List of public bookcases in Thuringia

This article contains public bookcases in Thuringia 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 28 public bookcases in Thuringia (as of May 30, 2020):

execution	place	since	annotation	location
Book table	Bad Liebenstein	2010	Initiator: Church district, for spa patients	⊙ Peace Church
Phone booth	Bottendorf			⊙
bookshelf	Dachwig	2019	Bookshelf in the outdoor pool, accessible during opening hours	Coordinates are missing! Help. Döllstädter Strasse 3
shelf	Ebersdorf (Saalburg-Ebersdorf)	2012	In the reading room	⊙ Zinzendorfplatz
shelf	Eisenach		Since the neighboring antiquarian bookshop has been closed, stacks of books have been regularly deposited in the entrance area of the unoccupied neighboring house.	⊙ Entrance to the house in the western Goldschmiedenstrasse
Shelf in the Aquaplex	Eisenach	2017	blue shelf in the entrance area of the swimming pool
Book tree	Eisenach OT Hörschel	June 15, 2019	Hollowed out birch trunk in the playground of the place	Rennsteigstrasse
Phone booth	Eisenach OT Göringen	17th Aug 2019	converted telephone booth in the courtyard of the village community center; Sponsor / initiator: Verein Landleben Göringen- Wartha e. V.	Lauchröder Strasse
Phone booth	Erfurt	29 Sep 2011	Initiator: contact in crises e. V.	⊙ Magdeburger Allee 114–116
Reading pavilion	Erfurt		Accessible during the opening hours of the Erfurt horticultural exhibition	⊙ Egapark
Wooden cupboard	Erfurt	23 Apr 2017	Private initiative "Literature Oasis", integrated into a small urban gardening project on an area made available by the "Friedenspalast", initiator: Marcus Jakubowitz	⊙ Spielbergtor
shelf	Erfurt		During the opening times of the cafeteria	⊙ University canteen
Wooden cupboard	Großrettbach ( three equals )	Apr 6, 2019	private initiative, open all day	⊙ Bus shelter at the bus stop
Wooden cupboard	Großschwabhausen	Summer 2019	Donated by the Schwarz family and friends	At the hazel, next to the stone cross
Phone booth	Ilmenau	29 Sep 2018	Initiator: Rotary Rotary Club Ilmenau	⊙ Wetzlarer Platz 1
shelf	Jena		in the Philosophenweg cafeteria, right after the main entrance; bound to their opening times	Philosopher's Walk 20
shelf	Jena		in the Ernst-Abbe-Platz cafeteria, to the left of the children's corner; bound to their opening times	Ernst-Abbe place 8
Phone booth	Jena		diagonally across from the Schiller Church "Our Lady"	Schlippenstrasse (house number?)
shelf	Jena		in the café "Immergrün", bound by their opening times (Mon-Sat 11 am-1am, Sun from 10 am) at the end of the entrance stairs on the left	Jenergasse 6
Wooden cupboard	Mühlhausen / Thuringia	June 28, 2013	Joint project of the Mühlhausen city library , the Geschwister-Scholl-Heim / Mehrgenerationenhaus, the youth technology center and students of practical class 7P of the state regular school "Petrischule" from Mühlhausen; to be used during the opening hours of the multi-generation house (Mon 10 am–6pm, Tue – Fri 10 am–9pm and Sat 2–9pm)	⊙ Outside area of the Geschwister-Scholl-Heims / multi-generation house, Puschkinstraße 8
Wooden cupboard	Oberweid		Private initiative	⊙ Oberweid, Kaltenwestheimer Straße and Hauptstraße (at the parish office)
Phone booth	Ruhla	2014	Set up on the initiative of the women's network “Wir” as part of a day-to-day task of the MDR broadcast Mach dich ran	⊙ Carl-Gareis-Straße, opposite the town hall
Phone booth	Schmoelln	2018	At the initiative of a citizen and the SPD parliamentary group, submission to the social committee. Installation of the shelves by Schlosserei Hofmann, external design by paint sprayer "Farbklatsch"	⊙ Poststrasse, in front of the old station building
shelf	Suhl	17th July 2019	In the youth culture center Jugendschmiede, an institution for open child and youth work, an exchange shelf has been available since July 17, 2019. (Opening times: Mon – Thu 1–7 p.m., Fri 1–10 p.m., Sa project-related 2 × per month)	⊙ Youth culture center Jugendschmiede, Bahnhofstrasse 16
Glass cabinet	Tautenburg		In the town center	⊙ Lindenstrasse 55–57
Phone booth	Waltershausen		in front of the House of Generations (opening times: Mon – Thu 9:30 am–4:30pm, Fri 9:30 am–1pm)	⊙ House of Generations, school square 4
Concrete shelf with glass doors	Weimar	2013	The “Open Library Weimar” was created on the initiative of the Festival for Young Literature “July in June” and the architect Florian Hoppe; in front of the Other Music Academy in Weimar.	⊙ Ernst-Kohl-Strasse 23
Phone booth	Zella Mehlis	2016	The discarded telephone booth was prettied up by the employees of the building depot and designed according to a design by Frank Melech. The interior shelf was made by the Thomas Gießler joinery	⊙ Schubert Park