Marienbibliothek

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Marienbibliothek zu Halle an der Saale
Bookplate from the Marienbibliothek
Bookplate from the Marienbibliothek

founding 1552
Duration 30,000 volumes
Library type Scientific library
place Halle (Saale) Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 56 ″  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 6 ″  EWorld icon
ISIL DE-Ha32 (Marienbibliothek)
operator Hallesche Marktkirchengemeinde
management Anke Fiebiger
Website www.marienbibliothek-halle.de

The Marienbibliothek zu Halle an der Saale is a scholarly Protestant church library in Halle (Saale) . It is the oldest and largest continuously accessible library of its kind in Germany.

history

The Marienbibliothek was founded in 1552 by Sebastian Boetius , the senior pastor of St. Mary's Church, today's market church of Our Lady . Boetius bought a few books at the Leipzig trade fair with the money from a donation. The book inventory increased very quickly through donations and purchases. Until the University Library in Halle was founded in 1696, the Marienbibliothek was the only public collection of books in the city that until then had to be used by the students and professors of the newly founded university. Even after that, the slowly growing university library was unable to meet the need for literature. Supported by an electoral usage privilege from 1697, the professors continued to prefer the more extensive Marienbibliothek.

building

Domicile from 1609 to 1889
Exterior view of the Marienbibliothek in Halle

The library holdings were originally housed in the southern Hausmannsturm of the Marktkirche. At the beginning of the 17th century, however, the inventory had grown so much that a new library building was built south of the church in 1607-1609. This Renaissance house , located next to the market church , on the upper floor of which was the library room supported by a vault, also served as a rectory and superintendent.

In the years 1887/88 Reinhard Knoch & Friedrich Kallmeyer built a new building at Marienkirche 1 (in the courtyard of the parsonage of the market church). This made the old library building superfluous and it was demolished in 1889. In the new two-storey brick shell there is the Gertraudenkapelle built as a wedding church on the ground floor and the storage room behind large arched windows on the upper floor. The self-supporting shelving system extends over three mezzanine floors. It was designed to save space with cast iron supports and iron grates as floor or ceiling according to the then new and modern French magazine system.

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Entry in the baptismal register of the Marktkirche Our Dear Women on February 24, 1685: Baptism of Georg Friedrich Handel

The library today comprises around 30,000 volumes, mainly from the 15th to 18th centuries. These include over 435 incunabula , 308 manuscripts and 229 documents from the 13th to 18th centuries. Of particular interest are the Torah scroll from the early 14th century and the extensive collections of pamphlets from the 16th and 17th centuries. The collection also includes prints from the Bible (including those with Luther's handwritten entries ), theological literature and early editions on philosophy , law , medicine , astronomy and astrology . The archives of the Marktkirche including the holdings of the former parishes of St. Ulrich , St. Moritz and St. Georgen are also stored here. It covers the period from the 16th century to the present day. The church registers contained therein - u. a. with Handel's baptism entry - are blocked for use by third parties. However, they are available as microfilms in the archives of the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony , an EKM archive in Magdeburg.

The Marienbibliothek still has four extensive scholarly libraries from the 17th and 18th centuries that have been preserved and have been closed. There are the libraries of Friedrich Hoffmann (1660–1742) with 760 volumes, of Johann Christlieb Kemme (1738–1815) with 3650 volumes, of Christian Gottlob Zschackwitz (1720–1767) with 2000 volumes and of Joachim Oelhafen (1603–1690) . She also owns the library of Karl Christian Lebrecht Franke (1796–1879), a pastor's library from the 19th century.

Since 1986 the library has been keeping the historical book holdings of the three church libraries in Sangerhausen (St. Ulrici), Weißenfels (St. Marien) and Schneidlingen (St. Sixti) as a deposit .

In 2009, as a result of the union of the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia to the Evangelical Church in Central Germany, the hymn book collection of the Evangelical Consistory Magdeburg and, with the dissolution of the Evangelical Church of the Union, the hymnbook collection of this church with a total of approx. 6,000 volumes as a deposit in the Marienbibliothek. In addition to the 1,400 hymn books from Halle, the Thuringian collection with 700 hymn books was added in 2009. Since then, the Marienbibliothek has had one of the largest collections of hymn books in Germany with around 8,000 copies.

The Marienbibliothek is a reference library . Together with the library of the Francke Foundations and the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt, it is one of the three most important book collections in the city of Saale.

