Brühl library
The Brühl Library was a building on the Brühl Terrace in Dresden . It was one of the so-called Brühl glories .
Before 1747, an existing building between the Brühl Garden and the Brühl Gallery was converted by Johann Christoph Knöffel into an initially single-storey library for Count Heinrich von Brühl's book collection . A few years later, another floor was added - due to the rapidly growing stock.
Brühl began to build up the book collection in the mid-1730s, as evidenced by a list of books from 1738. By the outbreak of the Seven Years' War , the book collection had grown to around 72,000 volumes, but suffered heavy losses when Dresden was bombed in 1760. In 1768, at the behest of the electoral administrator, the Brühl's heirs acquired around 60,000 volumes for less than 50,000 thalers and transferred them to the electoral library .
The building, in front of which the Brühlsche Gartenpavillon stood on the Elbe side , was rebuilt by Johann Gottfried Kuntsch from 1789 to 1791 so that the art academy could move in. In 1897, however, it was demolished and the secondary school was built in the same place.
literature
- Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
- Manfred Zumpe : The Brühl terrace in Dresden . Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-345-00207-8 .
Web links
- Floor plan of the Brühlsche Bibliothek (building f), and plan of the Brühlsche Terrasse around 1761 in the Deutsche Fotothek
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 12 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 26.5" E