from 1363 granted by
Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria as it appears in the Civic accountings of 1471 (Hs. 173), written by the mayor Konrad Lerhueber The records of the Civic Archives and their language reflect the complex and rich
History of the Alps and especially the
History of South Tyrol, being the oldest documentation from the late 13th century onwards written exclusively in Latin and German. Only from the annexation of the Southern Tyrol after
World War I by Italy in 1919/20 onwards, the records are mainly kept in Italian. The first mentions about the Bolzano records keeping are dating back to the late XV century. In 1472 the
burgermeister Konrad Lerhueber instituted the so called
Stadtbuch as the towns official register of legal acts. In 1776 the civic council, on behalf of the burgermeister Franz von Gumer, decided to gather the municipal records within the old town hall and ordered the civic
scrivener Johann Felix Gigl to collect the archives. As in 1907 the municipality moved to Bolzano's new town hall, the historic documents were transferred to the Civic Museum and recorded by the Austrian historian and archivist Karl Klaar who made an inventory still valid today. In 2002 the whole documentation returned to the old town hall, in the meantime adapted as site of the historic archives. == Holdings ==