Książnica Pomorska
The Książnica Pomorska (German Pomeranian Library ) in Stettin , with its full name Książnica Pomorska im. Stanisława Staszica w Szczecinie , is a regional library in Poland . It is the largest humanities-oriented library in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship with a focus on social sciences , Pomeranica , Scandinavian studies , German studies and shipping .
history
In 1901 it was decided to found a city library in Szczecin. The basic inventory was compiled from the collections of the council library, the library of the Pomeranian Museum and, from 1904, the city school library. It was opened on October 3, 1905 with a total of 26,000 volumes. Over the next few years, the inventory was supplemented by duplicates from the library of the Marienstiftsgymnasium and predominantly theological works from the entire church library .
Erwin Ackerknecht headed the library from 1907 to 1945 , which was expanded to 200,000 volumes (1931) during this time. In 1910 a library for the blind was set up. In the following year, the collection began for a music library, which was opened in 1913. Around 1918 it was divided into a public library, which soon consisted of six branches and a youth library, and a scientific city library, in which literature from Pomerania and Szczecin was mainly collected.
In the first four decades of its existence, the library received various donations from various organizations, associations and private individuals, including the Szczecin Medical College and the Masonic lodge To the three golden circles . In addition to the collections of Joachim Bernhard Steinbrück , Johann Joachim Steinbrück and Matthäus Heinrich von Liebeher, manuscripts by Carl Ludwig Schleich , the library received the bequests of the musicians Carl Loewe and Heinrich Triest .
During the Second World War , the main inventory of the library was badly damaged in 1944. Incunabula and Pomeranica had been relocated and thus escaped destruction. When Stettin came to Poland on July 5, 1945, Polish librarians started their work just two days later. Between 1946 and 1949, seized German collections from Western Pomerania , including from Stolp , Köslin , Deutsch Krone and Stargard in Pomerania, were brought together here. The more than 350,000 volumes received were divided according to thematic focus among different libraries in Poland.
In 1954 the city library was combined with the Voivodship Public Library, founded in 1947, to form the Voivodeship Public and City Library. Between 1958 and 1960 extensive holdings were taken over from the Marienstiftsgymnasium, the Stadtgymnasium and the Stargarder Gröningschen Gymnasium. In December 1959 a cartographic department was opened. In 1965 the library was given the status of a scientific library. The following year it was named after the Polish writer and politician Stanisław Staszic. Since 1969, the library has received deposit copies from all over Poland.
In June 1973 a room was set up with a special exhibition on the Polish poet Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński . In 1977 a hall was set up for the estate of the Polish writer and playwright Stefan Flukowski.
After 1990, the responsibility of the library was transferred from the Polish state to local self-government. Because of the growing demand for literature about Germany since the 1990s, the Goethe-Institut set up a German reading room in 1993. At the turn of the millennium the library had a stock of 760,000 books and 143,000 magazines. The special collections comprise 380,000 volumes. With the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , the cataloging and microfilming of the most valuable collections has started using the most modern methods.
literature
- Bernhard Fabian, Marzena Zacharska, Todorka Nikolova: Handbook of German historical book collections in Europe. Poland and Bulgaria . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1999, ISBN 978-3-487-10359-4 , pp. 165f.
- Książnica Pomorska im. Stanisława Staszica w Szczecinie (Ed.): Treasures of the Pomeranian Library Szczezin , 4th revised edition, Szczecin, Poland (2010), ISBN 978-83-87879-78-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephanie Funk: East of the Oder: Poland and its library system ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: LIBREAS. Library Ideas 04/2006.
Web links
- Homepage (Polish, partly English and German)
- West Pomeranian Digital Library (German software version)
Coordinates: 53 ° 25 ′ 24 ″ N , 14 ° 33 ′ 12 ″ E