List of public bookcases in Hamburg

This article contains public bookcases in Hamburg and does not claim to be complete. A public bookcase is a cupboard or cabinet- like storage space with books that is used to offer books free of charge, anonymously and without any formalities for exchange or to take away. As a rule, the public bookcases are freely accessible every day of the year. If this is not the case, this is noted in the lists in the Comments column.

list

There are currently 162 public bookcases in Hamburg (as of November 13, 2019):

image	execution	district	since	annotation	location
	Small bookcase	Alsterdorf	2011	"Little free library"	⊙ Alsterdorfer Damm on the bridge over the Alster
	Open shelf	Dulsberg	2019	Dulsberger exchange cabinet for books, clothes, dishes, DVDs, CDs, toys, etc.	⊙ Walddörferstr. on the corner of Elsässer Str. at the Marktmeisterhaus
	Bookcase	Hoheluft-Ost	2011		⊙ On the church square of St. Mark's Church
	Bookcase	Great Borstel	?		⊙ Paeplowweg (opposite the confluence of "Weg Nr. 174")
	Bookcase / Borsteler book shelf	Great Borstel	2018		⊙ Borsteler Chaussee at the corner of Schrödersweg at St. Peter's Church
	Two simulated telephone boxes	Harburg	Dec 2016	Access to the Harburg Arcaden on working days from 6:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.	⊙ Lüneburger Strasse 39
	open shelf	Karolinenviertel	2011?	Germ cell bookcase	⊙ Marktstrasse / Laeizstrasse
	Former small kitchen cupboard with glazed doors on fence posts with a gable roof	Hummelsbüttel	June 27, 2015	always accessible and with video surveillance due to vandalism! Larger book formats can only be accommodated under the roof, which is unprotected on one side	⊙ Hummelsbüttler Weg 26
	Illuminated phone booth	Neugraben-Fischbek	2014?		⊙ Neugrabener Markt 2
	small wooden shelf	Ottensen	9 Nov 2019	"Green Otta"; always accessible, including CDs and games; during the car-free project "Ottensen makes space" until the end of February 2019; supervised by Greenpeace Group Hamburg	⊙ Ottenser Hauptstrasse 39–41
	Several bookshelves around a eating area, ground floor (middle)	Poppenbüttel	2015?	Removal and / or placement of books is expressly permitted, access daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (except on Sundays and public holidays)	⊙ Heegbarg 31
	bookshelf	St. Pauli	2014?	Mon - Sat 7 am to 9 pm, Sun. 7 am to 2 pm Usually more advertising brochures than books	⊙ Cattle market hall
	Phone booth	Tonndorf	June 27, 2015	Tonndorfer book cell, donated by the blog “ICH MAG TONNDORF”, the Biehl joinery, the Comlift transport company and the Fritz Hack civil engineering company	⊙ Tonndorfer Hauptstrasse 88
	closet	Eimsbüttel	around 2016	Eimsbüttel exchange cabinet for books, clothes, shoes, CDs, toys, etc.	⊙ Stellinger Weg 30 / corner of Hellkamp
	Bookshelf in buses of the HVV	in various parts of the city	Apr. 2010	in 150 VHH buses , looked after by Stilbruch, a subsidiary of Hamburg City Cleaning	( no coordinates possible) Bus routes: 3, 4, 12, 192

See also

• List of public bookcases in Germany

Web links

Commons : Public bookcases in Hamburg  - collection of pictures

Remarks

1. ↑ Public bookcases in 150 VHH buses , for which no fixed location information is possible, have been combined in a column under "in various parts of the city".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Little Free Library in Hamburg. November 27, 2011, accessed November 12, 2015 (blog). 
2. ↑ Hamburg's first public bookcase. (No longer available online.) In: Mein Quartier. Hamburger Abendblatt, July 26, 2011, archived from the original on August 23, 2017 ; accessed on November 12, 2015 (Blog Eppendorf). 
3. ↑ Green Otta. Retrieved November 13, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Hamburg book bus - The rolling library. In: hamburg.de. hamburg.de, accessed on April 30, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Bookshelves in the bus. In: vhhbus.de. Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH, accessed on April 30, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Roman Berlin: 70s party: VHH celebrates a million books with broken styles in their buses. In: Nahverkehr Aktuell Hamburg. January 31, 2017, accessed April 30, 2019 . 

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