Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu - Oddział w Kamieńcu Ząbkowickim

The archive in Kamieniec Ząbkowicki came into existence in 1992 as a stock (Ekspozytura) of Wrocław State Archive. In 1995 it was renamed the branch of this Archive.

Nowadays. The branch of Wrocław State Archive in Kamieniec Ząbkowicki works on the ground of the Act on National Archival Records and Archives of July 14, 1983, Journal of Law, (Dziennik Ustaw) No 38, 1983.07.19 with later changes.

The archive works in the building of so-called Prelature (remaining part of the former Cistercian abbey).

The archive in Kamieniec Ząbkowicki possesses 1360 collections and archival founds, which makes over 4 running kilometers (as for December 31, 2010). The holdings were taken over from the former stocks in Kłodzko and Książ, the former branch in Wałbrzych and the Wrocław State Archive. There are the following kinds of documents:

• records of villages and local communities (after 1945),
• self-government and local administration documents (after 1945),
• documents of banks and financial institutions,
• documents of local factories,
• documents of agricultural cooperatives,
• documents of German land estates and factories (to 1945),
• judicial documents (courts and prosecutor's offices).