Princely Schaumburg-Lippische court library
| Princely Schaumburg-Lippische court library | |
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 Buckeburg Castle
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| Duration | 35,000 volumes |
| Library type | Private library |
| place | Buckeburg |
| ISIL | DE-58 |
| operator | Schaumburg-Lippe House and Bückeburg State Archives |
| Website |
no own website, accessible via Lower Saxony State Archive - State Archive Bückeburg |
The Fürstlich Schaumburg-Lippische Hofbibliothek is one of the most important private libraries in Lower Saxony , both as a universal and regional library . As a historical aristocratic library, it is still owned by the Schaumburg-Lippische Princely House and is housed in Bückeburg Castle.
history
The library was originally created as the personal library of the sovereigns and not for representational purposes or for the public. The exact founding date of the library is therefore not known. The oldest known evidence from the files of the princely house archive is dated before 1500. Already Otto IV. Of Holstein-Schaumburg had its own collection of books. Another point of reference is an inventory of the estate from 1635, which lists around 225 early prints.
In the course of its history, the building up and maintenance of the library's holdings were strongly influenced by the education of the respective owners as well as by their personal and therefore very different interests. The currents of the respective epoch and personalities associated with the Princely House also influenced the selection of new acquisitions.
Albrecht Wolfgang Graf zu Schaumburg-Lippe , who z. B. corresponded with Voltaire , Friedrich II. Of Prussia and Eberhard David Hauber , the library continuously expanded to 3,500 volumes.
The private library of Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy at Rinteln University, Thomas Abbt , who later worked as a consistorial councilor in Bückeburg and died there in 1766, dates from the reign of Count Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst zu Schaumburg-Lippe . Just like Abbts books, the library of the former military academy on Wilhelmstein was taken over into the holdings of the court library with around 450 books after the school was closed. Princess Juliane von Hessen-Philippsthal , who ruled in Schaumburg-Lippe from 1787 to 1799, again set her own priorities in art and music. Overall, an important part of the history of the Schaumburg-Lippischen Princely House is reflected in the library.
According to a public announcement in the Schaumburg-Lippische state advertisements, the court library had been open to the public since July 7, 1799, i. That is, the books could be borrowed.
In the two handwritten lending journals still available for the period from 1914 to 1927, u. a. well-known personalities like Lulu von Strauss and Torney as regular readers. The poet Adolf Holst , primarily known as a children's book author and illustrator, managed the court library from 1915 to 1918.
In 1929, the last full-time librarian employed by the Princely Court Chamber died . This meant that loans were initially only possible in special cases. From 1930 the inventory was no longer systematically expanded. Various efforts by the Schaumburg-Lippische Heimatverein and the local bookstore Frommhold to make the library accessible to the public again afterwards were unsuccessful.
In October 1966, the administration and maintenance of the library was contractually transferred to the Bückeburg State Archives . Since then, the holdings can be viewed for scientific purposes in the reading room of the State Archives in Bückeburg. A library database is available there for research. The court library is connected to the national and international interlibrary loan system.
Stocks
The library comprises around 35,000 volumes; this includes u. a. around 7,000 dissertations (including around 650 dissertations from the former University of Rinteln ), around 120 manuscripts (mainly by members of the Princely House), 10 incunabula with a total of 18 titles and around 1000 maps. The majority of the book collection comes from the 18th and 19th centuries.
As a regional historical focus, the court library contains a larger collection of books on a wide variety of topics from and about the Schaumburg area as well as publications by people, institutions and publishers from the region. In addition, there are printed publications by and about members of the Princely House, so-called occasional publications .
The library suffered major losses u. a. through a donation from Georg Wilhelm zu Schaumburg-Lippe , who gave the Bückeburg grammar school in 1842 about 250 older school books. The musicological department was initially transferred to the Princely Musicological Institute founded by Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe in Bückeburg in 1917 and, after its dissolution in 1936, transferred to the Reich Institute for German Music Research in Berlin. In the 1920s u. a. the entire collection of funeral sermons was sold to the Berlin State Library .
literature
- Rainer Schmidt: Princely Schaumburg-Lippische court library. In: Maria Haldenwanger (Hrsg.): Precious items in libraries in Lower Saxony. (= mbmagazin. Special issue 100). Working Group of Libraries in Lower Saxony, Hanover 1995, pp. 10–12. ISSN 0940-0133 .
- Hans-Peter Schramm: Schaumburg Libraries in Early Modern Times and Modern Times. In: Hubert Höing (Hrsg.): On the history of education and training in Schaumburg. (= Schaumburger studies. 69). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89534-699-6 , pp. 574-585.
Web links
- Entry in the online edition of the handbook of historical book collections .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gunhild Nothhoff: Princely Schaumburg-Lippe court library . In: Handbook of the historical book collections .
- ↑ Catalogus librorum quos bibliotheca illustrissimi comitis ac domini Alberti Wolfgangi SRI comitis a Schaumburg Lippe et Sternberg… 1734.
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '32 " N , 9 ° 2' 37" E