail, price: 14,80 € |
Erlangen building blocks for Franconian local history research
Founded in 1954 by Eduard Rühl and Ernst Deuerlein, the "Erlanger Bausteine" have been published together with the city archives since 1991. It is the only scientific periodical that regularly deals with the history of Erlangen and its surrounding area.
A complete list of all published volumes and the articles they contain is published online.
To the overview of Erlanger Bausteine
Further relevant publications
| Jakob, Andreas (ed.): Erlangen in the 18th century. (The Bavarian Millennium, vol. 8), Munich 2012. ISBN: 978-3-86222-071-7 | Available in local bookshops. | |
| City Museum and City Archive Erlangen (ed.): Ernst Penzoldt - Art and Poetry. Catalog for the exhibition of the Stadtmuseum and Stadtarchiv Erlangen in the Städtische Galerie Erlangen. Erlangen 1992. ISBN: 3-87388-022-9 | Available at the Erlangen City Museum. |