Antiquarian bookshop on Burgplatz

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The Spitzwegeck

The antiquarian bookshop on Burgplatz in Braunschweig , also called Spitzwegeck after Carl Spitzweg's painting The Bookworm , has existed there since 1949. With a floor space of around 8 m², it is the smallest antiquarian bookshop in Germany. It is located to the left of the entrance to Dankwarderode Castle .

history

Antiquarian bookshop Scholz (1895–1945)

The origins of the bookstore go back to the Königslutter- born antiquarian and writer Wilhelm Scholz , a long-time friend of Wilhelm Raabe , and to the year 1895. That year, Scholz opened a bookstore with an attached antiquarian bookshop at Ehrenbrechtstrasse 4, near the State Theater . In January 1930 he sold the business for 8,000 Reichsmarks to his colleague Bernhard Schütte (1902-1993), who continued it under the same name until the building was destroyed in World War II .

Antiquariat Scholz (1949–1992)

entrance
inside view
Dankwarderode Castle ; the second-hand bookshop is barely visible to the left of the main entrance.

Having returned from a brief captivity, Schütte soon found out that it was not possible to rebuild the bookstore at the old location. He initially operated a book swap shop on Schuhstrasse until, soon after the currency reform, the Braunschweig state curator Kurt Seeleke offered him a new location on the west side of Dankwarderode Castle, next to its main entrance. After an old cellar entrance was filled in, the small bookstore, as it can still be seen today, was built within a few weeks.

Imminent closure

1985, in the preparatory phase of the state exhibition "City in Transition", the castle was to be thoroughly renovated and any remaining war damage removed. To this end, the organizers of the exhibition decided to equip the entire castle during the several months of renovation and restoration work and to close it to the public. For the second-hand bookshop this would have meant the economic end. However, following public protests, access to the second-hand bookshop was also kept open during the construction work - a circumstance that ultimately made Schütte's bookstore known nationwide and even abroad.

Antiquariat Fuhrmann (since 1992)

In January 1992, the 90-year-old Bernhard Schütte sold his antiquarian bookshop and book inventory to his successor Jürgen Fuhrmann. Schütte died soon afterwards. The Fuhrmann antiquarian bookshop still exists today at its old location.

literature

  • Ernst Bergfeld : antiquarian and writer. On the 20th anniversary of Wilhelm Scholz's death (1863–1939) , in: Circle of Friends of the Great Orphanage , No. 27, Braunschweig 1959, pp. 9–11
  • Heinz Eichhorn: Bernhard Schütte - From the life of the oldest Braunschweig bookseller in the smallest antiquarian bookshop in the Federal Republic , in: Braunschweigischer Kalender 1989 , p. 36–38, Verlag Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 1988

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Heinz Eichhorn: Bernhard Schütte - From the life of the oldest Braunschweig bookseller in the smallest antiquarian bookshop in the Federal Republic , in: Braunschweigischer Kalender 1989 , Verlag Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 1988, p. 36
  2. ^ Ernst Bergfeld: Antiquarian and writer. On the 20th anniversary of Wilhelm Scholz's death (1863–1939) , in: Circle of Friends of the Great Orphanage , Issue 27, Braunschweig 1959, p. 9
  3. ^ Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweigs Straßen - their names and their stories, Volume 1: Innenstadt , Cremlingen 1995, p. 101
  4. ↑ a b Braunschweiger Zeitung of January 16, 1992: "Handover in the antiquarian bookshop on Burgplatz"
  5. ^ Heinz Eichhorn: Bernhard Schütte - From the life of the oldest Braunschweig bookseller in the smallest antiquarian bookshop in the Federal Republic , in: Braunschweigischer Kalender 1989 , Verlag Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 1988, p. 38

Web links

Commons : Antiquariat am Burgplatz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 53 "  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 27"  E