Amberg Provincial Library
| Amberg Provincial Library | |
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| founding | 1804 |
| Duration | 120,000 volumes |
| Library type | scientific regional library |
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Amberg 
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| ISIL | DE-54 |
| management | Siglinde Kurz |
| Website | www.provinzialbibliothek-amberg.de |
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The Amberg Provincial Library (also Amberg State Library ) in Amberg is the regional library of the Free State of Bavaria in the region. As a scientific library , it is available to all interested parties from the region for scientific purposes as well as for professional work and advanced training. The library's collection mandate includes the procurement, bibliographical indexing and archiving of publications on Amberg and the central and northern Upper Palatinate .
Duration
The library has a holdings of 120,000 media items and almost 100 magazines.
The old inventory, which comes mainly from the former library of the Jesuit College Amberg and the abolished monastery libraries in the region, such as B. ensdorf abbey , monastery Michelfeld , Reichenbach Abbey , Abbey Speinshart , Monastery Walderbach , Waldsassen monastery and convent Weißenohe , amounts to approximately 35,000 volumes. These include 308 incunabula and 1750 early prints (published up to 1550).
history
In the course of secularization , numerous regional libraries were founded in Bavaria . The Amberg Provincial Library was one of the first to be built and was initially housed in the abandoned Salesian convent. A total of almost 50,000 volumes were collected between 1805 and 1808, which were sorted and cataloged by two former Benedictines appointed librarians, Maurus von Schenkl fromChecking and Joseph Moritz from Ensdorf.
A fire in 1815 caused around a third of the holdings, around 16,500 volumes, to be lost. Some of the rescued volumes were immediately taken to the Maltese building (the former Jesuit college), the rest of the books and the shelves followed in 1826. The library found its permanent home in the library room (owned by the Catholic Church Foundation St. Georg since 1925).
From 1893 the library was rearranged by high school professor Johann Drescher. The library survived two world wars and difficult post-war times with inflation and currency reform unscathed. In 1963 the library received its first full-time librarian . In 1977, the Studienseminar Foundation rented rooms in the Maltese four-wing complex. An extension building with a connection to the old building could be moved into in 2003 along this wing.
literature
- Walter Lipp and Harald Gieß: The State Library (Provincial Library) Amberg and its legacy from the Upper Palatinate monastery libraries. Amberg, State Library (1991)
Web links
- Official website
- Entry in the Fabian manual
