Eutin State Library
| Eutin State Library | |
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 The Eutin State Library in the Kavalierhaus on Schlossplatz
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| founding | 1837 |
| Duration | 70,000 volumes from the 16th to 20th centuries |
| Library type | Regional library |
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Eutin 
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| ISIL | DE-138 (Eutin State Library) |
| operator | Eutin State Library Foundation |
| management | Frank Baudach |
| Website | www.lb-eutin.de |
The Eutin State Library is a regional research library in the East Holstein district town of Eutin .
history
Today's Eutin State Library was created as the court library of the bishops of Lübeck, who have resided in Eutin since the Middle Ages . The Diocese of Lübeck was united with the Counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst to form the Duchy of Oldenburg in 1773 . The Eutin court had its heyday in the 18th century. The library was expanded considerably during this time and contained around 6,000 volumes at the beginning of the 19th century.
In 1816 it was combined with two civic collections, the 2000 volume bibliophile collection of the Kiel captain August Moritz Appenfelder (1740-1818) and the 8000 volume library of the Oldenburg lawyer and writer Gerhard Anton von Halem (1752-1819). On the initiative of the enlightened Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Oldenburg , his son, Grand Duke Paul Friedrich August , opened it to the public in 1837 together with the school library of the Eutin grammar school built by Johann Heinrich Voss as the “Grand Ducal Public Library”.
In the course of the 19th century, the library grew again through private donations, including 550 volumes by Georg Heinrich Ludwig Nicolovius (1767–1839), honorary member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts from 1813, and an exchange of doublets with the Oldenburg State Library . For a long time the rector of the school of scholars was also the head of the library.
After the First World War and the collapse of the monarchy, the library became the property of the new Oldenburg state in 1918 and was named "Eutin State Library". Due to the Greater Hamburg Law , it became the property of the now Prussian district of Eutin in 1937 . The development towards a modern public library, which has been evident since the 1920s, culminated in the opening of a “Volksbücherei department” in the state library in 1938, against which the historical inventory was increasingly forgotten.
After the Second World War, the library was reopened as a public library under the name Eutin District Library . The historical book inventory was continued in it as the "State Library Department", but used less and less. It was not until the 1980s that awareness of its importance was again increased. In 1987 this led to the organizational outsourcing of the old holdings from the district library under the name "Eutiner Landesbibliothek". In 1988, with funds from the Ostholstein district and the state of Schleswig-Holstein, the expansion of the historical library into a modern research library began, which in 1994 moved from the district library to the converted and restored Kavalierhaus on Eutiner Schlossplatz.
Duration
The inventory currently comprises around 70,000 volumes as well as special collections ( autographs , maps , prints , music , press prints ) from the 16th to the 20th century. The focus is on the literature of the Enlightenment period : fiction , travelogues and geography, almanacs and calendars , political literature and works from the circle of the most important Eutin writers Johann Heinrich Voss and Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg . The character of the former court library is evident in a large number of representative, magnificent works. A special feature is the Russian literature, which came to Eutin due to the dynastic relationship between the Eutin court and the Russian tsarist house. In addition, the regional literature about Ostholstein, especially about the former Eutinian area, is almost completely available.
working area
The work of the library today is concentrated on three areas that emerge from the collection priorities that have evolved over time:
- Historical travel literature and travel culture research
- Regional literary history around the Eutin literati of the 18th century
- Regional history of East Holstein
Historical travel literature and travel culture research
The relatively high proportion of travel reports from the 17th to 19th Century in the historical inventory led to the establishment of the Eutin research center for historical travel culture . As a scientific service facility, it collects travel literature and related material from the early modern period to the present day and makes these bibliographical and content accessible in specialist databases. On the other hand, the focus is on the provision of bibliographical and technical information, the promotion of scientific exchange through the organization of conferences and the publication of research results.
Eutin literary history
Another central area of work is the support of literary-historical research on the writers residing in Eutinian, especially at the end of the 18th century, in particular on Johann Heinrich Voss and Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg . In this area, the library works closely with the Johann Heinrich Voss Society .
Regional history of East Holstein
The library is not a state library in the narrower sense: In Schleswig-Holstein, the collection and development of regional literature is done centrally by the Schleswig-Holstein State Library in Kiel. At the same time, the library is the contact point for local researchers and regional historians due to the almost complete existing literature on Ostholstein. In this area, she works with the neighboring Ostholstein Museum and the Eutin home association .
Sponsorship and funding
The Eutin State Library is a foundation library. In 1975 the newly established cultural foundation of the Ostholstein district, the foundation for the promotion of culture and adult education in Ostholstein, took over the sponsorship of the former district library. Since this cultural foundation had hardly any income of its own, the financing of the library remained largely dependent on the Ostholstein district . From 1988, the state of Schleswig-Holstein took on a smaller share of the costs of the new Eutin state library, which fell over the years.
The district's debt, which has been increasing rapidly since the mid-1990s, led to a reorganization of the foundation structure in 2006/07. The Eutin State Library was separated from the Ostholstein District Cultural Foundation. The sponsor was the newly established Eutin State Library Foundation in 2007. Shortly before that, the Sparkasse Holstein founded the Sparkasse Foundation Eutiner Landesbibliothek in 2006 , which since then has given the library substantial financial support as a sponsorship foundation. This double foundation structure ensured that the library was preserved.
literature
- Frank Baudach (Ed.): Knowledge and Preservation. Contributions to regional cultural history and the history of the Eutin State Library. Festschrift for Ingrid Bernin-Israel, Eutin State Library, Eutin 2003 (Eutin Research, Volume 9), ISBN 3-9808529-1-1 .
- H .: The Grand Ducal Public Library in Eutin. In: Serapeum , Vol. 12 (1851), p. 124 ( digitized version ).
- Wilfried Lagler: From the history of the Eutin regional library, in: Yearbook for local history Eutin, vol. 20 (1986), pp. 68–72.
- Corinna Roeder: The public libraries in Oldenburg and Eutin . In: Jörgen Welp (Red.): Dedicated to the well-being of Oldenburg: Aspects of the cultural and social work of the House of Oldenburg, 1773–1918 (= publications of the Oldenburg landscape . Vol. 9). Edited by the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 2004, ISBN 3-89995-142-5 , p. 151 ff.
- Margarete Walter: From the history of the Eutin district library. struve-druck, Eutin 1980.
Web links
- Eutin State Library
- Entry in the handbook of historical book collections
- Savings Banks Foundation Eutin State Library