Provincial library of the Capuchins Innsbruck
The Provincial Library of the Capuchins Innsbruck is the library of the Capuchin Province Austria-South Tyrol in the Capuchin Monastery Innsbruck in the city of Innsbruck in Tyrol .
location
The provincial library is spatially part of the Capuchin Monastery on the north side of the monastery and can be reached via the monastery gate .
history
The first written evidence of the existence of a library in the Capuchin monastery in Innsbruck is the chamber order from Archduke Maximilian III. of September 13, 1604. He ordered that the purchase of books for the monastery library be paid for.
When the Capuchin Monastery of Innsbruck was elevated to a study monastery in 1615, the library became an important place for imparting knowledge . For the training of popular preachers and confessors , it was necessary to acquire specialist literature in the areas of dogmatics , canonical studies , moral theology , church history and homiletics .
Following the ordinances of the provincial chapter of 1623, a librarian was also nominated in Innsbruck to manage the library. The ban on borrowing or giving away books from the monastery library was reaffirmed at the provincial chapter in Braunau am Inn in 1653.
The age of Josefinism brought the abolition of the Innsbruck home school in 1783 and the abolition of the Innsbruck Capuchin monastery in 1787. The book holdings of the Capuchin Library came to the Lyceum, today's University and State Library of Tyrol .
After the monastery was returned in 1802, the private school in the Capuchin monastery in Innsbruck resumed its theological studies in 1833. In 1876, a new monastery library was built on the northeast side of the monastery, which in 1907 contained around 10,500 books.
During the Second World War in 1940, the Capuchin monastery in Innsbruck was again closed. Valuable holdings in the monastery library were destroyed in Frastanz .
With the general renovation of the Innsbruck Capuchin monastery in 1993/94, new rooms were created for the library and archive. The library was built as the provincial library of the North Tyrolean Capuchin Province. Through the merger of the Viennese with the North Tyrolean Capuchin Province in 2007, it became the provincial library of the Austrian Capuchin Province. Since the merger of the Austrian Capuchin Province with the Capuchin Province of Bressanone to form the Capuchin Province of Austria-South Tyrol in 2011, the province has two provincial libraries, one in Innsbruck and one in Bressanone .
The library is subordinate to the provincial superior , who ensures that financial support is secured and that the guidelines are adhered to.
Librarians since 1886
- 1886–1897 P. Michael Hetzenauer from Zell near Kufstein
- 1897–1898 P. Raphael Hutter von Fulpmes
- 1898–1899 P. Gotthard Pfeiffer von Schwaz
- 1899–1901 P. Sigismund Ruschitzka from Munich
- 1901–1902 P. Michael Hetzenauer from Zell near Kufstein
- 1902–1907 P. Simon Lungkofler von Abfaltersbach
- 1907–1912 P. Celerin Thaler von Brixen
- 1912–1914 Father Antonin Kasseroler von Gufidaun
- 1914–1918 P. Virgil Wass von Werfenweng
- 1918–1923 P. Josef Cupertin Braun von Riedlingen
- 1923–1924 P. Virgil Wass von Werfenweng
- 1924–1925 P. Mansuet Sax von Sulzbach
- 1925–1927 P. Valerian Vieider of Innsbruck
- 1927–1935 P. Sebald Sakowski von Langenberg
- 1935–1937 P. Virgil Wass von Werfenweng
- 1937–1940 P. Titus Egle von Koblach
- 1945–1956 P. Kilian Gut von Klaus
- 1956–1965 P. Andreas Weiß von Werfen
- 1966–2002 Br. Hans Norbert Huber von Brixen
- 2003 - Manfred Massani
tasks
- Inventory build-up: The focus is on the collection of works that express Franciscan spirituality , of reference works primarily from the fields of biblical studies and theology, and of works by writers of the Capuchin Order, in particular of their own Capuchin Province.
- Books as a cultural asset : Safekeeping and preservation of the oldest book holdings in the Capuchin Province , advising the provincial superior in the event of the closure of branches with regard to the further use of the book holdings and the guardians in library matters are important tasks in this area, in addition to creating appreciation for books as a cultural asset.
- Indexing : The librarian has the task of making it easier to look up and question the book inventory. This is done through two online catalogs and two card catalogs.
- Public relations : The library offers the opportunity to borrow current literature. There are guided tours in the church, monastery and library for school classes. Paper scooping and medieval writing with ink and pen are intended to enable children and young people to take a look at the history of the book in a practical way. These are two of several events held each year.
- Networking : Due to the global presence of the Capuchin Order , the library has been mandated to network with other Capuchin libraries. The result is the International Catalog for Franciscan Literature, which has been providing users with online information about the book inventory of 36 Capuchin libraries since 2002 and is expanded every year. The provincial library is also a member of various library associations: the Association of Austrian Librarians , the Working Group of Catholic-Theological Libraries and the ARGE Order Libraries .
Media inventory
In terms of their holdings , the monastery libraries are the Capuchin utility libraries with predominantly theological literature in the areas of liturgy, ascetics and pastoral theology. In the study houses of the order, the libraries have the character of theological specialist libraries with a partially specific orientation.
The library of the Capuchins in Innsbruck is a mixed type: monastery library since 1604, from 1615 to 1968 an additional study library and since 1994 provincial library.
The main focus of the book collection lies in the field of biblical studies , history , biographies , liturgy , pastoral theology and spirituality . Numerous works by Capuchin and Franciscan authors are documented. The old stock, prints before 1800, with 4575 volumes makes up approx. 10% of the total stock. The library also has 278 incunabula .
Infrastructure
The library consists of a reading room, which serves as a work and event room, and a magazine, where the library's book inventory is stored in 59 mobile compact shelves and 7 standing shelves.
Image gallery
Magazine of the provincial library of the Capuchins Innsbruck
View of the Innsbruck Capuchin Provincial Library from the south
The monastery library of the Innsbruck Capuchins before the renovation in 1993/94
literature
- Agapit Hohenegger; Peter Baptist Zierler, History of the Tyrolean Capuchin Order Province, Innsbruck 1913–1915, 2 vol.
- Gaudentius Walser, The fate of the Kapuziner library in Innsbruck in 400 years, in: Bote der Tiroler Kapuziner 86 (2003) 95-104.
- Gaudentius Walser, After the church, the library should be most important to the confreres ..., in: Ordensnachrichten 42 (2003) 54–56.
- Michael Hetzenauer, The Capuchin Monastery of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1893.
- Optat Winder, Our Libraries, in: Bote der Tiroler Kapuziner 40 (1957) 31–34; 50-54; 81-83; 94-99; 111-117; 41 (1958) 18-27; 50-56; 79-81; 111-115; 264f.
Web links
- Web presence of the Innsbruck Capuchin Provincial Library
- Catalog of the library in the International Catalog of Franciscan Literature
- Library catalog at Libraries Online
- Engraving database of the library
- Library incunabula
- Gaudentius Walser, The Fate of the Capuchin Library in Innsbruck for 400 Years.