List of public bookcases in Rhineland-Palatinate
This article contains public bookcases in Rhineland-Palatinate 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.
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There are currently 83 public bookcases in Rhineland-Palatinate (as of June 20, 2020):
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Wooden cupboard | Altenahr | Dec 2012 |
⊙ Railway station, former general cargo acceptance |
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English phone booth | Altenkirchen | May 2014 | Donated by the Altenkirchen community , supported by the Altenkirchen Antiquariat project |
⊙ Before Bahnhofstrasse 10 |
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BOKX 01 (COR-TEN steel / ESG) | Then after | May 8, 2012 | Donated by RWE |
⊙ To the police |
Bookcase | Then after |
⊙ Johannesplatz opposite the KSK |
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RWE bookcase | Bad Breisig | Apr 11, 2013 | Set up by RWE Energie |
⊙ Kurpark at the Tourist-Info, Koblenzer Straße 39 |
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Bookcase | Bad Hönningen |
⊙ in front of the town hall, Marktstrasse 1 |
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Steel cabinet | Bad Kreuznach | Apr. 2018 | Funded by the Kreuznacher Stadtwerke |
⊙ Egg market in front of the St. Nicholas Church |
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Phone booth | Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler |
Ahrweiler, on the market square |
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Phone booth | Birkenfeld (Nahe) | Oct 6, 2015 | accessible to everyone |
⊙ Way to school 3, in the foyer of the senior center "Senterra" |
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Purple Reading Villa (English Telephone Box) | Bitburg | March 16, 2016 | Set up by the Bitburger book sponsors |
⊙ formerly: Hauptstrasse / corner of Petersstrasse now: Rathausplatz |
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BOKX 01 (COR-TEN steel) | Boppard | 2011 | Is maintained by the city library |
Heerstrasse |
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Telephone booth with solar panels | Bruttig-Fankel | 2018 | between the district of Bruttig and Fankel |
⊙ Hauptstrasse, Bruttig-Fankel |
closet | Budenheim | 2015 | In front of the entrance to the church |
⊙ Jahnstraße 2 at the Protestant church |
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Bookcase | Down | at the Forum Daun |
⊙ Leopoldstrasse |
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Wine barrel | Freimersheim (Rheinhessen) | July 2019 | ⊙ Corner of Bahnhofstrasse / Erlenstrasse | ||
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Metal cabinet | Freudenburg |
⊙ Maximinstraße, on the Kelterplatz (Maximinstraße 3) |
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Bookcase | Germersheim |
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Bookcase | Germersheim | March 2017 |
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Metal cabinet | Gimbsheim | 2017 | Is looked after by the swimming club Freibad Gimbsheim |
Gimbsheim outdoor pool, to the swimming pool 1 |
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Phone booth | Goecklingen | May 2019 | Is supervised by a voluntary initiative, the "book stall sponsor" |
At the town hall, at the bus stop |
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closet | Ingelheim am Rhein | in the school house, closed on weekends, mostly children's books |
⊙ Sebastian-Münster-Gymnasium |
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closet | Ingelheim am Rhein (OT Großwinternheim ) |
⊙ bus stop |
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English phone booth | Hachenburg |
Higham-Ferrers-Platz, Friedrichstrasse, corner of Bornweg |
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BOKX 01 | Kandel (Palatinate) | May 7, 2016 |
On Dierbachweg at the level of the new parking spaces "In the city center" |
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RWE bookcase | Kastellaun | Feb. 17, 2016 | Book sponsors are Petra Müller-Wetstein and Hannah Hamdorf-Strünke |
⊙ Near the fountain on the avenue |
British phone booth | Churches (victory) | Nov 2013 |
Town Hall Square |
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Wooden cupboard | Kirchheimbolanden | 2017 |
Neue Allee, on level 5 of the parking garage |
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Yellow phone booth with internet hotspot (WiFi) | Kirchsahr -Binzenbach | Apr 13, 2018 | Project of the “Freundeskkreis Sahrbachtal” in the Eifel |
⊙ Sahrstraße 36, at the hiking car park in Sahrbachtal |
BOKX 01 (COR-TEN steel) | Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein | Aug. 2014 |
⊙ Kapuzinerplatz |
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Metal cabinet | Koblenz-southern suburb |
⊙ Schenkendorfplatz |
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Telephone booth with solar panels on the roof | Kusel | 2015 | Initiated by "You are Kusel" |
⊙ Roundabout at the rose garden |
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TARDIS bookcase Landau | Landau in the Palatinate | 24 Aug 2018 | Private self-construction in the form of a British TARDIS police box from the SciFi series Dr. Who . On private property, but permanently accessible to the public. |
⊙ Paul-Münch-Strasse 3 |
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BücherboXX in the Südpark | Landau in the Palatinate | 16 Aug 2019 | Former French telephone booth. Accessible in daylight. Further information at https: //www.bücherboxx-südpark.de/ |
