diff --git a/src/Core/Console.php b/src/Core/Console.php
index 82c485179e..a5aff4ae80 100644
--- a/src/Core/Console.php
+++ b/src/Core/Console.php
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ class Console extends \Asika\SimpleConsole\Console
 		'extract'                => __NAMESPACE__ . '\Console\Extract',
 		'globalcommunityblock'   => __NAMESPACE__ . '\Console\GlobalCommunityBlock',
 		'globalcommunitysilence' => __NAMESPACE__ . '\Console\GlobalCommunitySilence',
+		'archivecontact'         => __NAMESPACE__ . '\Console\ArchiveContact',
 		'autoinstall'            => __NAMESPACE__ . '\Console\AutomaticInstallation',
 		'maintenance'            => __NAMESPACE__ . '\Console\Maintenance',
 		'newpassword'            => __NAMESPACE__ . '\Console\NewPassword',
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ Commands:
 	extract                Generate translation string file for the Friendica project (deprecated)
 	globalcommunityblock   Block remote profile from interacting with this node
 	globalcommunitysilence Silence remote profile from global community page
+	archivecontact         Archive a contact when you know that it isn't existing anymore
 	help                   Show help about a command, e.g (bin/console help config)
 	autoinstall            Starts automatic installation of friendica based on values from htconfig.php
 	maintenance            Set maintenance mode for this node
diff --git a/src/Core/Console/ArchiveContact.php b/src/Core/Console/ArchiveContact.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7a973f3116
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Core/Console/ArchiveContact.php
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Friendica\Core\Console;
+
+use Friendica\Core\L10n;
+use dba;
+
+/**
+ * @brief tool to archive a contact on the server
+ *
+ * With this tool you can archive a contact when you know that it isn't existing anymore.
+ * Normally this does happen automatically after a few days.
+ *
+ * License: AGPLv3 or later, same as Friendica
+ *
+ */
+class ArchiveContact extends \Asika\SimpleConsole\Console
+{
+	protected $helpOptions = ['h', 'help', '?'];
+
+	protected function getHelp()
+	{
+		$help = <<<HELP
+console archivecontact - archive a contact
+Usage
+	bin/console archivecontact <profile_url> [-h|--help|-?] [-v]
+
+Description
+	Archive a contact when you know that it isn't existing anymore. Normally this does happen automatically after a few days.
+
+Options
+    -h|--help|-? Show help information
+    -v           Show more debug information.
+HELP;
+		return $help;
+	}
+
+	protected function doExecute()
+	{
+		$a = get_app();
+
+		if ($this->getOption('v')) {
+			$this->out('Class: ' . __CLASS__);
+			$this->out('Arguments: ' . var_export($this->args, true));
+			$this->out('Options: ' . var_export($this->options, true));
+		}
+
+		if (count($this->args) == 0) {
+			$this->out($this->getHelp());
+			return 0;
+		}
+
+		if (count($this->args) > 1) {
+			throw new \Asika\SimpleConsole\CommandArgsException('Too many arguments');
+		}
+
+		require_once '.htconfig.php';
+		$result = \dba::connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_data);
+		unset($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_data);
+
+		if (!$result) {
+			throw new \RuntimeException('Unable to connect to database');
+		}
+
+		$nurl = normalise_link($this->getArgument(0));
+		if (!dba::exists('contact', ['nurl' => $nurl, 'archive' => false])) {
+			throw new \RuntimeException(L10n::t('Could not find any unarchived contact entry for this URL (%s)', $nurl));
+		}
+		if (dba::update('contact', ['archive' => true], ['nurl' => $nurl])) {
+			$condition = ["`cid` IN (SELECT `id` FROM `contact` WHERE `archive`)"];
+			dba::delete('queue', $condition);
+			$this->out(L10n::t('The contact entries have been archived'));
+		} else {
+			throw new \RuntimeException('The contact archival failed.');
+		}
+
+		return 0;
+	}
+}
diff --git a/src/Worker/Queue.php b/src/Worker/Queue.php
index 57f6e92774..345da39abb 100644
--- a/src/Worker/Queue.php
+++ b/src/Worker/Queue.php
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class Queue
 			return;
 		}
 
-		if (empty($contact['notify'])) {
+		if (empty($contact['notify']) || $contact['archive']) {
 			QueueModel::removeItem($q_item['id']);
 			return;
 		}