General Reading Society Basel

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The Allgemeine Lesegesellschaft Basel (ALG) is a reading society in the Swiss city of Basel and today has over 1000 members.

history

The reading society was founded in 1787 and already had prominent members with Peter Ochs as the first governor. Since 1832 the company has been located on Münsterplatz in the former canon house, which was then extensively renovated in the neo-Gothic style. The plans for the renovation came from Johann Friedrich Huber , the locksmith work was carried out by Heinrich Ludwig Schlöth .

The ALG now houses, among other things, an open access library with over 75,000 volumes.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. Reading Society Basel - Who we are , accessed on March 15, 2017
  2. ^ Doris Huggel: The house of the general reading society in Basel. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 598). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1996, ISBN 978-3-85782-598-9 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '24.8 "  N , 7 ° 35' 31.9"  E ; CH1903:  611 560  /  two hundred and sixty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty-four