Brugg City Library

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The Zimmermannhaus, the location of the city library

The Brugg City Library is a public library in Brugg in the canton of Aargau . It was founded in 1640 and is the first of its kind in Aargau. Today it is located in the Zimmermannhaus at Vorstadt 17.

history

It was founded by Schultheiss Hans Friedrich Effinger; For 160 years it was housed in the hall on the top floor of the Latin school. After the end of the Ancien Régime , the existing books and pictures were sold; It was not until 1864 that the district teacher Bäbler took the initiative to found a new city library. Since 1869 the city made the premises for the library available. From 1943 the library was located in the Zimmermannhaus, in 1969 it moved to the “Alte Post” before moving to the Zimmermannhaus again in the 1980s after the renovation. The reasons for the move were the sharp increase in the number of loans and the increased number of books. At that time, the library ranked fourth in the canton of Aargau (after Baden , Aarau and Zofingen ) with over 50,000 books on loan .

Although numerous new media types such as DVDs and audio books were added to the range in the 1990s and 2000s, the number of loans only rose to just over 85,000 loans by 2017. This means that the number of loans is just a quarter of the Aarau City Library with its 320,000 loans. Due to a lack of space and the low number of loans, the media inventory was reduced from 30,000 books and films to just 22,000 media.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report Brugg City Library 2017. In: Brugg City Library website (PDF; 3.9 MB).
  2. ^ Aarau City Library. Annual report 2017. The most important points in brief. In: Aarau City Library website (PDF; 2.08 MB).
  3. ↑ Claudia Meier: Next, a few shelves have to be removed. In: Aargauer Zeitung . April 9, 2017 (archived on the Brugg City Library website; PDF; 563 kB).

Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '11.5 "  N , 8 ° 12' 26.7"  E ; CH1903:  657,941  /  259814