Cantonal library of Appenzell Ausserrhoden
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Headquarters of the Cantonal Library of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in the basement of the “Fünfeckpalast” at Landsgemeindeplatz 7
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| founding | 1896 |
| Duration | > 154,000 units (April 2020) |
| Library type | Scientific library |
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Trogen 
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| ISIL | CH-000095-1 |
| operator | Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden |
| management | Heidi Eisenhut |
| Website | www.ar.ch/kantonsbibliothek |
The Cantonal Library of Appenzell Ausserrhoden is the central collection and archive point for Appenzell-Extra-Rhodian media. It has the legal mandate of the most complete possible documentation and archiving of published and unpublished Ausserrhoder information carriers (Appenzellensia). These are in particular those that have appeared in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden , were written by people who are resident in the canton, or have the canton or its residents on the subject. The canton library also houses collections and bequests on Appenzell culture and history. It accepts documents from private individuals and from other libraries or institutions and guarantees long-term storage in a safe place.
The canton library of Appenzell Ausserrhoden is located at Landsgemeindeplatz 7 (pentagonal palace) and 1 (parish hall) in the center of Trogen .
history
The library was founded in 1896 and is based on a donation agreement from the municipality of Trogen to the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden on 16/20. August 1896.
Emergence
In its founding year, the canton library was able to take over a collection of books and manuscripts with 15,000–20,000 titles from the Trogen municipal library. This inventory had been created since the 1820s in the circle of the Appenzell-Patriotic and later the Appenzell non-profit society. By the middle of the 19th century, the library was expanded from the collections of Johann Conrad Honnerlag (1777–1838) , Johann Caspar Zellweger-Gessner (1768–1855) and Johann Jakob Frei (1789–1852) . In the transfer agreement to the canton it was stated that, should the cantonal library be relocated to another municipality, the books from the estate of Johann Jakob Frei and Johann Caspar Zellweger-Gessner would have to remain in Trogen. The first canton's librarian, Karl Ritter (1856–1899), died in office. He was succeeded by August Blatter (1875–1954), who introduced the card catalog during his short term in office until 1903.
20th century
Cantonal librarian Adam Marti (1857–1940) compiled a complete inventory for the first time. At the beginning of the 20th century, the library owned around 26,000 volumes and brochures, 300 volumes of manuscripts, 38 folders with maps and engravings, and 65 bundles of newspapers. Marti made a name for himself as an informant about the history of the country and Appenzell topics and personalities. In 1928 Albert Nägeli (1880–1958) became head of the cantonal library. His focus was on sifting through, organizing and cataloging the extensive collections of letters from Laurenz Zellweger , Johann Caspar Zellweger-Gessner and Johann Jakob Frei. During his tenure, the estate of weaver pastor Howard Eugster-Züst (1861–1932) was donated to the canton library; In 1972 further parts of this estate were added, in 2004 and 2007 the last private documents and pictures.
In 1953 the government council elected the first local cantonal librarian: Walter Schläpfer (1914–1991). During his tenure, Schläpfer wrote several standard works on the national, economic and press history of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. In the mid-1950s, the registration of around 25,000 items in the library in the card catalog was completed. The canton library realigned itself as a purely scientific library . In 1957 it came into the possession of the extensive book collection of the President of the Supreme Court and founder and President of Säntis-Schwebebahn AG , Carl Meyer (1873–1947) . After a major renovation in the main building of the canton library, the Trogen parish and parish house, which took place from 1975 to 1977, the former ballroom of the house was opened as an exhibition room on the third floor. In 1980 an exhibition was held there on the occasion of the 250th birthday of Salomon Gessner , friend of Laurenz Zellweger and father-in-law of Johann Caspar Zellweger-Gessner.
In 1986 Johannes Matthias Schläpfer-Wochner (* 1955) took over the management of the library. His term of office was characterized by the limited space available for years and renewed relocation of holdings. After the canton had acquired the Pentagon Palace, the former residential and commercial building of Dorothea and Johann Caspar Zellweger-Gessner, in 1991, the budget item for the provision of various rooms for the reception, the reading room, an office and the warehouse of the cantonal library on the ground floor was added in 1996 of the palace approved.
The move to the new premises took place in 1998. This year, canton librarian Matthias Weishaupt (* 1961) took up his post. For the first time he was able to create percentage jobs for a librarian and in 1999 for a research assistant. The focus of his tenure was on the EDP indexing of all books and brochures and the development of an electronic image database. The decision to join the St. Gallen library network SGBN, a catalog network, was made in 2000.
