State Library Passau
| State Library Passau | |
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 City library with Allerheiligen minster tower
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| founding | 1612 as the library of the Passau Jesuit College |
| Library type | Regional library |
| place | Passau |
| ISIL | DE-154 |
The Passau State Library is a public academic library , primarily of the humanities , and is sponsored by the Free State of Bavaria . It is the regional library of the Free State of Bavaria for the administrative region of Lower Bavaria . Since 1987 she has the right to deposit copies .
The library is housed in the building of the former Jesuit alumnate in Michaeligasse. In addition, she continues to use the premises of her previous location in the former Jesuit college , today's Leopoldinum grammar school .
Further holdings can be found in the former prince-bishop's court library, which is now part of the Cathedral Treasury and Diocesan Museum .
She also manages the old stock of the Johannes Turmair high school in Straubing .
Stocks
The State Library has around 320,000 media units, plus 150 manuscripts and 322 incunabula . It administers the old holdings (before 1850) of the state secondary schools in Lower Bavaria, the Passau Episcopal Library (approx. 60,000 volumes) and the library of the Passau Natural Science Association (approx. 6,000 volumes). Approx. 16,400 volumes are placed in the open access area of the reading room. Special collecting areas are Bavarian and Austrian history, Lower Bavarian local history and literature, emblematics, Jesuitica, bibliophilia, book and printing history, as well as publications on book painting.
Treasures
Most of the manuscripts and early prints of the Passau State Library came to the library from the Formbach Monastery ( Vornbach ) in the course of secularization . In addition to the Formbach missal , a missal from around 1430/50 and a psalter from around 1434 in the Seeon Abbey , the Formbacher Bible is a showpiece , a full Bible decorated with miniature paintings around 1421 (without psaltery). Among the incunabula, the Speculum Historiale , printed in 1474 by Vinzenz von Beauvais , and the second part of the Bible edition printed in 1477 by Günther Zainer in Augsburg , stand out.
Wunderkammer
In 2015, the Passau State Library set up a cabinet of curiosities in which, in addition to its own exhibits, permanent loans from the Bavarian National Museum , the Five Continents Museum , the State Collections of Antiquities and various main customs offices are on display.
history
The library as an institution dates back to the library of the Jesuit College in Passau , which was founded in 1612 . After the library's holdings were almost completely destroyed during the two city fires in 1662 and 1680, the holdings were rebuilt in 1692 thanks to the bequest of Passau Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Maximus Stainer . Around 1740, the library rooms in the east wing of the Jesuit college, which are still used today, were redesigned in the Rococo style. With the abolition of the Jesuit order, their library was converted into the Prince-Bishop's Academic Library .
In the course of secularization , the library was converted into the Royal Library in 1803 and served as a reception point for the dissolved libraries of the surrounding religious libraries. Significant holdings came from the Capuchin monastery in Passau , the Franciscan monastery in Passau , the Augustinian canons of St. Nikola vor Passau , the Benedictine monastery in Formbach , the Premonstratensian monastery of St. Salvator near Griesbach and the Cistercian monastery in Aldersbach . During this time, the inventory has more than doubled to 24,000 volumes. As a provincial and grammar school library , it served the grammar school (a successor to the Jesuit college) and the newly founded Lyceum, which later became the Philosophical-Theological University of Passau, as a library. From 1809 to 1818 Johann Baptist Durach had the task of merging the holdings and compiling a catalog . The further expansion took place in 1890/91 by expanding the premises and in 1920 by moving into a new, large reading room in the former Jesuit college.
Since 1945 it has been called the Passau State Library . In 1972 they moved into the building at Michaeligasse 11, which was originally built in 1630/39 as a Jesuit aluminate. The inner courtyard of the building was converted into a reading room. The previously used rooms in the former Jesuit college in the immediate vicinity will continue to be used. Since 1987 it has been the deposit copy library for the Lower Bavaria administrative region .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A cabinet of curiosities for Passau. Passau State Library, accessed on August 12, 2016 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 27.5 ″ N , 13 ° 28 ′ 14.6 ″ E