Speyer Diocesan Library
| Library of the Episcopal Seminary of St. German | |
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| Duration | 200,000 |
| Library type | Special library |
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Speyer 
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| ISIL | DE-Sp2 |
| operator | Diocese of Speyer |
The Speyer Diocesan Library , i.e. the library of the Catholic Diocese of Speyer , is the library of the Episcopal Seminary St. German , Speyer. It has (2010) around 200,000 volumes and media, holds over 300 magazines and is located in the south of Speyer near the seminary, Am Germansberg 60. The library is open to the public.
history
The library was only built after the reestablishment of the Speyer diocese in 1817.
The immediate predecessor library, the library of the Bruchsal seminary founded by Bishop Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn , had passed into the possession of the Baden state in 1804 in the course of secularization .
One of the oldest holdings is a gift from the Bavarian King Max I Joseph from 1825, a collection of thirty-five choir books from the Mainz Cathedral Treasury as well as some incunabula and numerous prints from the 16th century.
The increased demand for books that arose with the re-establishment of the seminary in 1827 was initially only covered by donations. Major donors were Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser (1780–1851; converted to Catholicism in 1814); Damian Hugo Philipp Graf von und zu Lehrbach (1738–1815; Jesuit until 1773, benefactor of the Speyer Cathedral); Franz Xaver Remling (1803–1873; cathedral chapter , historian of the Speyer bishops and the diocese); Johannes Weber (1879–1916; priest of the Speyer diocese, most recently pastor in Billigheim); Ludwig Andreas Laforet (Regens at the seminary from 1855 to 1879, from 1858 cathedral chapter) and Philipp Dhom (Regens at the seminary Speyer from 1879 to 1886, from 1870 cathedral chapter). Book donations and bequests have long been the basis for expanding the holdings. Only in the middle of the 20th century was a purchase budget available for the planned expansion of the holdings.
In 1956, when the library moved into its own building in the new building of the seminary on Germannsberg, it had over 25,000 volumes. The steady growth was taken into account in 1975 with an extension. At this point the collection had grown to 57,000 volumes. The extension, equipped with compact systems, also accommodated Maria Rosenberg's library , where the seminary was housed from 1933 to 1941, as well as the reference library of the Episcopal Ordinary.
Special stocks
The oldest incunable is Thomas Aquinas Scriptum super quarto libro sententarium, printed in Venice in 1491 . The library has a total of 21 incunabula.
A special work is one of the only five copies of the oldest Palatinate hymnbook that have survived worldwide, the “ Old Catholische Geistliche Kirchengeseng auff die fürnemste Feste ” printed in Cologne in 1599 . The hymn book contains a total of 159 church hymns on 490 pages, including the well-known song " Es ist ein Ros' sprung ", which appears in this hymn book for the first time.
In 2000 the diocesan library received the facsimile collection of over four hundred volumes from the estate of the Cologne theologian , classical philologist and German scholar Johannes Rathofer (1925–1998), today known as the Rathofer Collection .
Necrology
For historical research purposes, the Speyer seminary and the connected diocesan library also operate the online necrology , which is freely accessible to everyone , in which all clergymen who have come from the new diocese of Speyer (since 1821) or who previously worked here, deceased are recorded. In addition, many photos of the people were painstakingly collected (from death slips, parish archives, etc.) and digitized and made accessible for the first time together. The online collection is constantly being supplemented and expanded. It represents a valuable aid for local historians and is unique in Germany in this form.
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- Official website, history sub-page
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Access to the online necrology of the Diocese of Speyer ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