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Exhibitions

  • 2002/03: 450 years of the Marienbibliothek in Halle. Valuables and rarities from an old book collection. In the historic orphanage of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale).
  • 2007: The Marienbibliothek in Halle. Exhibition in the foyer of the state parliament in Magdeburg.
  • 2016/17: Knowledge storage of the Reformation. The Marienbibliothek and the library of the orphanage in Halle. In the historic orphanage of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale).

Cabinet exhibitions in the library

  • 2011: Religious Matters - On the Material Culture of Protestant Piety.
  • 2012: "This is how it sounds beautiful in my song" - hymn books and music prints from 500 years.
  • 2013: The Hallensia Collection - City History in the Marienbibliothek.
  • 2014: "Hope my consolation" - The treasures of Frau von Selmenitz.
  • 2015: From the areas of knowledge of the Marienbibliothek.
  • 2016: Sun, moon and stars ... Insights into the astronomical-astrological collection of the Marienbibliothek.
  • 2017: The Marienbibliothek over the centuries.
  • 2018: Experienced strangers. Travel reports from the early modern period in the Marienbibliothek.
  • 2019: Living in Halle through the centuries - searching for traces in the holdings of the Marienbibliothek.
  • 2020: The work of the Olearius family in Halle ad Saale.

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Heinrich L. Nickel, Karsten Eisenmenger: The Marienbibliothek der Marktkirche Our Dear Women to Halle on the Saale. (Flyer, published by the Friends of the Marienbibliothek zu Halle e.V.)
  2. ↑ Heidi Jürgens: Schatz finds a new home. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. January 26, 2009. Retrieved November 5, 2009 .

literature

  • The Marienbibliothek zu Halle. Valuables and rarities from an old book collection. Issue 1. Ed. By Heinrich L. Nickel. Self-published. Halle 1995 (2nd edition 1998).
  • The Marienbibliothek zu Halle. Valuables and rarities from an old book collection. Issue 2. Edited by Heinrich L. Nickel. Self-published. Hall 1998.
  • Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer, Hans-Joachim Krause: Handbook of German art monuments. Saxony-Anhalt II. Administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1999, pp. 260 f., ISBN 3-422-03065-4 .
  • Heinrich L. Nickel (ed.): 450 years of the Marienbibliothek zu Halle an der Saale. Valuables and rarities from an old book collection. Edited on behalf of the Friends of the Marienbibliothek zu Halle e. V., Stekovics, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89923-018-3 .
  • Ulrich Richter: The celestial globe of Willem Janszoon Blaeu in the Marienbibliothek zu Halle. Edited by the Friends of the Marienbibliothek zu Halle e. V., Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-023005-9 .
  • The Marienbibliothek zu Halle (Saale). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-42202198-3 .
  • Karsten Eisenmenger: The Marienbibliothek in the 18th century. in: Katrin Dziekan, Ute Pott (ed.): Reading worlds - historical libraries. Page 41-49; Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2011; ISBN 978-3-89812-538-3 .
  • Twenty years of the Friends of the Marienbibliothek zu Halle an der Saale 1991-2011. Lectures on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Freundeskreis der Marienbibliothek e. V. on April 16, 2011. Documentation on the foundation and history of the Freundeskreis . Edited by Mechthild Hofmann. Self-published. Hall 2012.
  • The library of Felicitas von Selmenitz and her son Georg von Selmenitz. A book collection from the Reformation period in the Marienbibliothek zu Halle an der Saale. Edited by the Friends of the Marienbibliothek zu Halle e. V., Ed. By Jutta Eckle. Halle 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045514-8 .
  • On another earth and under another sky. To the calendars, practices, prognoses and comet writings from the early modern period in the Marienbibliothek zu Halle an der Saale . Edited on behalf of the Friends of the Marienbibliothek zu Halle e. V. by Jutta Eckle, Halle 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-052539-1 .
  • Knowledge store of the Reformation. The Marienbibliothek and the library of the orphanage in Halle . Edited by Doreen Zerbe. Publishing house of the Francke Foundations, Halle 2016, ISBN 978-3-447-10672-6 .
  • Experienced strangers. Travel reports from the early modern period in the Marienbibliothek zu Halle (Saale) . Edited by Jutta Eckle on behalf of the Friends of the Marienbibliothek zu Halle e. V. Halle 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-058806-8 .
  • The scholars of the Olearius family in Halle an der Saale . Edited by Jutta Eckle on behalf of the Friends of the Marienbibliothek zu Halle e. V. Halle 2020, ISBN 978-3-00-065007-9 .

Info flyer

  • The Marienbibliothek zu Halle an der Saale. (2018)
  • The medieval Torah scroll in the Marienbibliothek zu Halle an der Saale. (2019)

Web links

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