Aachen City Library

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Aachen City Library - entrance area and side wing
Aachen City Library - main wing

The Aachen City Library is a public library . It is the most heavily used cultural institution in the city of Aachen .

Library system

Inner-city, handicapped accessible central library (Couvenstraße 15) with adult library, children's and youth library, music library, internet and multimedia center, Aachen department and reading garden, located directly at the bus station.

There are district libraries in Haaren and in the Talstrasse depot in Aachen's northern district . The Fabian book bus stops at 21 locations in the city, which are served weekly.

history

Today's book and media center Aachen City Library owes its origin to the initiative of a citizen of Aachen. The publicist, enlightener and councilor Peter Josef Franz Dautzenberg , who died in 1828, had given his systematically structured library to the city in his will on the condition that it would be combined with the council library, which had not been public until then, and made accessible to the public.

The baroque town hall and the market around 1840

The scientific city library, aimed at the educated middle class, was opened on July 18, 1831 in the coronation hall of the Aachen city hall . The idea of ​​making books available to the public originated in the Napoleonic era. After access to a number of extensive scholarly libraries , including that of the Prussian diplomat from Burtscheid and co-founder of the Aachen history society, Alfred von Reumont, and the Aachen historian and city archivist Karl Franz Meyer and Karl Franz Leonhard Meyer , the library received on July 1, 1889 Emil Fromm a full-time and professionally trained manager for the first time.

For a while the city library was in the old redoubt . The picture collection was between the bookshelves.

In May 1897, the city library moved into a specially constructed building on the fish market. In 1936 the city council decided to found a city library. It was opened in 1940 in a new building on Peterstrasse. After war damage, the city library also received a new building next to the city library in 1957. In 1957 the city library opened a library for children and young people, followed by the music library in 1967. City library and city library were merged in 1977 by a council resolution to form the new public library of the city of Aachen.

In 1980 the current library building in Couvenstrasse was moved into. Since June 2008 it has again been called the Aachen City Library . The onleihe Region Aachen started in 2014 . In 2018, a dedicated youth library opened under the name youthfactory , followed a year later by the digital worlds with VR offers, an international press portal press reader and a digi-bar for converting individual formats.

Important and integrated private libraries (selection)

Heads and directors until 1945

Dates and numbers

Currently (2019) 34,034 active users are registered, as well as 672,875 loans, 377,000 visitors, 224,750 open access media and over 200,000 online access to licensed databases such as DigiBib, Nexis, Munzinger. In addition, digitized historical newspapers ('Aachener Anzeiger', 'Aachener Zeitung', 'Echo der Gegenwart') received an additional 245,516 hits.

In addition, around 17,800 participants attended a total of 977 events.

literature

  • Catalog of the city library of Aachen . Beaufort, Aachen 1834 ( MDZ Munich ).

Web links

Commons : Stadtbibliothek Aachen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates and figures (2019) , on the pages of the city library
  2. ↑ Homepage of the newspaper portal NRW

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '39.66 "  N , 6 ° 5' 24.08"  O