With various events on the Description de l'Égypte , the 25 text volumes and 900 large-format lithographs of the second edition of this monumental work published from 1821 to 1829, which was created following Napoleon's Egypt campaign and acquired by Johann Conrad Honnerlag (1777–1838) and immediately as « a Cheval de bataille for possible visits »had been given to the Trogen municipal library at the time, Weishaupt made one of the important special collections known to the public. Furthermore, under him the Carl Meyer collection was opened up with the publication of a catalog, the financing of the restoration of important portraits from the estate materials of the Zellweger and Honnerlag families and the initiation of the Trogen Library Talks, an interdisciplinary colloquium that took place in 2005, 2007 and 2009 and the handwritten ones Materials from the estate of the Zellweger family, especially Laurenz Zellweger, were on the subject.
21st century
Heidi Eisenhut (* 1976) has been running the library since October 2006. In 2020, the cantonal library will have 320 percent jobs, divided between five people. In addition, at least one person supports the team temporarily for a workload of 20 percent. The institution can also count on numerous voluntary employees, who are particularly involved in a project for the transcription of manuscripts and are on hand on cultural and historical tours in the village center of Trogen. The priorities in recent years have been the expansion of the collections of the canton library through the Collectio Magica et Occulta CMO (including valuable library and archive holdings from the previous holdings of Adalbert Schmid, E&E Geldmacher, Richard Butz, Kenneth Grant and Hanne Wildt), through the Steiger family archive, through the private archives of the musician, 1968 and freak Stefan Signer and the tattoo artist and life story collector Herbert Hoffmann as well as through the works bequests of the wood cutter Ruedi Peter, the graphic artist Ruedi Bannwart and Fred Bauer and the photographers Karl Wolf, Herbert Maeder and Paul Rüdlinger. In addition, the cantonal art collection was transferred to the collections of the canton library. It is gradually being expanded through new acquisitions under the direction of the Office for Culture Appenzell Ausserrhoden. Since 2011, the canton library's picture collection has been able to include 137 works by the Ausserrhode artist Hans Krüsi , the 800- plus works of the artist Gertrud Schwyzer, 350 drawings by Johann Ulrich Fitzi and 545 Artistamps stamp sheets by Mail-Art artist H. R. Fricker can be added.
A central focus of the development and communication work in the 21st century is publicizing the multifaceted holdings of the Zellweger family archive . The latest results of the work on this central collection are available in the “Century of the Zellweger” offer, which can be discovered in Trogen, as well as in the book published by Heidi Eisenhut in 2019 about the pentagonal palace in Trogen and the history of the Zellweger-Gessner family.
Alignment
Based on the Culture Promotion Act of August 1, 2006, Art. 2, Paragraph 2, the cantonal library advocates the "lively discussion of traditional cultural assets and their care, research and communication". It optimizes the acquisition, indexing and preservation processes for all collections, develops usage and advisory services, maintains and strengthens regional, national and international cooperation and increases its awareness by putting itself on the agenda as an institution.
activities
The cantonal library strives for the broadest possible access to its holdings by
- everything that has been stored is made accessible and researchable via an online catalog
- Works digitized and collections or parts of them are completely and free of charge accessible on the Internet
- uses synergies through cooperation with regional, national and international institutions
The canton library is present to the public through
- Publication activity
- Events such as lectures, presentations, guided tours, exhibitions, colloquia
- Press work
The canton library supports institutions such as museums, schools, municipalities and private individuals who deal with the culture and history of the canton through
- Technical information
- Project coaching
- Training
The canton library takes on coordinating and advisory tasks for other libraries in the canton and networks in the regional and Swiss context.
Duration
As of April 2020, the holdings of the Appenzell Ausserrhoden Cantonal Library comprised over 154,000 cataloged items, including among others
- 60,000 pamphlets (books, brochures and dossiers) excluding the holdings of the Andreas Züst library (10,800) and the Appenzell Ausserrhoden State Archives (3800)
- 28,600 image documents
- 3900 AV media
- 3700 archive files
- 800 periodicals
- 600 maps and plans
- 600 scores and sheet music
- 500 manuscripts
The cantonal library has been part of the St. Gallen library network SGBN, coordinated by the St. Gallen cantonal library, since 2000 . The library software used is Aleph . The old printed stocks have been completely retro-cataloged since summer 2006. The special Carl Meyer collections (with the exception of the manuscripts they contain), works of art, the picture collection and the cantonal art collection can also be researched in the St. Gallen library network, as can printed matter, periodicals, maps, plans and AV media. This online catalog also contains the holdings of the Andreas Züst library (BAZ), the Herisau historical library (HBH) and the library of the Appenzell Ausserrhoden State Archives that are externally managed by the Appenzell Ausserrhoden cantonal library.
