Ashbook

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Aschebuch or Brandbuch is the name for one of the approximately 25,000 book remains that were recovered from the rubble after the fire in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar on September 2, 2004. The remains of these books contain an estimated 1.2 million leaves worth preserving. Typically, an ash book shows strong charring and ashing on its outer layers of paper and leaf edges .

The recovered units, some of which are also known as “fire books”, were named “ash books” in 2004 by the Leipzig-based bookkeeping center. As a result, the choice of words quickly developed into a concept of understanding and as an auxiliary term for the first damage groupings also for documents from other disasters. As ash books, for example, also originally from were now State Archives Dusseldorf originating " Kahn filing " means that for the purpose of outsourcing of archival materials in the course of shipment to the then lower MS Main 68 by the 14 March 1945 bombing of Hannover in Lindener port partially are burned.

Ash books have been treated in a newly established restoration workshop in the Legefeld district of Weimar since 2008 . There, a technology based essentially on new developments is used for volume restoration.

literature

  • Günter Müller, Magdalena Izdebska, Johanna Kraemer: The Weimar Ash Books , in Jürgen Weber , Ulrike Hähner (eds.): Restoring after the fire. The rescue of the books of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library , accompanying document to the exhibition of the same name in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library from August 30, 2014 to August 9, 2015, ed. on behalf of the Klassik-Stiftung Weimar / Herzogin-Anna-Amalia-Bibliothek and the University of Applied Science and Art Hildesheim, Petersberg: Imhof, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7319-0063-4 , pp. 132-138

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b dpa / th: Thuringia / Exhibition: Ash books from Duchess Anna Amalia Library , article on welt.de on October 9, 2018, last accessed on October 25, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d o. V .: Glossary / Aschebuch , article on blog.klassik-stiftung.de from September 11, 2014, last accessed on October 25, 2019