North Elbian church library
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| founding | 1894 |
| Duration | 135,000 |
| Library type | Special library |
| place | Hamburg |
| ISIL | DE-H99 |
| Website | http://nkb.nordkirche.de/ |
The Northelbian church library was renamed after the church in church in northern Germany Lutheran Evangelical in North Church Library NKB renamed and is a specialist library for theology, church and religion in Hamburg with the status of salaried work of the North Church .
The library was founded in 1894/95 as a training tool for prospective pastors under the name of the candidate library . The initiator was the main pastor at St. Michaelis , Georg Behrmann . In 1929, the library was renamed the Landeskirchliche Bücherei ( Regional Church Library ) due to functions that soon went beyond the training of pastors . After the Second World War, the library began to support the Church University of Hamburg and the Protestant Theology department of the university. She received her first full-time director in 1957, the name was changed to the Landeskirchliche Bibliothek in 1966 and in 1969 the library was given its own building on Grindelallee. This had to be given up in 2005, since then the library has been located in the Dorothee-Sölle-Haus in Hamburg-Altona .
The inventory comprises around 135,000 media. The main focus of the collection is on the church history of Northern Germany, practical theology , hymnology and hymn books as well as current publications by the Northern Elbish Church. (Status 1/2007)
In 2002, the library attracted public attention and fierce criticism by selling part of the valuable old holdings of the Ottilie von Ahlefeldt library from the Itzehoe monastery that was entrusted to it .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '52.8 " N , 9 ° 56' 13.4" E