⊙ Südpark, in front of the Par Terre vinotheque, Georg-Friedrich-Dentzel-Str. 11 |
Self-made bookcase made of upcycling material | Landstuhl | 17th May 2016 | Built in the project week of the (SGL) |
Sickingen-Gymnasium, Philipp-Fauth-Straße 3 |
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Book box | Limburgerhof | Sep 2016 | The box is only on the reading bench from mid-March to early October |
Burgunderplatz |
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Slottis Book-Box Yellow telephone booth |
Ludwigshafen - Maudach | Oct. 2013 | Please visit only in daylight. Books, comics, small board games |
⊙ Höflichgäßchen 4 |
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Phone booth | Ludwigshafen-Oppau | March 2015 | VerkehrsInitiative-Ludwigshafen e. V., citizens' initiative that advocates local public transport |
Oppau, final tram stop, Bad-Aussee-Straße |
open bookcase LU garden city small bookcase |
Ludwigshafen - garden city | Oct. 2019 | Please visit only in daylight. Books, children's books, comics, small board games |
⊙ Innsbrucker Weg 37 |
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Metal cabinet | Mainz | Focus on children's books |
⊙ In front of the main entrance of the vhs building on Karmeliterplatz in the city center |
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Metal cabinet | Mainz old town |
⊙ Kirschgarten / corner of Rochusstraße |
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Showcase | Mainz-Bretzenheim | Sep 2007 | Initiative of a local party association |
⊙ Tram terminus Bahnstraße |
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Wooden cupboard | Mainz-Gonsenheim | Children's books only |
⊙ In front of the children's bookshop on Breite Straße |
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Advertising column | Mainz-Gonsenheim |
Bürgermeister-Alexander-Strasse bus stop, Krongarten |
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Showcase | Mainz-Gonsenheim |
Coming at the corner of Willy-Brandt-Platz from Bürgermeister-Alexander-Straße |
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Showcase | Mainz-Hechtsheim |
Back of the old fire station at the terminus of tram line 52 |
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Showcase | Mainz-Laubenheim |
⊙ Corner at the KiTa MinniMax in Rüsselsheimer Allee |
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Showcase | Mainz-Marienborn | On sunny slope 8 (in front of the pizzeria "Da Raffaele") | |||
Showcase | Mainz-Mombach |
⊙ At the Hauptstrasse / Kreuzstrasse roundabout |
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Showcase | Mainz-Neustadt |
At the north-eastern end (towards Leibnizstraße) of Lessingplatz |
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closet | Mainz-Neustadt | Only during the Environment Information Center's opening times, Monday – Friday 10 am–6pm, Saturday 10 am–2pm |
Environmental Information Center of the City of Mainz, Dominikanerstraße 2 |
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Distribution box | Mainz-Neustadt | Aug 28, 1994 |
⊙ Feldbergplatz , Taunusstrasse |
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Distribution box | Mainz-Upper Town | 1994 | Berlin settlement |
On Berliner Straße, between the row of shops and the high-rise buildings. |
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Bookcase | Maximiliansau | 2016 |
⊙ At the fountain of the former town hall square (Cany-Barville-Straße) opposite the Catholic rectory |
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bookshelf | Mayen | 2016 | Accessible during the opening hours of the land surveying and land registry office (Mon-Fri: 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.) |
At the water tower 5a, in front of the service point of the land surveying and land registry office |
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Red phone booth | Minfeld | 2019 | The "book exchange" is privately run by the Marx family. | Minfeld Im Wiesengrund 1 | |
Distribution box | Mommenheim | 2012 |
Zwerchgasse |
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bookshelf | Neck home | 2016 | Accessible during the opening hours of the Repair-Café Nackenheim on the 1st Saturday of each month from 2 p.m. |
Grinding path 8 |
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Phone booth | Nasta | 2017 |
Adolfsplatz |
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Small box | Neustadt an der Weinstrasse | 2009 | Accessible during the opening hours of the St. Jakobus Catholic public library in Neustadt-Hambach (Sun. 11: 00–12: 30, Tue. 17: 00–19: 00, Thu. 17: 00–18: 00) and always, when the parish hall is open |
Weinstrasse 138 |
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BOKX 01 | Neustadt- Diedesfeld | 2019 | The project was created in cooperation between the GS Brothers Grimm School Diedesfeld, the BBS Neustadt and BBS Forbach | Kirchwiesenstr., Playground at the elementary school | |
bookshelf | Neuwied - Niederbieber | 2016 |
New way |
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Bookcase | Nod | Dec 2016 |
Kirchstrasse 2, in front of the Kulturscheune |
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Distribution box | Niederahr | May 2018 | from the initiative for village moderation |
Hauptstraße, corner of Oststraße, in the bus shelter at the school bus stop |
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RWE bookcase | Oberwesel | May 2014 |
Hospitalgasse 11, in front of the Loreley Clinic |
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Wooden cupboard | Oils | Apr 25, 2020 | Set up by the local parish of Ölsen | Old bus stop in the center of the village on the main street | |
