List of the largest libraries in Germany

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Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig: A location of the German National Library
Entrance courtyard of the Berlin State Library
The Bavarian State Library ; here: entrance portal of the State Library with the four scholars Thucydides , Homer , Aristotle and Hippocrates (from left to right)

This sortable list of the largest libraries in Germany contains the libraries in the Federal Republic of Germany whose collections include at least 5 million individual media. This includes books , periodicals , handwritten texts (such as letters , certificates , music and contracts ), materials in microform as well as photos , postcards , maps and patents . Digital holdings are also included.

The largest library in Germany in terms of holdings is the German National Library in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main, founded in 1912 . It represents the central archive library for all media works in German from Germany and abroad and the national bibliographic center of Germany and, as part of the Collection of German Prints, fulfills the tasks of a national library from the year of publication 1913. The largest library in terms of area is the State Library in Berlin , which in 2019 came to a main usable area of almost 162,000 square meters - the area of ​​around 23 soccer fields (DNB: 111,000; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: 103,000).

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The information follows the German Library Statistics (DBS) 2019. The book inventory includes books (including dissertations) as well as magazines and newspapers according to bookbinding units.

Surname Location Number of media of which book inventory founding
Bavarian State Library Munich ( Bavaria ) 33.9 million 10.9 million 1558
German National Library Leipzig / Frankfurt am Main ( Saxony / Hesse ) 33.3 million 21.5 million 1912
Berlin State Library Berlin 25.5 million 11.9 million 1661
Rostock University Library Rostock ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ) 11.6 million 2.2 million 1569
University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg Frankfurt am Main ( Hesse ) 10.3 million 7.1 million 15th century
Technical information library Hanover ( Lower Saxony ) 9.7 million 6.0 million 1959
Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen Göttingen ( Lower Saxony ) 9.2 million 6.0 million 1734
University and State Library of Münster Münster ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) 7.9 million 6.1 million 1588
Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library Dresden ( Saxony ) 7.6 million 5.7 million 1556/1828
Dortmund University Library Dortmund ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) 7.4 million 1.6 million 1965
University library of the Free University of Berlin Berlin 6.9 million 6.2 million 1952
University library of the Humboldt University of Berlin Berlin 6.4 million 6.1 million 1899
Württemberg State Library Stuttgart ( Baden-Wuerttemberg ) 6.2 million 4.1 million 1765
Munich University Library Munich ( Bavaria ) 6.0 million 5.3 million 1573
University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt Halle / Saale ( Saxony-Anhalt ) 5.9 million 5.1 million 1696
State and University Library Hamburg Hamburg 5.8 million 4.3 million 1479/1919
Giessen University Library Giessen ( Hesse ) 5.7 million 3.8 million 1612
Leipzig University Library Leipzig ( Saxony ) 5.6 million 5.1 million 1543
University and State Library Darmstadt Darmstadt ( Hesse ) 5.3 million 2.4 million 1568
ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics Kiel ( Schleswig-Holstein ) 5.2 million 4.4 million 1919
Heidelberg University Library Heidelberg ( Baden-Wuerttemberg ) 5.1 million 3.2 million 1386

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German library statistics , bibliotheksstatistik.de , accessed on July 19, 2020, series “main usable area of ​​the library”.
  2. ↑ bibliotheksstatistik.de , accessed on July 19, 2020. Calculation: books (including dissertations), magazines and newspapers according to bookbinding units in total + other printed works in total + other non-electronic materials in total + manuscripts and autographs in total + digital holdings (number) in total (excluding electronic magazines and newspapers).
  3. ↑ Including 17.3 million single-sheet media, mainly from the STERN photo archive, which was incorporated in 2019 and comprises over 15 million media.
  4. ↑ Including 6.1 million patents (Patent and Standards Center Rostock).
  5. ↑ 2018: 17.4 million. The figure for 2019 is probably incorrect, as no inventory of “other non-electronic materials” (i.e. sound carriers, films, micromaterials, art prints, images, etc.) is reported for 2019. This amounted to 10.0 million in 2018.
  6. ↑ Including 3.9 million materials in microform.