Formerly the Imperial City Library of Lindau
The former Reichsstädtische Bibliothek Lindau (ERBe) in the Old Town Hall (1422) in the Bavarian city of Lindau (Lake Constance) is a special part of the city archive with around 15,000 volumes. It is the largest historic council and citizens library on the northern shore of Lake Constance resolved and is likely to book collections of 1528 subsequent to the Reformation, the Franciscan Friars Minor belonging to the Franciscan monastery are based. The library contains over 140 incumbents .
order
The order of the book inventory introduced around 1780, still subdivided according to size format, names the following 17 departments:
- A - natural history, physics , economics
- B - geography , genealogy , chronology, heraldry , numismatics
- C - Philosophy and Philology
- D - mathematics
- E - General and particular story
- F - Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum et Jus Publicum
- G - Bible Collection; 262 volumes
- H - exegetical writings ; 572 titles, predominantly of Reformation exegeses
- Yes - patristic , dogmatic and moral
- Jb - Theological History of Literature
- K - Mixed theological writings, especially ascetic and polemical content
- L - civil and canon law
- Ma - medicine, surgery
- Mb - alchemy
- N - Church history
- O - literary history
- P - Mixed writings and manuscripts
A handwritten location catalog was created in 1855/56 and provided with additions or revision notes until around 1950. The catalog is available online as a PDF file. The library can be used scientifically as a reference library.
Redesign
In 2013 the old town hall with the library was rebuilt for around 320,000 euros: in addition to temperature control, a vestibule and a presentation wall, a glass cube was installed to protect the valuable books.
literature
- Markus Breitwieser: The Lindau City Library in Lake Constance. An investigation into history and function. Wiesbaden, 1996.
- Karl Heinz Burmeister, Werner Dobras: The cradle prints of the former imperial city library Lindau. Sigmaringen, 1976.
- Handbook of the historical book collections in Germany, Vol. 12: Bayern IR. Hildesheim, Zurich, New York, 1996, pp. 53–56: Werner Dobras: Lindau. City Library (Formerly Imperial City Library).
Web links
- Website of the City of Lindau - Formerly the Imperial City Library (City Library) (also for the location catalog )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lindauer Bürgerzeitung with the official gazette of the city of Lindau (B.) from October 12, 2013 / issue week 41/13