Bookcase | Plaidt | Friedhofstrasse in front of the municipal administration | |||
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Old electrical box | Queichhambach | 2008 | First public bookcase in the Palatinate |
⊙ Eastern entrance to the village |
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bookshelf | Ramstein-Miesenbach | Aug 1, 2016 | Services: Public Library Ramstein-Miesenbach and Honorary Visiting Service Kaiserslautern, open Mon-Wed 08: 00-16: 00 , Thu 08: 00-18: 00 , Fri 08: 00-12: 30 |
Town hall, Am Neuen Markt 6 |
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French phone booth | Remagen | 16 Sep 2016 | Support from the Evangelical Library |
Maisons-Laffitte-Platz (station forecourt) |
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BooksBOXX | Rennerod | Dec 8, 2016 | Support from the Hoher Westerwald e. V. |
Hauptstrasse 63 |
Book booth | Rheinbreitbach | Rheinbreitbach 2030 initiative |
Schulstrasse 7a |
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Bookcase | Saffig | March 2017 |
Pöschstraße 13, outdoor area of the café "Zum Schänzchen" |
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Bookcase | Schalkenmehren |
⊙ To the divorce |
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Distribution box | Schwabenheim an der Selz | Set up by RWE Energie |
Marketplace |
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Phone booth | Simmern / Hunsrück | Feb. 14, 2014 | Established by the Rotary Club of Simmern |
⊙ Aulergasse, at the church tower of St. Josef |
bookshelf | Simmern / Hunsrück | 2016 | Accessible during the opening hours of the land surveying and cadastral office (Mon-Fri 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) |
Hüllstrasse 7-9, in front of the service point of the surveying and land registry office |
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Telephone booth, artistically designed | Sinzig | 17th May 2013 | Set up by the Association for the Promotion of Monument Preservation and the Sinzig Local History Museum |
⊙ Fountain Square |
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Sohren | Dec 14, 2017 | Set up by innogy, looked after by the Evangelical Children's and Youth Library |
⊙ Beginning of Bahnhofstrasse |
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BOKX 02 | Speyer | May 8, 2014 | Initiators: AG commemorative event “1933 Book Burning in Germany” and Friends of the Speyer City Library e. V. Donors: above-mentioned friends' association and VHS Speyer |
In the Kulturhof Flachsgasse (entrance from Maximilianstraße next to the tourist information) |
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English phone booth | trier |
Schammatdorf, in front of the center (Im Schammat 13 a) |
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Bookcase | trier | Jan. 13, 2017 | Opening times: Mon – Fri 8:30 am–12pm, 1pm – 4pm |
Katrin Werner constituency office, Paulinstrasse 1–3, 2nd floor |
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BooksCell
(Books in the telephone cell Waldlaubersheim) |
Waldlaubersheim | Sep 9 2012 | Books cell (phone booth)
"The smallest library in the region" |
Between Viktoriaplatz and Martinskirche, Binger Strasse 10, right next to the fire station |
Wooden cupboard | Weinolsheim |
In the village community center, Friesenheimer Straße 8 |
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English phone booth | Westerburg |
⊙ Marketplace |
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Wooden cupboard | Worms | Oct 2011 | Tuesday to Friday 9:30 am to 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm, Saturdays 10:00 am to 1:00 pm |
⊙ Auxere place |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ A bookcase for all citizens. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , January 2, 2013.
- ↑ Public bookcase in Bad Breisig: After vandalism, the cabinet is now in front of the tourist information office. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn). September 11, 2015, accessed April 16, 2016.
- ^ Report on the new bookcase on the Eiermarkt on the Kreuznacher Stadtwerke homepage , accessed on August 27, 2018
- ↑ Our public bookcase: "Lila Lesevilla". Bitburger Buchpaten, accessed on April 16, 2016.
- ^ RWE bookcase in Kastellaun Press release from the city of Kastellaun from February 17, 2016, accessed on September 20, 2018.
- ↑ Landau: Germany's first Dr. Who telephone booth . ( rheinpfalz.de [accessed on September 8, 2018]).
- ↑ Rolf Dörlamm: Goethe's "Faust" next Asterix adventure. In: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz. June 1994, accessed July 14, 2016.
- ↑ Reading pleasure: Nastatten gets a book box. In: Rhein-Zeitung. January 6, 2017.
- ↑ The bookcase at the Kulturscheune invites you to read a local book, December 6, 2016, accessed on April 18, 2017.
- ↑ A bookcase for St. Goar-Oberwesel. City of Oberwesel, May 26, 2014, accessed on August 12, 2014.
- ↑ The bus stop becomes a book stop. Ölsen parish, accessed April 27, 2020 .
- ↑ "Open bookcase" officially inaugurated. In: blick-aktuell.de. September 19, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2017 .
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: information on the Saffiger day of action on March 25, 2017 ) Saffig community, March 20, 2017, accessed on April 18, 2017.
- ↑ Hildegard Ginzler: Culture in Sinzig. Association inaugurates bookcase. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn). May 17, 2013, accessed August 26, 2014.
- ^ Website of the Waldlaubersheim community on the BücherZelle