Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek
| Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek | |
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 The stone house
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| founding | 1832 |
| Duration | approx. 54,000 volumes |
| Library type | Scientific library |
| place |
Überlingen 
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| ISIL | DE-159 (Leopold Sophien Library) |
| operator | City of Überlingen |
| management | Michael Brunner |
| Website | Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek |
The Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek is a listed scientific library with historical holdings in the city of Überlingen . It was created through the donation of Pastor Franz Sales Wocheler to the " Leopold-Sophien-Schule ", which was named in honor of the then ruling Grand Duke Leopold and his wife, Grand Duchess Sophie Wilhelmine of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf .
history
The Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek was opened on May 15, 1832 in the old Franciscan monastery (the town's school building at the time). Initially it consisted mainly of the donated library (together with a collection of natural objects ) of around 10,000 volumes from the Catholic city pastor Franz Sales Wocheler. In connection with this foundation, the still existing volumes of the old imperial city council library, which dates back to the early 16th century, the remaining holdings of the Überlingen monastery libraries ( Franciscans and Capuchins ) and the collegiate monastery were rearranged and with Wocheler's books in 1832 as the probably first public ones Baden library opened. Wocheler continued to donate numerous books to the library until his death. There were also other important bequests , gifts and purchases.
Wocheler determined that the library should be made accessible to the public and: " That the library will remain a stable, inviolable property of the Leopold-Sophien-Schule there, respectable for the city of Überlingen for ever, so neither partially nor in its entirety by an arrangement, it comes from wherever it wants, is to be transferred and directed elsewhere ”. But things turned out differently as early as 1846: the library in the Franciscan monastery (including school) had to give way to the district court, and it was packed in boxes and placed in the attic under the desolate roof of an old warehouse (so-called stone house ). When the books were at least partially set up, a bookbinder stated: " The paper, spoiled by rain and moisture, was very much alive ... "
It was not until 1886 that the Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek, which had lost several thousand volumes in damp storage for years, was cataloged by Otto Kunzer and made accessible again as a department of the natural history cabinet in the stone house. After the cabinet in the Reichlin-von-Meldegg-Haus was reopened as a municipal museum in 1913 , the Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek was established in the Greth , the former municipal granary , on Landungsplatz in 1920 .
In 1937 it was divided into a scientific, non-public, and a public library in order to avoid “cleaning up unwanted writings”. The public library then developed into today's city library . The holdings were kept separate after 1945, but the Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek was made accessible to the public again. 1977 to set it as one of the most important German libraries in the Lake Constance region under monument protection .
The Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek has been located in the renovated stone house since 1996 , where it was accessible to the public from 1846 (stored in boxes) and from 1886 to 1920.
Duration
The library currently has 54,000 volumes, including 300 incunabula and 314 manuscripts . The inventory consists of a completed old inventory, which largely consists of the generous foundation of the former Überlingen city pastor Franz Sales Wocheler, and a new inventory on the city, regional and state history .
literature
- Otto Kunzer: Catalog of the Leopold-Sophien Library of the former free imperial city of Ueberlingen a. B. Überlingen 1898 Internet Archive .
- Alfons Semler: 100 years of the Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek in Überlingen , in: Bodensee-Chronik Volume 21, Konstanz 1932.
- Alfons Semler: Überlingen - Pictures from the history of a small imperial town , Oberbadischer Verlag, Singen 1949.
- Alfons Semler: The Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek in Überlingen , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 75th year 1957, pp. 117-132 ( digitized version ).
- Dieter Helmut Stolz : Überlinger Incunable Catalog. Catalog of the incunabula of the Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek Überlingen. Constance 1966 (reprint Allensbach 1970).
- Gerhard Römer: Books, donors, libraries - book culture between the Neckar and Lake Constance. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-17-013025-0 .
- Volker Caesar: The stone house of the Heiliggeistspital in Überlingen. From store to book store (PDF; 773 kB), in: Zeitschrift Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg, March 2002. State Office for Monument Preservation / Regional Council Stuttgart, 2002, ISSN 0342-0027 .
- Christian Heitzmann: The medieval manuscripts of the Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek in Überlingen , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 120th year 2002, pp. 41-103 ( digitized ).
Web links
- Entry Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek in the online edition of the manual of historical book stocks .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b History of the library on the website of the city of Überlingen
- ^ A b Gerhard Römer: Books, donors, libraries - book culture between Neckar and Lake Constance. 1998, p. 197.
- ↑ Volker Caesar: The stone house of the Heiliggeistspital in Überlingen. From store to book store (PDF; 773 kB), in: Zeitschrift Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg, March 2002. State Office for Monument Preservation / Regional Council Stuttgart, 2002, ISSN 0342-0027
- ↑ Information on the inventory
- ^ Holdings of the library on the website of the city of Überlingen