Since the founding of the union catalog HAN (Manuscript Archive-Legacies) in March 2011, coordinated by the University Library of Basel , the Cantonal Library of Appenzell Ausserrhoden has been recording its handwritten holdings and the personal papers in this catalog, which is also operated with the Aleph library software. It will be integrated into the Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP) at the end of 2020.
The canton library has been a member of the Digital Library Eastern Switzerland (Dibiost) network since 2011 and is the contact point and coordinator for all libraries in both Appenzell cantons that are also affiliated with Dibiost.
Special collections
One of the characteristics of the cantonal library is its collections.
Zellweger family estate
Within the family estate with life documents and chronical records, the letter bequests of Laurenz Zellweger (1692–1764), Johannes Zellweger-Hirzel (1730–1802) and Johann Caspar Zellweger-Gessner (1768–1855) deserve special mention. In cooperation with the State Archives (Zellweger's estate), the historical seminar of the University of Zurich and the Germanic institutes of the Universities of Bern and Bochum (3rd Trogen Library Discussion 2009), the cataloging and processing of the holdings was launched in 2008. The material offers a rich fund for science as well as for the general public interested in national, educational, social, economic and cultural history. An apartment in the Fünfeckpalast and its inventory has been part of the family archive since November 2013. Under the name Zellweger Apartment, it complements the ensemble of Zellweger palaces and the accessible stuccoed and painted rooms on the square with an interior that was continuously used from 1809 to 2013.
Carl Meyer Collection
The Herisau lawyer and politician Carl Meyer (1873–1947), initiator of the Schwägalp – Säntis aerial cableway and President of the Supreme Court of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, has been collecting bibliophile works since the 1920s. His aim was to comprehensively document the history of the development of the book and book illustration from medieval manuscript to the sophisticated printed work of the 20th century. When he died, the collection comprised around 800 works. Around 700 works are now in the Trogen Cantonal Library, including 27 manuscripts, half from the time before the Reformation, 82 cradle prints from the 15th century and 106 prints, mostly woodcut books, from the 16th century. The collection has been indexed in a printed catalog since 2005. Some of the manuscripts are available online on the digitization platform E-Codices.
Description de l'Égypte
The work Description de l'Égypte comprises 25 octave volumes and 900 large-format lithographs and has been in the library since 1834.
Collectio Magica et Occulta (CMO)
The CMO consists of the archive and library of the Psychosophical Society in Switzerland. The PG was founded in 1945 and until its dissolution in 2009 had its seat in the Schedlern in Stein AR. In the course of the 1950s and 1960s, as the umbrella organization and sponsoring association, it took on the administrative support of the Swiss branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), the Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua (FRA), the Illuminati Order (IO) and the Gnostic Catholic Church (GKK) ). The extensive archive comprises approx. 110 linear meters of files; In addition to paper carriers, also photo collections, museum objects and a few audio documents. It contains partial legacies about the Psychosophical Society Association, about the Illuminati Order based in Stein and its offshoots in Germany, Austria, Italy, America and South Africa, about the Gnostic Catholic Church (GKK), about the Rosicrucians as well as files from numerous people, who are different Esoteric currents such as Friedrich Lekve (1904–1996) , Franz Bardon (1909–1958) and Herbert Fritsche (1911–1960) were close . The extensive estate of the filmmaker and graphic artist Albin Grau (1884–1971) and a photo documentation of the Goetheanum also enrich the estate of the Psychosophical Society. The library with 7000 relevant books, small print and periodicals, which is also part of this collection, was supplemented in summer 2015 by 297 high-quality works from the previous possession of Erwin Helmut and Elisabeth Geldmacher. At the end of 2014, the Aeschbach Foundation, Stein, as the previous owner of the collection, presented the CMO with a large amount of money, whose dedicated use will further develop, expand and promote the collection over the next few years.
Collection E. & E. Geldmacher
Professor Erwin Helmut Geldmacher (1923–2009), who lived in Niederteufen, with the support of his wife Elisabeth Geldmacher born Klösges has compiled a historical collection of several hundred books from the 16th to 20th centuries, reprints and facsimile editions as well as a few manuscripts. The legal heirs will establish a legacy from this collection in 2015 in favor of the KBAR. The collection extends - among other things - over the subject areas history / chronicles, Swiss history, Appenzell history, general European cultural history, including early publications on technical sciences and border areas between sciences and empirical or secret knowledge, folk medicine / home remedies / medicine, magic, Magnetism, sorcery, witchcraft, superstition, herbs, agriculture and agriculture, including a lot about “house and farm”, so-called “ house fathers literature ”, the art of living, women, Judaica, luxury items such as beer, coffee, tobacco and chocolate and finally cookbooks. With the exception of the facsimile editions and the works on the subjects of “luxury foods” and “cooking”, the KBAR was able to transfer 423 titles to its historical holdings, primarily into the CMO (297 titles) and the Helvetica / Appenzellensia departments.
