Baron Carl von Rothschild'sche public library
| Baron Carl von Rothschild'sche public library | |
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 First library building (right) in a newspaper
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| founding | 1887 |
| closure | 1945 |
| Duration | 75,000 |
| Library type | People's library |
| place |
Frankfurt am Main 
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| management | Christian Wilhelm Berghoeffer and Hannah Luise von Rothschild , Louise von Rothschild , Joachim Kirchner , Frankfurt University Library |
The Freiherrlich Carl von Rothschild'sche public library , from 1935 library for modern languages and music , was a library in Frankfurt am Main , which was founded in 1887 by Hannah Luise von Rothschild . After the Second World War , its holdings were transferred to the Frankfurt City and University Library .
history
The library was founded in 1887 by Hannah Luise von Rothschild. The name refers to her father Mayer Carl von Rothschild , who died in 1886.
The library was inaugurated on January 3, 1888. The library was founded as a public library based on the English model . It should be accessible to everyone free of charge. The library should address academically uneducated people, but also serve to provide academic instruction.
At first Hannah Luise von Rothschild ran the library with the librarian Christian Wilhelm Berghoeffer. Von Rothschild bore all costs until her death at the age of 41 in 1892. Her mother Louise von Rothschild and her sisters then donated the first building on Bethmannstrasse and 1,000,000 marks to the library . After the death of Louise von Rothschild in 1895, the sisters, who meanwhile lived abroad, transferred the family house at Untermainkai 15 to the library and expanded it according to the requirements. In 1905 the neighboring building was bought and the library expanded.
After the library lost its assets in the German inflation from 1914 to 1923 , the city of Frankfurt took over the library. It was incorporated into the city library as an independent department. The convinced National Socialist Joachim Kirchner became the leader .
From 1933 "non-German writings" were only awarded with evidence of a scientific purpose. On December 30, 1933, the library took on the name "Library for Modern Languages and Music (Baron Carl von Rothschild Library)". From November 1935 it was only called the “Library for Modern Languages and Music”. All references to the Rothschild family have been removed.
After the restructuring of the libraries in Frankfurt in October 1945, the library ceased to be independent. The holdings were incorporated into the city and university library , which has been operating as the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library since 2005 .
Duration
When it was founded, the library had 3500 volumes, including books for young people. In 1892 it already had 13,000 titles. Around a third of these titles were donated to the library. In 1915 the library had a total of 75,000 volumes, and by 1930 96,000 volumes. The volumes covered the subjects of art history , archeology , musicology , philosophy , folklore and comparative linguistics . Newspaper articles on the Rothschild family and the library were also collected.
use
The long opening times seven days a week and the low fee for which books could also be delivered to your home and picked up again had a positive effect on the number and type of users. In 1894 there was an average of 93 per day. 40% of the visitors were craftsmen and merchants, and a large number were women.
Web links
- 125 years of the Rothschild library. In: ub.uni-frankfurt.de. March 27, 2015, accessed on April 2, 2016 (history of the library on the website of the Frankfurt University Library).
- About the Rothschild Collection. In: ub.uni-frankfurt.de. Retrieved April 2, 2016 (scanned collection of various newspaper articles about the Rothschilds and the library).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Ludwig Heilbrunn: The foundation of the University of Frankfurt a. M. Josef Baer & Co., Frankfurt am Main June 1915, The Libraries, p. 73 ( online in the internet archive archive.org [accessed on September 2, 2015]).
- ↑ a b c d e f 125 years of the Rothschild library. In: ub.uni-frankfurt.de. March 27, 2015, accessed April 2, 2016 .
- ^ E. Bergmann: Frankfurter Gelehrten-Handbuch . Blazek & Bergmann, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 10 .