Iron library

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Iron library
Iron Library in Spring.jpg

Iron Library in Spring

founding 1948
Library type Special library
place Schlatt
ISIL CH-000728-7 (Klostergut Paradies)
Website www.eisenbibliothek.ch

The iron library is located in Schlatt and is a foundation of Georg Fischer AG in Schaffhausen . This international meeting place for research on the history of technology occupies a prominent position among scientific and technical libraries worldwide. The library in the Klostergut Paradies offers bibliophile treasures from old and new times. Around 40,000 current and historical books and magazines on the material iron and everything that goes with it in a broad environment are available for free use.

history

The Iron Library Foundation was founded in December 1948 on the initiative of Ernst Müller-Reiffer (1885–1957), then delegate of the administrative board of Georg Fischer AG (GF). The foundation of the new library was formed by the private library that Müller had built up over decades, with new and old literature on the most important industrial activities of the GF group, which supports the foundation financially.

Duration

Iron library, Ernst Müller room
Treasury of the iron library

The iron library owns the fundamental works of European specialist literature on iron and the related fields of knowledge from numerous countries and in various languages. The library continuously acquires current and historical literature.

The inventory includes monographs on iron extraction and processing, archeology, history of technology and transport, architecture, art history and ironwork, economic and social history, mechanical and bridge construction, militaria, civil engineering, shipbuilding, geosciences, physics, chemistry, mining and Mining law, mineralogy and metallurgy, metallurgy and materials testing.

The large encyclopedias and lexicons of the 18th and 19th centuries are also represented with their first editions. From 1794 the magazine department offers around 700 different series. Around 2500 work and anniversary publications from companies in the iron industry document international economic history.

The iron library has been a member of the Plastics Historical Society (London) and the German Society for the History of Plastics (Bayreuth) since 2014 . This is related to the new focus of the collection “Plastics”, which is intended to supplement the previous focus on iron / steel / history of technology.

Manuscripts, incunabula and rarities

Aristotle Albertus Magnus manuscript

The iron library owns important manuscripts and books, some of which are presented on a pre-booked tour. This includes

use

The iron library is a reference library ; For conservation reasons, the works cannot be borrowed, but can be viewed on site. In the vestibule of the Ernst Müller room there is a Winterthur faience - tiled stove from 1653 by the potter and painter Hans Heinrich II Graf, there is also a WLAN hotspot.

Publications

  • Annual report. Schlatt, 2014-, ZDB -ID 27715802
  • Once a year the journal Ferrum: News from the Iron Library, a foundation of Georg Fischer AG, is published primarily with scientific articles on iron from the industrial, economic and technological history. ZDB -ID 224903-0 , digital: ZDB -ID 2719795-5

See also

Web links

Commons : Iron Library  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Annual report 2014 (PDF) p. 21
  2. ^ Aristoteles Albertus Magnus manuscript. e-codices, accessed September 23, 2015 .
  3. A. Zimmermann (Ed.): The Cologne University in the Middle Ages: Spiritual Roots and Social Reality (Miscellanea Mediaevalia) . De Gruyter, Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-11-012148-3 , pp. 103 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 4 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 33"  E ; CH1903:  692894  /  282268