Wesel City Library

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Wesel City Library
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founding 1946
Duration ~ 96,000
Library type Communal library
place Wesel coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 29.8 ″  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 42.2 ″  EWorld icon
ISIL DE-171 (city library in the center)
operator City of Wesel
Website www.wesel.de

The Wesel City Library is a municipal library in the city center of Wesel on the Lower Rhine. The facility, originally launched in 1925, was re-established in 1946 and has been located next to today's town hall since 1975 after several relocations. It offers around 96,000 media, including digital holdings and CDs.

Location and building

The library is located on Ritterstrasse in downtown Wesel. It is part of a building complex that includes the town hall and the Wesel-Hamminkeln-Schermbeck adult education center and was opened in 1975. The Kornmarkt and the Wesel Municipal Theater are in the immediate vicinity. The city library occupies two floors of the building. It is supplemented by the Wesel City Archive, which is located in the Wesel Citadel and offers historical literature and writings.

history

In 1925 a library was opened in the historic Wesel town hall . In 1934 it moved to the old commandant's building. The holdings were destroyed during the Second World War and a new beginning was set in September 1946 with the establishment of a library in a barrack on Gelissstrasse in the Schepersfeld district . It was officially reopened on November 11, 1946. The inventory was then expanded and the library moved several times, first to the Reitzenstein barracks on Friedenstrasse . With the move to the first post-war town hall near the historic location of Mathenakirche , it returned to the city center in 1952 and from 1958 it was housed in the Stadtwerkehaus on the corner of Esplanade and Kreuzstrasse. The moves were always due to a lack of space.

In August 1972 the construction of the building complex around the new town hall began and on January 2, 1975 the education center with the city library and adult education center was opened. The library, which had previously been closed for four months, had around 1,100 square meters with around 30,000 media available at the time. Use was possible again from January 16, 1975. The Wesel city library was the first library in a medium-sized town to use data traffic to control loans. This worked through an electronic pen that read barcodes.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City library (wesel.de)
  2. ↑ The inner city of Wesel (wesel.nurickt.de)
  3. ↑ City library celebrates with ceremony, reading, chronicle (rp-online.de)
  4. ↑ a b Treasures from the history of the library (derwesten.de)
  5. ↑ There is still a hunger for reading (derwesten.de)
  6. ↑ Martin Wilhelm Roelen, Doris Rudolfs-Terfurth (Ed.): The reconstruction of the city of Wesel, p. 206
  7. ↑ Key date: January 2nd, 1975 - opening of the center (wesel.de)