Information on searching

Full Text Search

Use the full text search to find a word or an expression irrespective of which field it occurs in.
Use the full text search first to check whether your search returns a result.

Use the field search to find a word or an expression in a selected database field such as title or reference code.
Use the field search if you want to search selectively and know the meaning or use of the individual fields.

Archive plan search

The archive plan search enables you to navigate in the hierarchical tree structure of the archive, from the higher-level fonds to the individual document provided that it has been captured. Many documents are only comprehensible from their classification in the archive plan.
Use the archive plan search to get an overview of the various fonds or to selectively access known fonds.

IMAGES

This catalog describes the contents of the archives, and does not contain images of the documents. However, for witchcraft files (B 168/14 à 19) and certain series of Criminal Proceedings, hypertext links (at document level) lead to another platform where you can view the digitized documents, and for some of them, their transcription, corrected or not. New documents from these series are regularly put online.

LANGUAGES

Our inventories are written in German and French, regardless of the language of the original documents. As a result, searches for personal names or place names, provided they are bilingual, must be carried out in both languages (see Indexes on our website).

Information on searching

Full Text Search

Field search

Archive plan search