Bremerhaven City Library
| Bremerhaven City Library | |
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 Logo of the Bremerhaven City Library
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| founding | 1873 |
| Duration | 152.039 |
| Library type | Public large city library of Section 1 in the German Library Association e. V. (dbv) (over 400,000 inhabitants) |
| place |
Bremerhaven 
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| ISIL | DE-134 |
| operator | Borough |
| management | Elke Albrecht |
| Website | www.stadtbibliothek-bremerhaven.de |
The Bremerhaven City Library is the most important library in the eponymous city . It has existed since 1873 and, after various moves and extensive destruction in the Second World War, has been on the 2nd floor of the Hanse-Carré since 2005 (Bürgermeister-Smidt-Str. 10). There are around 127,000 media from the adult, children's and music department on an area of 2,150 m².
history
The city library was founded in 1873 on the initiative of Leopold von Vangerow , a member of the Bremerhaven municipal council, and the Bremen Senate Commissioner for the port cities Hermann Albert Schumacher . In Bremen several libraries were supposed to be merged into one city library and many duplicates were incurred. Schumacher got in touch with the Bremen librarian Johann Georg Kohl , who in turn made Leopold von Vangerow the promise to put together suitable works as a gift for the Bremerhaven City Library. On September 22nd, 1873, the library, whose initial holdings comprised 5319 volumes, was opened in the boys' primary school (later the Goethe School ). In addition to the Bremen libraries, the Chamber of Commerce had donated, but also private collectors from Bremen and Bremerhaven, the Nautical Association and the Bremen Archive. The first (part-time) librarian was the teacher Tanzmann, who received 300 marks annually as compensation and opened the library for an hour twice a week. By 1880 the holdings had grown to 10,650 volumes through donations and purchases as well as through the holdings of the school libraries; in 1904 it was already 17,260. In 1889 the company moved to the ground floor of the town hall, and in 1893 to the second floor. In 1904 the house moved again to the second floor of the Städtische Sparkasse. After a tour of the Bremen library , the local council decided to take over the local magazine system so that 30,000 volumes could be put up. However, as a result, the previous open access was replaced by the counter book edition. The new reading room offered space for 350 volumes of reference inventory and journals from the technical, historical and literary fields. In addition, pictures, plans and maps on the history of Bremerhaven were now housed. During the First World War, around 1,500 volumes had to be handed over to the army in 1916. The purchase budget, which was reduced during the war, was raised again to 5,000 marks.
The library should become a modern educational library in order to be able to satisfy the educational needs of academics as well. Therefore an urban central catalog was created. This was followed by the incorporation of the teacher's central library and the merger with the library of the men of the morning star , a local history library with 2000 volumes. In order to make the inventory more accessible, a systematic and key word catalog was started, and in 1930 a 500-page book index was published. On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary in 1923, the library received an annual donation of 3,000 marks as a gift from the state of Bremen. When a rental fee of 10 pfennigs was introduced per band, usage collapsed by around 30% in 1924. In 1929, more regular opening times were introduced, from 7 to 8 p.m. it was open to working people on Fridays. In 1932, Prof. Werner was followed by Otto Höver . From 1933, Jewish and Marxist writings were excluded from loan. The donations from Bremen ceased and in 1934 a contract was signed between Bremerhaven and the Prussian community of Wesermünde - Lehe and Geestemünde - on the amalgamation of the libraries, which led to the city library and the reading halls of the cities of Lehe and Geestemünde becoming the City Library Institute next year and Bremerhaven-Wesermünde public libraries were merged. The facility had a stock of 30,000 volumes, but was divided up again in 1938. A “public library” was created for education in the sense of the regime, while the “city library” department was connected to the supra-local interlibrary loan system as a scientific study library. Both departments had separate issuing offices, but shared opening times. The holdings of 40,000 volumes were destroyed by the air raid on September 18, 1944, except for 350 copies that were on loan.
