Martin Opitz Library
The Martin Opitz Library in Herne is the central library on German culture and history in Eastern Europe. She collects literature from all over Eastern Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The focus of the collections is on the regions in what is now western Poland and the Kaliningrad region - historic East Germany.
history
The library was named after Martin Opitz (1597–1639), a poet and literary theorist of the Baroque era. On September 25, 1989, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the city of Herne set up the Martin Opitz Library Foundation with financial support from the Federal Republic of Germany. Her work was based on around 80,000 volumes of books and magazines that she took over from the Library of the German East , which has been maintained by the city of Herne since 1948 .
Duration
With approx. 300,000 titles, approx. 10,000 periodicals (of which approx. 480 are kept up-to-date) and approx. 7,800 maps - including 1012 city maps - the Martin Opitz Library is the largest special library in Germany. It takes on the function of a central library for the regional collection area. It sees itself as a service facility and offers u. a. a modern digitization service.
digitalization
The Martin-Opitz-Bibliothek has been an associated member of the EBooks on Demand network since November 2012 and offers the option of having books published up to 1900 digitized as desired. The electronic reading room of the Martin Opitz Library, which is embedded in the German Digital Library, contains around 2,300 digital documents, including monographs, periodicals, maps, postcards and other materials. All digital copies are indexed with structural data.
Collections
In addition to books in German, books in Russian and Polish as well as in all other languages of the reference regions are part of the collection. Use is free for visitors.
Collection focus
- History (including local and family history, historical regional studies, church and religious history)
- Literary literature by German-speaking authors from the regions mentioned, including relevant German research
- History of the German expellees and their literary evidence
- Migration and minority research
Archives holdings
In addition to the association archive of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostdeutscher Familienforscher (Working Group of East German Family Researchers), the library also contains the association's recent additions to genealogical books and journals (since 1981) as well as numerous other personal papers and personal papers.
advancement
Today the library is funded by the city of Herne and around 70 percent by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media based on a resolution of the German Bundestag.
See also
literature
- Library of the German East in Herne. Book directory. Herne, self-published, 1959.
- Wolfgang Kessler (edit.): Library of the German East. Inventory catalog. 4 volumes. Herne, 1982/82/84/87. (Volume 1: Northeast Germany ( East Prussia , West Prussia , Pomerania , Mecklenburg ) / Volume 2: Brandenburg - Prussia , Northeast Europe ( Baltic Sea region , Poland , Baltic States , Russia , Soviet Union ) / Volume 3: Silesia / Volume 4: Bohemian countries , Southeast Europe ( Hungary , Romania , Carpathian countries ))
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