Iserlohn City Library
| Iserlohn City Library | |
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 Old Town Hall (main library)
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| Library type | Public library |
| place | Iserlohn |
| ISIL | DE-236 (Iserlohn City Library) |
| operator | City of Iserlohn |
| management | Gudrun Völcker |
| Website | stadtbuecherei-iserlohn.de |
The city library Iserlohn is the Municipal Library of Iserlohn . In addition to the main office in the city center, there is a branch in the Letmathe district .
The Iserlohn library has existed since 1910. Since 1976 it has been housed in the old town hall. The building was built from 1875 to 1876 (laying of the foundation stone on July 12, 1875, inauguration on August 23, 1876, entry in the list of monuments on June 20, 1983). The Letmath branch is located in the former mansion Haus Letmathe .
Forerunner of today's city library
The resolution passed on January 1, 1906 by the Iserlohn city council to set up a “public library and a public reading room” was preceded by a recommendation of the same wording to create such a communal facility in 1898. Efforts to respond to the reading needs of the population can be traced back to the year 1784, when a “reading society” was mentioned for the first time in the city. A citizen's private library is mentioned for the year 1819, although it cannot be determined whether it was identical to the private lending library dated to 1828 and comprising 6,000 volumes.
Around 1850 reading facilities such as the “Allgemeine Leseverein” or the “Volks- und Bürgerbibliothek” were set up by bookshops and thus offered the public free access to literature in addition to the existing reading circles . In addition, the Iserlohner "Bildungsverein" (founded probably in 1868/69) and the "Kaufmänneische Verein" (founded in 1869) maintained libraries, which, however, were only available to their members.
The first municipal library was opened on May 1, 1910 in the so-called "Schrimpff House"; the financing for the acquisition of a basic stock of books was largely made possible by a municipal foundation. The books were intended to provide instruction and entertainment, to provide an overview of the mainstreams of literature at the time, but also to provide information on the natural sciences, general cultural history and political history. Since the school's own libraries offered books for young people, a youth department was not set up at first. In 1916 the public library moved to the “old armory”, which was a spatial improvement. The Iserlohners' interest in reading remained high despite the poor economic situation in the years after the First World War ; in 1927, the city even bought free library tickets, which were given to the unemployed and widows. Under the direction of Gustav Whitsun in 1935, the National Socialists carried out a “cultural cleansing ... which also misused the library for their“ educational work ”” .
After the Second World War , the library was temporarily housed in a hall of a former economy in July 1945 and was able to resume lending operations in September of the same year after the National Socialist literature had been removed from the holdings. The move to the Haus der Heimat took place in February 1949. Just one year later, the strong demand from the population made it necessary to set up a branch of the city library in a school building in Obergrüne. With the move to the more spacious rooms of the “Old Town Hall” on September 24, 1976, the city library got a more central location within the city; At the same time, the magazine was switched to the freehand principle . There had been an independent library in Letmathe since 1936: the branch of the city library moved into this in 1975. Since 1978 it has been in "Haus Letmathe".
Existence and tasks of the modern city library
A total of 90,000 media are available. The share of new media (CD, DVD, software) has increased continuously in recent years and public internet places have been set up for all visitors. Foreign-language literature is also increasingly being made available to promote the integration of foreign residents. The number of loans was 400,000 in 2006. They have more than doubled since 1983.
In the area of reading promotion , the library tries to arouse interest through readings in primary school classes in the city. With this project, the institution participates in the state initiative NRW: NEW LEARNING. The library tries to promote authors from Iserlohn and make them known through a series of events.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Götz Bettge: Iserlohn-Lexikon , Stadt Iserlohn 1987, pp. 422–423
- ↑ Press release City of Iserlohn ( Memento from March 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Project description on promoting reading ( memento from October 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Press release on the series "Reading pieces"
literature
- Ulrich Barth, Elmar Hartmann, August Kracht (edit.): Art and history monuments in the Märkischer Kreis , (= publications of the Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis; Volume 3), 2nd improved edition 1984, ISBN 3-89053-000-1 , p. 304–307 ( Iserlohn. Alter Rathausplatz 1; 6.42 former town hall )
- Götz Bettge: Iserlohn-Lexikon , Stadt Iserlohn 1987, ISBN 3-922885-37-3 , p. 141 (Lemma Alter Rathausplatz 1 ) and p. 422–423 (Lemma Stadtbücherei )
- E. Grüber (ed.): The old town hall from 1876 , in: Iserlohn. The new town hall, Iserlohn 1974
- K. Rosenthal: The town hall in a new guise , in: Der Danzturm 4/1968
- Wilhelm Schulte: Iserlohn. The history of a city , Volume 1, Iserlohn 1937
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Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 28.3 " N , 7 ° 41 ′ 50" E