Francisceum Library
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| founding | 1582 |
| Duration | 42,000 volumes |
| Library type | Specialized scientific library |
| place | Zerbst / Anhalt |
| ISIL | DE-Ze1 (Francisceums library) |
| operator | Anhalt-Bitterfeld district |
| management | Iruta Völlger, Petra Volger |
| Website | Anhalt-bitterfeld.de |
The Francisceumsbibliothek is a publicly accessible scientific specialist library ( reference library ) in Zerbst / Anhalt . It is spatially and historically closely connected to the Francisceum and actually its grammar school library .
history
In 1582 the high school illustrious Anhaltinum was founded in the Franciscan monastery Zerbst, which was founded in 1235 and closed in 1526 . This was a small state university for the training of theologians and lawyers for all of Anhalt . This also included a printer for printing speeches, disputations and school publications. Their prints, together with purchases, book donations and some remnants probably still from the monastery library, formed the basis of the Bibliotheca Gymnasii Servestani ( library of the Zerbster grammar school ).
During this time the library grew mainly through donations and bequests. In addition to the Anhalt princes, the founders included principally rectors, professors and former students, such as the first rector Gregor Bersman (1538–1611), the Zerbst superintendent Wolfgang Amling (1542–1606), Albert Voit († 1606), of the 22 volumes from the library of his father David Voit (1530–1589) donated, Professor Heinrich Kitsch and Samuel Fabricius (1577–1625), who donated 140 volumes. In 1626 the library was damaged by looting during the Thirty Years War. After that it had an inventory of about 400 to 500 volumes.
- Benefactor
Gregor Bersmann
David Voit
Wolfgang Amling
Friedrich Ludwig Schardius
Heinrich Brunn
Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz
One of the great donations of the 18th century was that of the Dessau President Johann Georg von Raumer (1671–1728). In 1714 he bequeathed the family library with more than 1000 old volumes of books originally created by his grandfather and Dessau Superintendent and Consistorial Councilor Georg Raumer . His adoptive father Friedrich Amadeus Gottlieb von Raumer (1642–1728) followed suit a year later and bequeathed his entire library to the Francisceum as well. The mayor of Zerbst, Christian August Schmidt, bequeathed his entire book estate, comprising 2,933 volumes, to the Bibliotheek. In 1785 the catalog was able to record a stock of 7133 titles, of which, however, a large part was sold at an auction on March 23, 1785, so that the volume was reduced to approx. 2600 volumes.
At this point in time, the Illustre grammar school was already in decline, which was accelerated by the extinction of the Zerbst Princely House in 1793 and the transition to Anhalt-Dessau and which led to the institution being closed in 1798.
Prince Leopold III opened in the rooms . Friedrich Franz von Dessau founded a humanistic grammar school in 1803, which was named Francisceum in 1836 . Today's line-up of the library goes back to this re-establishment. For this, a vaulted hall on the first floor was equipped with simple pointed arch shelves. The library also received the holdings of the St. Bartholomäi Abbey and its school, which was repealed in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 . There were around 2500 volumes of various origins, including 67 volumes from the Nienburg monastery . In 1812 the Zerbst council library was incorporated. In 1813 there was a war-related sale of 74 books, mostly incunabula, to the Russian general Jan Pieter van Suchtelen while the Russian military was billeted at the school.
The library received further growth through donations from Friedrich Ludwig Schardius ( Schardiana , especially publications of the Russian Academy of Sciences ) and Karl Sintenis ( Sinteniana ). Alumni such as Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel , Heinrich Ritter and Heinrich Brunn and the publisher Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz also thought of the library. In the first half of the 20th century, the reference library of Prof. Georg Glöckner (1844–1924), 1000 volumes on regional history from the estate of Hermann Laundry and the library from Easter 1939, which was combined with the Francisceum in Zerbst, were added.
The Francisceum survived the air raid on April 16, 1945 and the subsequent fire, which led to the extensive destruction of Zerbst. The then director of the Francisceum, Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Franz Münnich (Rector from 1927 to 1945), who in the 1930s had developed a system that is still valid today, managed to protect the library from looting and loss. In contrast to many other historical high school libraries, the Francisceums library remained in place undamaged. Until 1991 it was run as the scientific department of the Zerbst City and District Library .
In the course of the restoration of the high school Francisceum (in the GDR extended high school Albert Kuntz ) the library was named Francisceumsbibliothek and its current form of organization was sponsored by the district. She is looked after by two qualified librarians.
Stocks
The library has approx. 42,000 volumes with approx. 32,700 titles, which are divided into 23 subject groups. The oldest piece is a parchment manuscript from the 10th century with the Regula Pastoralis of Pope Gregory I and the enarrationes in psalmos of St. Augustine of Hippo . It is one of the pieces from the Nienburg monastery. 74 volumes, including 70 from the St. Bartholomew Library, are incunabula and 3900 titles from the 16th century. The largest subject group is that of the Anhaltines on state history with approx. 2150 titles in 8500 volumes. In addition to important holdings in theology, including Reformation writings, philology and history, personal publications (75 folios and 31 quarto volumes with funeral and ceremonial speeches as well as Carmina on members of Anhalt royal houses) and 876 funeral sermons form a special collection. The library also has a historical map collection with around 300 maps and 50 atlases up to 1800. From the music collection (319 titles), 40 from the 16th century from the Bartholomäus library are particularly significant.
Biblia Latina (1481)
literature
- Franz Münnich: The library of the Francisceum to Zerbst. Contributions to their history and existence. In: Zerbst Jahrbuch. 15 (1930) pp. 4-88.
Web links
- Entry in the handbook of the historical book collections online
Individual evidence
- ↑ All numbers after entry in the manual of the historical book collections online
- ↑ See manuscript census of the smaller collections in the eastern federal states of Germany: Inventory of the former work center "Central inventory of medieval manuscripts up to 1500 in the collections of the GDR" (ZIH). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04365-2 , p. 241.
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 8.2 " N , 12 ° 5 ′ 28.7" E