When it reopened in today 's Lessing School on August 2, 1945, the library had 2085 volumes; it was open ten hours a week. In 1948 the move to the 2nd floor of town house 4 took place, in 1952 the books on loan were returned to the schools. In 1956, the Geestemünde branch (Friedrich-Ebert-Straße) opened its doors as an open access library with 3500 volumes. In the following year, the “German-American Library” became a branch of the city library (Bürger / corner of Keilstraße). The exemption from fees was linked to this donation. In 1959, the "Breitenbachstrasse" was opened as a further branch on March 13th, and in 1965 the Grünhöfe branch. In 1962 there was another move, this time to Hafenstrasse 76, and it was opened on May 21st. Under the management of Edeltraut Nobis , who had already taken over the house on April 1, 1954, the youth library was opened in the House of Youth ( Rheinstrasse ) on January 1, 1963 . This was followed by the opening of the youth library in the “Bürger” (today the parish hall of the “Great Church”) under the direction of Ursula Rosentreter .
In 1966 the new building at Deichstrasse 21 was opened. Although work began in 1964 to demolish the unfinished air raid shelter on Torfplatz, the cellar remained as a storage facility, as the demolition work was very difficult. In addition to the central library administration, the adult education center moved into the upper floor. At the same time, the "Geestemünde" branch moved into the vacant rooms of the library at Hafenstrasse 76, the new name was "Lehe" branch, headed by Gerda Roesner, the head of the main branch went to Helga Frank. Other branches followed, such as in 1967 the "Leherheide" (Julius-Leber-Platz 5) under Arthur Rosentreter or in 1968 the "Geschwister-Scholl" as a youth and school library under Barbara Hudema (until 1994). In 1975 the school library " Carl von Ossietzky " was opened under Elena Reimann. In 1978 the “Library of the Young” moved into the extension building at Deichstrasse 21 and in 1982 the music library opened on the first floor of the main office under Barbara Grevesmühl. At the same time the library in the Haus der Jugend on Rheinstrasse was closed. In 1984, Ingeborg Rodewald succeeded the head of the city library by Erdmann Steinmetz . In 1987 the Lehe branch moved from the Hafen- to the Lessingschule, which was finally closed in 1992, as did the one in Nordlehe in 1993 and the “Carl von Ossietzky” school library. 1990 began the development of the "books on wheels"
In 1997, the reading fees, which had been abolished in 1957, were reintroduced, with the exception of children and pupils. The branches “Library of the Young”, “Main Office” and “Music Library” were also merged to form the “Central Library” with a common reading card and lending desk, and in 1997 “Grünhöfe” was closed. In the meantime, the opening hours had been extended to Monday to Wednesday and Friday to 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
In 1998 electronic data processing (EDP) was introduced. In the first year there were already around 3500 CDs, 4250 MCs, 1700 LPs, 10,000 pieces of music (= sheet music), 300 videos and around 200 magazines and daily newspapers. In 2001 the EDP booking began. This year Elke Albrecht took over the management of the house. In 2004 the company moved from Deichstrasse to Hanse-Carré and reopened on January 13, 2005.
In 2007, planning began for another move, as the library was to give way to an extension of the shopping center. The new location was "Hans-Böckler-Straße". The foundation stone for the new Leherheide district library was laid on May 19, 2010, and it was opened on March 15, 2011.
literature
- Ingeborg Rodewald , Erdmann Steinmetz : 100 Years of the Bremerhaven City Library 1873–1973 , Bremerhaven 1973.
- Paul Raabe (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical book inventory. Volume 1: Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Bremen , Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim, Zurich and New York 1996, p. 326 f.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Bremerhaven City Library, figures (as of December 31, 2017), media inventory. December 31, 2017, accessed March 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Bremerhaven City Library, contact person / departments. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
- ^ Georg Bessell: The first 100 years of Bremerhaven from 1826 to 1927. European University Publishing, Bremen 2012, p. 484.