Commerce library
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| founding | January 26, 1735 |
| Duration | 180,000 media units |
| Library type | Business library |
| place | Hamburg |
| ISIL | DE-205 |
| Website | https://www.hk24.de/servicemarken/ueber_uns/hk_gruppe/commerzbibliothek |
The Commerzbibliothek is the oldest business library in the world and is part of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce . Since it was founded in 1735, it has been a publicly accessible library with reference and lending holdings. Readers can all be Hamburgers and "non-Hamburgers".
history
The Commerzbibliothek was founded on January 26, 1735 by members of the Commerzdeputation. The basic idea behind the establishment of the library was to expand the level of knowledge of Hamburg merchants and to enable comprehensive training and further education. At the beginning of the library's history, atlases and travelogues as well as books on foreign coins, measures / weights, geography and maritime and international law formed the basis of the library.
The first book purchases were made in 1736. The “newest and most useful books dealing with commerce and navigation” were to be purchased, and a year later the official rooms in Libra were occupied. In this year the acquisition of atlases, port plans, sea charts, travelogues, Hamburgensien began . From 1748 all books were bound in brown calfskin; the well-known Hamburg copperplate engraver Franz Nikolaus Rolffsen was commissioned to make an ex-libris to identify the books .
A first catalog of the Commerzbibliothek appeared in 1750 in 100 copies, it is one of the first printed catalogs ever. In 1755 it was first found that two books were missing. A blacksmith was commissioned to design a stamp that was printed as a supralibros on the cover. In 1767, construction work began to expand the scale by Ernst Georg Sonnin , which was completed in 1770. In this context, the Swedish Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden and other princes and princes visited the library.
In 1792 the library was first referred to as the "Commerzbibliothek". In 1794 she received a fixed budget for the first time. As early as 1797, the library was open several hours a day. In 1811, space problems led to the logist Johann Georg Mönckeberg keeping some of the 12,000 books at home for 500 marks per year in banco rent.
The move to the first floor of the new stock exchange took place in 1841, where the library, whose holdings had now grown to 25,000 volumes, was furnished entirely according to the English model. The Commerzbibliothek survived the great fire of 1842 with only 16 volumes lost. These were lost in the apartments of their borrowers. No replacement was provided.
Due to the construction of the electric city and suburban railway , the library temporarily moved to the professors' houses on Domstraße in 1908. By 1912 the inventory had risen to 120,000 volumes. Another move took place in 1919 to the old Johanneum at Speersort .
From 1920 onwards, inflation made it much more difficult to buy books. Although entrepreneurs donated 120,000 marks, the situation was difficult. However, they did not want to introduce fees. The 200th anniversary of the library in 1935 was honored with a special edition of the “ Wissbyschen Waterrecht ” and a coffee table in the Ratsweinkeller .
On the night of the bombing on July 25, 1943, 94 percent of the books in the Commerzbibliothek that had already been packed for evacuation were burned; the total loss was put at 3,103,000 marks. The library moved back to the stock exchange building, where it was not refurbished until 1962. Nine days after opening, the 1962 storm surge flooded the new storage rooms. Despite a quick rescue operation, numerous valuable books were damaged.
In 1996 the reading room was rebuilt and an IT catalog was introduced.
The Commerzbibliothek has been the university library of the HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration since 2004 .
The library's historical safe holdings have been managed by the Hanseatisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Foundation since 2008 .
By 2009 the inventory had grown to 180,000 books. A fault in the sprinkler system on the roof of the Chamber of Commerce caused 25,000 liters of water to run into the magazine and damaged 5,000 volumes. After the successful renovation of the reading room , the library has been open again with extended opening times since mid-June 2011. Due to further water damage in the storage rooms, further renovation work began in August 2011 in order to protect the historical holdings of the library over the long term.
On December 22, 2017, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg officially announced in accordance with Section 17 (1) of the Cultural Property Protection Act (KGSG) of July 31, 2016 (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 1914) that it had initiated a procedure to register the Commerzbibliothek's holdings (including of the historical safe stock) in the register of nationally valuable cultural assets.
Duration
The Commerzbibliothek is a scientific library with a stock of around 180,000 volumes. The inventory includes monographs, annual reports, statistics, commemorative publications, loose-leaf publications and magazines. Due to its rich history, there are still valuable books, writings and magazines from the 14th to 19th centuries in the inventory, some of which have been transferred to the Hanseatisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Foundation since 2008. These holdings can still be used in the reading room of the Commerzbibliothek.
Collecting areas
The focus of the Commerzbibliothek's collection is practice-oriented literature relevant to the Hamburg location ( Hamburgensien ). Readers will also find literature on foreign trade, especially literature from the chambers of commerce abroad (especially lists of members).
Thematic compilation of the main focus areas:
- Environment and energy,
- Port and logistics,
- Shipping,
- Vocational training / further education,
- Internet and IT,
- Trade and services,
- Sales / Purchasing,
- Marketing, advertising, PR,
- Foreign trade,
- Management,
- Corporate fonts,
- Business reports from companies in northern Germany,
- Arbitration,
- CSR (culture, sport),
- Business start-up,
- Commercial law,
- Finance (stock exchange, banks, insurance),
- Taxes,
- Health economy,
- Economic policy, infrastructure, location policy,
- Sample contract,
- Quality control,
- Tourism and gastronomy,
- Chamber of Commerce publications,
- Special hamburgs,
- Company celebrations.
literature
- Friedrich Lorenz Hoffmann: The Commerz Library in Hamburg. In: Serapeum , Jg. 1849, pp. 129–144 ( digitized version in the German Digital Library )
- Tanja Lutz: Services and organization of the Commerzbibliothek Hamburg. Hamburg 1996.
- Peter Rau: The Commerce Library: its uses, its treasures . In: Kunstsinn und Kaufmannsgeist. Hamburg 2005, pp. 144–159.
- Eduard Rosenbaum : The Commerzbibliothek zu Hamburg: Europe's oldest business library. For the North German broadcaster Hamburg on February 18, 1933.
- 250 years of the Commerzbibliothek of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce: 1735–1985. Christians, Hamburg 1985.
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '58.7 " N , 9 ° 59' 26.6" E