Polling monastery library

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The former Polling monastery library was once the second largest library in Bavaria after the Munich court library. It belonged to Polling Monastery and was dissolved during the secularization in Bavaria . Around 1631 the collection was still relatively small and mainly in the field of theology . The greatest growth rates of the stock were under the responsibility of the provost Franz Töpsl to record during the Enlightenment . Before Probst Töpsl, there were 20,000 volumes in stock. A large proportion of the 80,000 volumes were essentially incorporated into today's Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the Ingolstadt University Library . This included 653 manuscripts and 1394 incunabula .

The impressive library hall is now used for concerts and events. The construction of this library building took place from 1776 to 1778. The builder of the building was Matthias Bader, the ceiling frescoes were painted by Johann Baader and the stucco was made by Thassilo Zopf. After secularization, around 1814, the Streicher family bought the building and used the large hall as a storage room. During the Second World War, around 800 pictures, some of them very valuable, from the Bavarian State Painting Collection were stored here. In November 1971, members of the Weilheim Rotary Club founded an association to renovate the library room and make it available to the public. The hall has been used regularly for classical concert events since 1975, and several hundred concerts have already taken place.

literature

  • Library hall. In: Max Biller: Pollinger Heimat-Lexikon. Polling 1992, half volume 1, pp. 110-180
  • Fridolin Dreßler , Ladislaus Buzas , Hermann Wiese: Zur Geschichte der Pollinger Bibliothek , Ed .: Verein der Freunde des Pollinger Bibliothekssaals, Verlag: Das Werkstattbuch, 1978. 46 pp.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ladislaus Buzas: Polling and the University Library Ingolstadt - Landshut - Munich. In: Fridolin Dreßler , Ladislaus Buzas , Hermann Wiese: On the history of the Pollinger library , p. 26
  2. ↑ a b Fridolin Dreßler , Ladislaus Buzas , Hermann Wiese: Zur Geschichte der Pollinger Bibliothek , p. 11
  3. ↑ a b Max Biller: Pollinger Heimat-Lexikon , p. 135
  4. ↑ Polling community: library hall , accessed on January 28, 2015
  5. ↑ Max Biller: Pollinger Heimat-Lexikon , p. 137
  6. ↑ Max Biller: Pollinger Heimat-Lexikon , pp. 137-138
  7. ↑ Max Biller: Pollinger Heimat-Lexikon , pp. 139–140