City Library Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

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City Library Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
City Hall Charlottenburg Entrance Stadtbücherei.jpg

City Library Charlottenburg in the Charlottenburg City Hall

founding January 3, 1898
Duration 245.403
Library type library
place Berlin
ISIL DE-B710 (District Central Library Heinrich Schulz Library)
operator District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin
management Andres Imhof
Website City Library Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

The Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf City Library is a public library system sponsored by the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin . It was created in 2001 when the districts of Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf merged by merging the two city libraries in the old districts. The library has a media inventory of 245,403, which were borrowed around 1.36 million times by 687,665 visitors in 2018. In addition, the library organized over 2,300 events, guided tours and exhibitions during the same period.

history

City library Wilmersdorf on Brandenburgische Strasse
Ingeborg Bachmann district library on Nehringstrasse

The city ​​of Charlottenburg reacted early on with many measures to the social problems and thus partly made social history. In 1898, Charlottenburg was one of the first cities in the German Empire to set up a municipal public library and thus decided to "recognize the obligation to provide for the educational needs of all strata of the population on a sufficient scale."

  • In 1898 the City Library and Reading Hall in Charlottenburg was the first public lending library in Germany based on the US and UK ideal of “public libraries”. This became today's Heinrich Schulz Library in Charlottenburg City Hall . The library was founded in 1898 as the municipal public library and reading hall of the city of Charlottenburg in the old school building in what is now Gierkezeile 39 and was able to move into the new building of the arts and crafts school , the most modern book and reading hall at the time, in Wilmersdorfer Straße (today : Eosanderstraße 1) move. In November 1943 the building was badly hit in the bombardment of Charlottenburg and burned down completely. The preserved holdings were housed in a branch at Sybelstrasse 2-4 in the building of today's Sophie-Charlotte-Oberschule in 1944 and in 1948 in the Charlottenburg Town Hall. In 1972 it was named after the social democratic educational and cultural politician Heinrich Schulz (1872-1932).
  • The Wilmersdorfer Volksbücherei is even a little older and was built in 1893 at Mehlitzstraße 2. After the First World War , it found a new place in the town hall, the former Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium , which was also used as Wilmersdorf town hall. In February the library moved into the newly built building at Brandenburgische Strasse 2, the former location of the old Wilmersdorf town hall that was destroyed in the war . The library, named in 1997 after the theologian and resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer , was the main library of the Wilmersdorf City Library until the district merger in 2001.
  • The Eberhard-Alexander-Burgh-Bibliothek goes back to a children's and youth library on the site of the 4th elementary school in Rüdesheimer Straße, which already existed in 1956. In 1971 she received the name of the American astronaut Neil Armstrong as part of a competition . Since December 1, 2009 it has been named after the writer Eberhard Alexander-Burgh (1929–2004), who bequeathed a large part of his legacy to the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district to promote projects for children and young people.
  • The Adolf Reichwein library in the town hall of Schmargendorf was built in 1900 in the community school in the Breiten Straße by the "non-profit association Schmargendorf". It was taken over in 1919 by the community of Schmargendorf and moved to Warnemünder Straße 4 and was a branch of the Wilmersdorfer city library from the incorporation of Schmargendorf into the newly created district of Wilmersdorf. In 1952 it was reopened at its current location in the Schmargendorf town hall and in 1968 was named after the educator and resistance fighter Adolf Reichwein, who was executed by the Nazis in 1944 .
  • The West District Library was built in 1908 at Danckelmannstrasse 48/49 as an open access library, where visitors could choose books themselves from the shelf, which was unusual at the time. In 1986 it was able to move into its current location in the new building at Nehringstrasse 10. On December 16, 2008, she received the name of the writer Ingeborg Bachmann .
  • The Neuwestend district library was built on August 9, 1929 in the rooms of the Herder grammar school , where it is still located today. It was named on September 24, 2008 after the writer Johanna Moosdorf , who lived in the nearby Kastanienallee.
  • The Halemweg district library was first established on November 18, 1962 as a new library in Charlottenburg-Nord after the Second World War . After 50 years of eventful history with several moves to different rooms, it is now located in the district center Halemweg 18.

In addition to these facilities, there was a children's and youth library in the Otto von Guericke School on Eisenzahnstraße and the library on Henriettenplatz , which were closed as part of austerity measures.

Facilities

There are currently 7 different facilities throughout the district.

Library locations in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district
address District Duration
Heinrich Schulz library with music library,
district central library		 Otto-Suhr-Allee 96, 10585 Berlin Charlottenburg 81,000
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Library
Central Library		 Brandenburgische Strasse 2, 10713 Berlin Wilmersdorf 68,000
Eberhard-Alexander-Burgh-Bibliothek
District library		 Rüdesheimer Strasse 14, 14197 Berlin Wilmersdorf 15,000
Adolf Reichwein Library
District library		 Berkaer Strasse 7, 14199 Berlin Schmargendorf 18,500
Ingeborg Bachmann Library
District library		 Nehringstrasse 10, 14059 Berlin Charlottenburg 29,500
Johanna-Moosdorf-Bibliothek
District library		 Westendallee 45, 14052 Berlin West end 18,500
Halemweg district library Halemweg 18, 13627 Berlin Charlottenburg-North 14,000

The Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf City Library participates in the Association of Public Libraries in Berlin (VÖBB) and is connected to the nationwide interlibrary loan system.

Cooperations

The Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf City Library cooperates with the schools in the district, the City West music school, the City West VHS and other cultural and educational institutions. The Eberhard-Alexander-Burgh-Stiftung of the writer Eberhard Alexander-Burgh , who died in Berlin in 2004, has been supporting the city library since 2008 in the field of children's literature. B. by purchasing new media boxes for school classes and daycare groups. Several series of projects to promote reading and media literacy have been carried out, and weekly reading afternoons are now possible in all family libraries. A central goal is the expansion of the “gateway to learning” area: learning processes are to be supported by a broad media mix, library lessons and offers for daycare centers are being expanded and supplemented by additional projects for children, parents and teachers.

Since May 2002 there has also been a Circle of Friends of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf City Library, made up of committed citizens of the district, which supports the City Library with book donations, events and imaginative projects.

Web links

Commons : Stadtbibliothek Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report 2018 Berlin public libraries (PDF file)
  2. ↑ 300 years of Charlottenburg in 12 chapters
  3. ^ "Yearbook of German Libraries", Ed. Association of German Librarians, Leipzig 1902, p. 18, digitized version on Google
  4. ^ History of the Charlottenburg People's Library (accessed November 4, 2017)