Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch

First published in 1961, the „Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch“ is the leading scholarly journal on the history and cultural history of the city of Trier and its surrounding regions: the neighbouring countries of Luxembourg, France, and Belgium, as well as the Eifel, the Hunsrück, the western Palatinate, and the northern Saarland. Since the editorial change in 2023, Stephan Laux has served as co-editor alongside PD Dr. Francesco Roberg. The journal is published on behalf of the Scientific Library and the City Archive of Trier.

 

Note: Articles from the yearbooks will gradually be made available online starting with the 2022 volume (following a "moving wall" model) via the website of the “Verlag für Geschichte und Kultur”.

[Translate to Englisch:] Cover Kurtrierisches JB 2024

Contents of the current Volume 64 (2024):

  • Francesco Roberg und Stephan Laux: Editorial (pp. 9–11)
  • Eva Schlotheuber: Treffpunkt Trier. Das Chronicon quadripartitum, die Rolle Erzbischof Balduins und seiner Gelehrten für das erste Grundgesetz des römisch-deutschen Reichs 1356 (pp. 13–57)
  • Petra Schulte: Trier macht Geschichte. Erinnerungspolitik im 14. Jahrhundert und die Handschrift 1354/1693 gr. 2° (pp. 59–102)
  • Leonie Stevens: Black swans and Australian elephants: Reading the gaps on the Trier Coronelli Globe (pp. 103–115)
  • Peter Brommer: Zu kurtrierischen Bergwerken in den Ämtern Bernkastel, Baldenau und Pfalzel von 1661 bis 1695 (pp. 117–153)
  • Jort Blazejewski: Gegen allen Zwang und die Abschätzung der Gebäude. Landesherrliche Reformpolitik und bürgerschaftliche Opposition im Kontext des Trierer Brandversicherungsstreits (1783–1794) (pp. 155–180)
  • Wolfgang Hans Stein: Die Notablen des Saardepartements nach den Meistbesteuertenlisten (pp. 181–239)
  • Mario Simmer: Anton Josef Ignaz Liehs (1797–1874). Eine biographisch-bibliographische Studie (pp. 241–278)
  • Stephan Laux: Trier im Bombenkrieg 1944/1945: Das „Leichenbuch“ des Totengräbers Georg Gotthard (pp. 279–317)
  • Johannes Strähle: Die Trierer Oberschicht vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg: Strukturen und Sozialtopographie (pp. 319–348)
  • Bernd Röder: Das Verfahren zur Restitution des Gemäldes „Eissegeln“ von Adam van Breen an die Erbin des jüdischen Kunsthändlers Jacques Goudstikker (1897–1940) (pp. 349–360) 
     

Trierer Historische Forschungen

The series „Trierer Historischen Forschungen“, founded in 1981 by Alfred Haverkamp and Franz Irsigler, focuses on the city and region of Trier, with recurring emphasis on Lorraine in present-day France. The series publishes monographs and edited volumes covering topics from the Middle Ages to contemporary history. The current editors are Lukas Clemens and Stephan Laux.

 

[Translate to Englisch:] Trierer Historische Forschungen 78

Most recent volume:

Hanna Schäfer, Jean Aubrion l’escripvain. Lebensweg, historiografisches Schaffen und posthume Rezeption eines Metzer Bürgers im Spätmittelalter (= Trierer Historische Forschungen, Bd. 78), Trier: Verlag für Geschichte und Kultur 2023. – ISBN: 978-3-945768-37-2

“In 1465, Jean Aubrion (1440–1501), a respected citizen, wealthy merchant, and municipal official of the Free City of Metz, decided to compile an information collection on current events in his hometown. He continued updating the manuscript until his death and added, by the 1480s at the latest, a handwritten copy of several earlier city histories. His manuscript remains one of the most important narrative sources on Metz in the 15th century. But who was this man, what motivated his writing, and how did his work influence later historiographers? This study reconstructs Aubrion’s life and social networks and offers the first in-depth content and material analysis of his autograph manuscript. It also highlights how his work was received by Metz chroniclers in the 16th century.” (Translation of the Publisher’s description)
 

Research on the History of the Jews

Stephan Laux is also involved—alongside Lukas Clemens and Sabine Ullmann—in publishing volumes in the Series of the Society for the Study of the History of the Jews (Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden e.V.) and the Arye Maimon Institute for the History of the Jews. The series was established in 1995 alongside the founding of the Arye Maimon Institute in Trier by Alfred Haverkamp. It is currently edited by Andreas Brämer, Christoph Cluse, and Eva Haverkamp-Rott.

 

Most recent volume:

Martha Keil, Peter Rauscher & Sabine Ullmann (Hg.), Juden und Krieg in der Frühen Neuzeit. Akteure – Erfahrungen – Strukturwandel, Wiesbaden 2022 (Forschungen zur Geschichte der Juden, Bd. A 33). – ISBN: 978-3-447-11857-6

Link to full series overview