Karlsruhe libraries

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There are over six million books and other media in Karlsruhe's academic and public libraries .

Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe

Baden State Library

The Badische Landesbibliothek is a scientific universal library . Its inventory amounts to around 2.8 million media from all subject areas (as of 2019) plus an extensive range of digital media.

As a regional library, it is responsible for the administrative districts of Freiburg and Karlsruhe and exercises the right to deposit copies . It has its origins in the Margravian Badischer Hofbibliothek, founded around 1500 as the Pforzheimer Schlossbibliothek . Since 1987 it has been housed in a new building planned by Oswald Mathias Ungers on Erbprinzenstrasse. The collections include numerous historical manuscripts from the holdings of the aristocracy and monasteries in the state, including the Donaueschingen Nibelung manuscript C since 2001 and the Donaueschingen Wigalois manuscript since 2018 (Cod.Don. 71).

KIT library

The KIT library (library of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) is the largest of the Karlsruhe university libraries. It emerged at the end of 2009 from the Karlsruhe University Library, which was founded in 1840 as the library of what was then the Polytechnic, and the library of the Karlsruhe Research Center. The library has a total of over two million books and 28,000 magazines as well as multimedia documents and microforms. The focus is on the areas of natural science, technology and economics. Registered users can use the KIT Library South around the clock and borrow and return books via a self-booking system. The KIT library operates the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog , a meta search engine for German and international online library catalogs.

Since 2009 the KIT library has also been supplying the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences - Technology and Business with the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (FBH) library in Moltkestrasse. The university library in Karlsruhe, which was previously used by the PH and Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, has since been geared towards the needs of the Karlsruhe University of Education. The joint library of the ZKM and the State University of Design has around 50,000 books with a focus on 20th century art. The libraries of the State Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Music and the Cooperative State University are primarily available to students.

Karlsruhe City Library

The New Ständehaus , seat of the city library

The Karlsruhe City Library is the city's public library with a holdings of over 300,000 items. It was founded in 1921 and has been based in the rebuilt new Ständehaus since 1993 . The city library includes district libraries in Durlach, Grötzingen, Mühlburg, Neureut and Waldstadt. One of its branches is the American Library, which was created in 1996 as a gift from the withdrawn US garrison and has around 35,000 English-language books. The city library also operates a children's and youth library in the Prinz-Max-Palais and a media bus that travels to the outskirts of the city.

Art library of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

The art library of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe is one of the largest publicly accessible museum libraries in Germany with over 150,000 volumes.

Library of the Federal Constitutional Court

The library of the Federal Constitutional Court with around 400,000 volumes is an in-court, not generally accessible scientific specialist library. The library of the Federal Court of Justice has limited access to external users.

Regional church library

The regional church library of the Evangelical Church in Baden has a total of around 110,000 books. She owns a copy of the Augusta Maria Bible from 1698.

List of Karlsruhe libraries

Libraries in the administrative district of Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe library portal

The Karlsruhe libraries are accessible via the Karlsruhe library portal.

Public bookcases

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Libraries in Karlsruhe , City of Karlsruhe, accessed on July 17, 2011.
  2. ↑ Statistics. In: Website of the Baden State Library. Badische Landesbibliothek, accessed on January 12, 2019 .
  3. ^ Karlsruhe University of Education: University Library , accessed on July 18, 2011.
  4. ^ Scientific Libraries , City of Karlsruhe, accessed on July 18, 2011.
  5. ↑ American Library , City of Karlsruhe, accessed on July 17, 2011.
  6. ^ Art library of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe ( memento from July 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 17, 2011.
  7. ^ The library of the Federal Constitutional Court , accessed on January 29, 2016.
  8. ↑ The library of the Federal Court of Justice ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 17, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesgerichtshof.de
  9. ↑ EKIBA , accessed October 18, 2018.
  10. ↑ Library on smnk.de
  11. ↑ http://www.bibliotheksportal-karlsruhe.de