RheinMain University and State Library

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RheinMain University and State Library
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founding October 12, 1813
Duration Over 1,000,000 media units
Library type University library, regional library
place Wiesbaden coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 40.1 ″  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 14.6 ″  EWorld icon
ISIL DE-43
operator State of Hesse
management Marion Grabka
Website http://www.hs-rm.de/hlb

The RheinMain University and State Library is a central service facility of the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences with locations in Wiesbaden and Rüsselsheim am Main . In addition, as a universal scientific library , it takes on the supply of literature to the population of the city and region.

history

On January 1, 2011, the previously independent Hessian State Library was integrated into the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences . Together with the now former university library, the new university and state library was created at five locations. At the Kurt-Schumacher-Ring , Bertramstraße and Unter den Eichen (all Wiesbaden) and Rüsselsheim locations , it primarily offers its services as support for teaching, study and research in the departments; at the Rheinstraße location , it mainly fulfills its state librarianship tasks .

Both parts of the library had their own history before they were integrated.

University library

The university library was created in 1971 when the then Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences was founded . She took over the book collections of the building trade school in Idstein , which had been built up since 1869 and which initially remained there. In the first few years there were only library rooms attached to the departments, until in 1982 the libraries of several departments were brought together in a new building on Kurt-Schumacher-Ring. Bleichstrasse (today an extension to Bertramstrasse) was added as additional locations in 1992 and the library on the Unter den Eichen campus in 2003.

State Library

The library goes back to the administration-internal government library in Usingen Castle , initiated by Charlotte Amalie von Nassau-Usingen in 1730 , which moved to the former Old Castle in Wiesbaden in 1744 .

In the course of secularization from 1803 onwards, it was greatly expanded through a considerable increase in monastery libraries. It has been open to the public since 1813 and, as the Ducal Nassau Public Library, was given the right to deposit copies - this year is therefore considered to be the actual year that the State Library was founded. In 1821 she moved into the Erbprinzenpalais on Wilhelmstrasse .

After Nassau became Prussian in 1866 , the library was named Königliche Bibliothek Wiesbaden , suddenly moved from a center to the periphery and experienced a period of crisis with a considerable decline in new acquisitions. It was not until 1900 (change to municipal sponsorship and renaming to Nassauische Landesbibliothek , formative librarians Erich Liesegang (1860–1931) and Gottfried Zedler ) that an upswing was initiated through fundamental reorganization and exemplary re-cataloging, as a result of which in 1913 the library moved into its own Newly built building for her could move into Rheinstrasse , where she is still today.

After 1918, the relative impoverishment of the city also made itself felt in the state library. In 1938, the district association for the Wiesbaden government district in the Hesse-Nassau province became the library's sponsor, with the administrative business being effectively taken over by Nazi officials in the service of Governor Wilhelm Traupel .

During the Second World War, the library moved numerous valuable holdings (including the Rupertsberg Giant Codex and the illuminated Scivias Codex Hildegard von Bingen , both from the 12th century, as well as several medieval manuscripts from the Schönau (Strüth) monastery ) to Dresden for security reasons ( Safe of the Girozentrale Sachsen). These works have been lost since they were confiscated by the Soviet occupying forces in December 1945. Only the Rupertsberg Giant Codex remained in Dresden and came back to the state library in 1948 on a winding path. The state library was the only one of the academic libraries in Hesse to survive the air raids of the war years completely unscathed. In 1953 the state of Hesse took over the sponsorship. In the course of this, the house was named Hessische Landesbibliothek in 1963 .

Alongside urban users, students from the surrounding universities have always been one of the library's most important target groups. With the integration into the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences , this was also anchored institutionally.

Holdings and collections

The university and state library currently has a little over 1,000,000 volumes in its holdings, including around 104,000 volumes from before 1900. The library's holdings include around 104,000 prints from before 1900. The most important special collection area is the Nassovica collection around 60,000 titles that relate to the former Duchy of Nassau and / or the House of Nassau or this region, which is mainly located in western Hesse. She also owns 325 manuscripts , including the (also digital) Hildegard von Bingen giant code , 444 incunabula , 6079 autographs and 286 other rare works, for example from the Eberbach monastery , the Schönau (Strüth) monastery or from the government libraries of former Nassau territories (e.g. County Sayn-Hachenburg ). The library of the High School in Herborn deserves a special mention , up until then a stronghold of scientific Calvinism in Germany, most of which came to Wiesbaden in 1817 when the High School was closed.

Special tasks

The library collects, archives and presents regional literature, especially about the former Nassau area (special collection "Nassovica"). The basis for this is the regional legal deposit right for the city of Wiesbaden , the Hochtaunus district , the Lahn-Dill district , the Limburg-Weilburg district , the Main-Kinzig district , the Main-Taunus district and the Rheingau-Taunus district . The regional literature is made searchable in the Hessian Bibliography .

Since 2004, the Hessian Department for Public Libraries has also been assigned to the library , which offers advice and services for municipal public libraries and their providers.

Views of the locations

literature

  • Franz Götting and Ruprecht Leppla: History of the Nassauische Landesbibliothek zu Wiesbaden and the institutions connected with it 1813-1914. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the library on October 12, 1963. Historical Commission for Nassau , Wiesbaden 1963.
  • Martin Mayer (Ed.): From the Ducal Nassau Public Library to the RheinMain University and State Library, 1813–2013. Wiesbaden 2013, e-book or ISBN 978-3-923068-54-8
  • Helga Klein: The Wiesbaden University Library , in: Rectors' Conference of Hessian Universities of Applied Sciences (Hrsg.): Libraries of the universities of applied sciences in Hessen. Frankfurt a. M. 1998, pp. 87-102.

Web links

Commons : Hessische Landesbibliothek  - collection of pictures