diff --git a/R/KorAPQuery.R b/R/KorAPQuery.R
index 8081f01..1ca8123 100644
--- a/R/KorAPQuery.R
+++ b/R/KorAPQuery.R
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
 #' @export
 KorAPQuery <- setClass("KorAPQuery", slots = c(
+  "korapConnection",
   "request",
   "vc",
   "totalResults",
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@
 #'
 #' @rdname KorAPQuery-class
 #' @param .Object …
+#' @param korapConnection KorAPConnection object
 #' @param request query part of the request URL
 #' @param vc definition of a virtual corpus
 #' @param totalResults number of hits the query has yielded
@@ -39,10 +41,11 @@
 #' @param collectedMatches matches already fetched from the KorAP-API-server
 #' @export
 setMethod("initialize", "KorAPQuery",
-          function(.Object, request = NULL, vc="", totalResults=0, nextStartIndex=0, fields=c("corpusSigle", "textSigle", "pubDate",  "pubPlace",
+          function(.Object, korapConnection = NULL, request = NULL, vc="", totalResults=0, nextStartIndex=0, fields=c("corpusSigle", "textSigle", "pubDate",  "pubPlace",
                                                                               "availability", "textClass", "snippet"),
                    requestUrl="", webUIRequestUrl = "", apiResponse = NULL, hasMoreMatches= FALSE, collectedMatches = NULL) {
             .Object <- callNextMethod()
+            .Object@korapConnection = korapConnection
             .Object@request = request
             .Object@vc = vc
             .Object@totalResults = totalResults
@@ -153,6 +156,7 @@
               cat(" took ", res$meta$benchmark, "\n", sep="")
             }
             KorAPQuery(
+              korapConnection = kco,
               nextStartIndex = 0,
               fields = fields[!fields %in% contentFields],
               requestUrl = requestUrl,
@@ -217,6 +221,7 @@
   }
   nextStartIndex <- min(res$meta$startIndex + res$meta$itemsPerPage, res$meta$totalResults)
   KorAPQuery(nextStartIndex = nextStartIndex,
+    korapConnection = kco,
     fields = kqo@fields,
     requestUrl = kqo@requestUrl,
     request = kqo@request,
diff --git a/man/KorAPQuery-class.Rd b/man/KorAPQuery-class.Rd
index 68d8907..c1fc185 100644
--- a/man/KorAPQuery-class.Rd
+++ b/man/KorAPQuery-class.Rd
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@
 \alias{show,KorAPQuery-method}
 \title{Class KorAPQuery}
 \usage{
-\S4method{initialize}{KorAPQuery}(.Object, request = NULL, vc = "",
-  totalResults = 0, nextStartIndex = 0, fields = c("corpusSigle",
-  "textSigle", "pubDate", "pubPlace", "availability", "textClass",
-  "snippet"), requestUrl = "", webUIRequestUrl = "",
-  apiResponse = NULL, hasMoreMatches = FALSE,
+\S4method{initialize}{KorAPQuery}(.Object, korapConnection = NULL,
+  request = NULL, vc = "", totalResults = 0, nextStartIndex = 0,
+  fields = c("corpusSigle", "textSigle", "pubDate", "pubPlace",
+  "availability", "textClass", "snippet"), requestUrl = "",
+  webUIRequestUrl = "", apiResponse = NULL, hasMoreMatches = FALSE,
   collectedMatches = NULL)
 
 \S4method{fetchNext}{KorAPQuery}(kqo, offset = kqo@nextStartIndex,
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
 \arguments{
 \item{.Object}{…}
 
+\item{korapConnection}{KorAPConnection object}
+
 \item{request}{query part of the request URL}
 
 \item{vc}{definition of a virtual corpus}