Herbert Hoffmann private archive
The tattoo artist and operator of the “oldest tattoo parlor in Germany” Herbert Hoffmann 1919–2010 bequeathed his artistic estate to the Appenzell Ausserrhoden canton library. Hoffmann spent the last 30 years of his life in Heiden. His estate is culturally and historically u. a. significant through photos of tattooed people of all social classes as well as through the résumés of these tattooed people.
Picture collection
The picture collection has a focus on the area of the published picture material and basically comprises prints, posters and postcards. In May 2014, 18,600 fully digitized units were available in the online catalog.
Proofs and bequests from art and literature
In addition to the Zellweger family estate, the canton library also contains various prior art and literary estates, including those of Victor Tobler, Otto Schmid, Ruedi Peter, Peter Morger , Hans-Ruedi Fricker and Infrasteff Signer .
With the estate of pastor Howard Eugster-Züst (1861–1932) and Elisabeth Pletscher (1908–2003), the campaigner for Ausserrhoder women's suffrage, the canton library houses two collections that are important for the canton's social history.
Cantonal art collection
The canton library has been managing the cantonal art collection with a good 3,000 objects since 2008/09. The works of art can be borrowed within the administration and can be researched in the SGBN catalog.
Show
The show is an interdisciplinary collection project that brings contemporary art from all over the world to the rooms of the Appenzell Ausserrhoden Cantonal Library in Trogen. The author and operator of the show is artist René Schmalz, who lived in Trogen. Between 2007 and 2011, up to four events and exhibitions were held annually as part of the show. The collection is currently not actively used due to the artist's illness.
literature
- Adam Marti: About the creation of the Appenzell canton library. In: Appenzellian yearbooks . Vol. 36, 1908, pp. 119-132. doi : 10.5169 / seals-266062
- Johannes Schläpfer: The Ausserrhoder library system. In: Appenzellian yearbooks . Vol. 124, 1996, pp. 5-36. doi : 10.5169 / seals-283346
- Rudolf Gamper and Matthias Weishaupt (eds.): Carl Meyer collection in the Appenzell Ausserrhoden canton library in Trogen. Catalog of manuscripts and prints up to 1600. Dietikon / Zurich 2005. ( PDF )
- Matthias Weishaupt: The “Description de l'Égypte” in the Trogen library. In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher , Vol. 130, 2002, pp. 14-27. doi : 10.5169 / seals-283375
- Hanspeter Marti: Cantonal Library of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. In: Handbook of the historical book collections of Switzerland. ( online )
Web links
- Website of the Cantonal Library of Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- Online catalog of printed matter and images
- Online catalog collections
- Catalog of the Carl Meyer Collection
- Codices Electronici Appenzellenses CEA
- Appenzell Yearbooks 1854–2011
- Appenzell calendar 1722–1837 and 1838–2010
- Century of the Zellweger
- Steff Signer's world
- Contemporary testimonies - Appenzell stories in words and pictures
- Care culture - the culture paper of Appenzell Ausserrhoden
Individual evidence
- ↑ Contract regarding the transfer of the community library in Trogen to the canton for the purpose of establishing a cantonal library. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ^ Website Century of the Zellweger. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Heidi Eisenhut: "The building seems wonderful to me." The pentagonal palace in Trogen and the Zellweger family. Schwellbrunn: Appenzeller Verlag, 2019. Catalog link
- ↑ St.Gallen library network SGBN. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Online catalog of printed matter and image materials. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ^ Website of the library of the patron and book collector Andreas Züst. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Association of HAN. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ^ Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP). Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Dibiost. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Pentagon Palace on the "Century of Zellweger" website. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ^ Catalog of the Carl Meyer Collection. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ↑ KBAR manuscripts on e-codices. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ^ Short biography on Erwin H. Geldmacher, Hans Domizlaff Archive, Frankfurt / M. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 5, 2015 ; accessed on April 3, 2020 .
- ^ Title of the E. & E. Geldmacher collection in the KBAR online catalog. Retrieved October 4, 2015 .
- ^ Michaela Stuhlmann and René Schmalz: Kursaal Heiden - Herbert Hoffmann. In: arttv.ch. May 24, 2011, accessed June 24, 2018 .
- ↑ picture collection. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ^ Cantonal art collection. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
- ^ Website Schauwerk. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .