Detmold City Library
| Detmold City Library | |
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| founding | 1948 |
| Library type | library |
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Detmold 
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| ISIL | DE-769 |
| operator | City of Detmold |
| management | Manuela Piche |
| Website | www.stadtbuecherei-detmold.de |
The City Library (formerly: City Library) Detmold is the municipal library of the city of Detmold . It has been located in the neo-classical building at Leopoldstrasse 5 , which was originally the seat of the Leopoldinum , Detmold's oldest grammar school, since 1985 .
history
The forerunner of the city library was the library of the Bildungsverein zu Detmold . The association, founded in 1881, provided a library for its members from the beginning, which could also be used by the public from 1909. The book inventory was acquired by the city in November 1935 and became the property of the state government in April 1940. The whereabouts are unknown.
The city library was opened on February 10, 1948 and was located in the premises of the Lippische Landesbibliothek . At that time, the stock comprised just 528 books and was increased through book donation campaigns. In 1951, a merger of the state library and the city library was suggested; Mayor Richard Moes ended the discussion when he advocated a public library in 1952. In October of the same year the library moved to a pavilion at Detmold Castle . The new location soon turned out to be too small, and only two years later the library moved again, this time to the former premises of the Lippische Volksblatt at Weinbergstraße 19a (from 1971 after the street was renamed Paulinenstraße 9).
In 1963, the city library joined the German Library Association .
When the formerly independent municipality of Hiddesen was incorporated into Detmold as part of the territorial reform in 1970 , the previously independent Hiddesen library became a branch of the Detmold city library. The local library was located in the Hiddes Town Hall, moved to the Haus des Gastes at the end of the town in the direction of the Hermann Monument and in 1994 moved back to the center of the town. Further local sub-libraries existed in Heidenoldendorf and Heiligenkirchen. In order to save costs, the district libraries were given up in 2003/2004, and the Hiddesen library has been run by a private initiative ever since.
In February 1973 the city library moved to the commercial building at Lange Straße 71, and at the beginning of 1985, after 1½ years of renovation work, it moved to its current location in Leopoldstraße, where the library has its own building for the first time.
In 1996 the inventory comprised 62,412 media, and 262,764 loans took place. The number fell to 232,605 loans in 2015, but there is also an increasing number of electronic loans from the online library.
In 2016 the city council decided to rename it to “Detmold City Library”.
literature
- City of Detmold (Ed.): 50 years of the Detmold City Library. 1948-1998 . Detmold 1998.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Festschrift for the 10th anniversary of the Hiddesen Library Association , accessed on July 27, 2016
- ↑ Annual review 2015 , accessed on July 27, 2016
- ^ City of Detmold: Minutes of the council meeting on November 17, 2016. City of Detmold, accessed on February 13, 2018 .