Princely Waldeck Court Library
The Fürstlich Waldecksche Hofbibliothek in Bad Arolsen ( Waldeck ) is a private library of the historical aristocratic library type .
The “Foundation of the Princely House of Waldeck and Pyrmont” is the sponsor and owner of the library in Arolsen Castle . It can be used on site or in the Kassel University Library .
The 35,000 volumes are mainly from the period before 1840 and represent a valuable old stock . The library contains literature from the 18th century on almost all fields of knowledge relevant at the time, with a focus on the subjects of general, geography, history, literature and militaria. The 400 works, manuscripts and prints that came into the possession of the princely house during the secularization of the Augustinian canons of Volkhardinghausen in 1576 can be considered the basic inventory of the library .
A Society of Friends of the Court Library Arolsen eV has existed since 1988 with the aim of promoting the court library as a meeting place in Waldeck in the field of cultural and intellectual history, mainly from the 18th century.
As part of a DFG project at the University of Kassel , the library's holdings were indexed, partially digitized and made freely accessible.
Graphics
Graphics from the adhesive tape no. 18
Graphic from tape no.14
Web links
- DFG project Fürstenbibliothek Arolsen: Digital Library. uni-kassel.de(digitalcopies ofthe inventory).
Individual evidence
- ^ The Arolsen Princely Library as a cultural and knowledge space. uni-kassel.de, accessed on March 2, 2020 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 49.7 " N , 9 ° 1 ′ 16.6" E