Rees Public Library
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 Rees Public Library
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| founding | 1952 |
| Duration | 31,000 |
| Library type | Communal library |
| place | Rees |
| ISIL | DE-797 |
| Website | www.stadtbuecherei-rees.de |
The city library Rees is the municipal library of the city Rees .
history
The Rees City Library was opened on February 22, 1952 under the name Rees Local Library as part of the Rees District Library . The library was initially housed in the town hall. After the district library was closed, it moved into a shop on the market as the Rees City Library. In 1975 the library moved to the vacant listed building at Markt 18. In August 1977 the renovation was completed and the Rees public library was reopened. At that time, the library had 17,648 books available on two floors. By the end of the 1980s, the inventory had grown to over 30,000 books, which reached over 70,000 loans per year. With the renovation and conversion of the neighboring building, which is also listed, the city library was expanded in 2007 on the first and second floors.
building
The building of the city library was built between 1860 and 1870 in the style of late classicism in the transition to historicism as a residential and office building for a brewery. The representative two-storey, colored plastered main house has a symmetrical, five-axis entrance facade to the market. The central two-winged entrance door has a three-part skylight. A hipped roof with a richly stepped, profiled and cantilevered eaves cornice is located above a very low mezzanine floor . To the left of the residential building is the former brewery building, which is set back by two axes. The three-axis, two-and-a-half-storey former company building was built in neoclassical forms and later changed. It has a gable roof with a gable facing the market. Since the building corners of the plastered facade recede slightly, the impression of a pilaster structure is created between the window axes. The two buildings are separated by a narrow alley through which a windowed archway leads. The keystone above the arch bears the year 1919. The house was the home of the Lower Rhine painter Heinz Scholten (1894–1967), who is exhibiting several works in the Scholten room of the Koenraad Bosman Municipal Museum .
offer
Since the 1990s, music cassettes have been added to the library's media inventory, and videos and CDs have been added later. As part of the multimedia information supply project supported by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , CD-ROMs and Internet access found their way into the city library in 1997. Since 2013, the Library on taking eLibrary -Verbund eLibrary Niederrhein part. In addition to media lending, the library also offers author readings and other events. In addition, the city library has been participating in the city festival with a book flea market since 1992, and the library has been organizing the annual book market on the Rhine promenade since 2002. Since 2003 she has been organizing the Tom Sawyer Prize , a nationwide student writing competition that is held every two years by the city of Rees.
literature
- Sigrid Wagener: Rees City Library. In: biblio: bulletin of the state conference of the state library offices in North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 3/4, 1977, pp. 74f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rees City Library. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 3, 2017 ; Retrieved February 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Karl-Heinz Hohmann: City of Rees on the Lower Rhine. City center and Haus Aspel (= Rheinische Kunststätten. Issue 440). 1st edition. Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Neuss 1999, ISBN 3-88094-836-4 , pp. 22-23.
- ↑ Anneliese Etz-Koch: Heinz Scholten. Viewing images . Volksbank Rees, 1986, p. 9
Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 27.3 " N , 6 ° 23 ′ 45.4" E