The visible memory.
Photos, narrow-gauge films, audio recordings, interviews. Anything you can see or hear.
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A photo often says more than a thousand words. The black-and-white image of the church fair in 1932. The Super-8 reel grandfather found in the garden. The cassette with the interview no one has ever listened to. Archithek is the right place for them. High-resolution images are automatically scaled down for fast loading — the original stays in full resolution.
A wide range — and you decide what matters.
- Photos at any resolution (TIFF too)
- Videos, narrow-gauge films, Super-8
- Audio: interviews, tape recordings, organ recordings
- Scans of drawings, plans, maps
- Sets: "29 photos from the Cäcilia concert 2025"
- Tagging the people and places shown
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A fictional example
Eighty-seven photos of the Harvest Festival
The local historian brings a shoebox to the town hall. Eighty-seven photos of the Harvest Festival 1972 — dance, brass band, costumes. In Archithek you create a "set" from them. The individual pictures get their names, dates, captions. On every photo the people pictured are tagged. In one hour you have something that previously sat in a box.
Three reasons why pictures & films are a joy in Archithek.
Big and fast
High-resolution originals are archived — for the website fast previews are generated automatically.
Sets make it easy
Group all photos of an event into one set — and the set hangs on the event.
Private stays private
Some images may not be public. They stay safe in the archive — even from prying links.
„When a face gains a name, a photograph becomes a story.“
— Guiding principle of the Pictures collection
These collections belong together
Pictures & films in your community: a conversation?
Show us what you have. We'll show you how it becomes a living collection.