Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu - Oddział w Bolesławcu

The archive in Lubań came into existence in 1961 as a County State Archive. In 1995 it became the branch of Wrocław State Archive. In 2014 the archive was transferred to Bolesławiec.

Nowadays. The branch of Wrocław State Archive in Bolesławiec 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 in Lubań was located at 6 Bankowa street, in 1994 it was relocated to the former printing house building at 10 Bankowa street. As the state of the archive building in Lubań was deteriorating and the town of Bolesławiec promised to renovate the building of the former vocational school workshops for archival purposes, in 2014 all the archive was transferred from Lubań to Bolesławiec.

The archive in Bolesławiec possesses the following kinds of holdings:

• records of towns (from 16th century),
• self-government and local administration documents (after 1945).
• birth, marriage and death records (from 19th and 20th century),
• judicial documents (courts),
• notarial files,
• documents of agricultural cooperatives and state farms (PGR).