Greifswald City Library
| Greifswald City Library "Hans Fallada" |
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 The middle of the three library houses
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| founding | 1897 as a public library |
| Duration | 73,000 media |
| Library type | communal library |
| place | Greifswald |
| ISIL | DE-1823 |
| operator | City of Greifswald |
| management | Anja Mirasch |
| Website | Website of the Greifswald City Library |
The city library "Hans Fallada" Greifswald , founded in 1897, is a public library in the West Pomeranian city of Greifswald . Since 1993 it has been named after the writer Hans Fallada, who was born in Greifswald on July 21, 1893 .
Building history of the library building
For the three buildings at Knopfstrasse 18-20, the medieval building history can only be explained using general statements on urban development and its house shapes, as information on the properties is only available in the city archives from around 1590 onwards. The development of the quarters between Knopfstraße and Hunnenstraße, the former Hafenstraße and Domstraße, including the development around the market square, can be assigned to the Hanseatic merchant settlement. The predominant form of house for merchants in the Middle Ages was the residential warehouse. Usually with the gable facing the street, it housed the functions of living, working (trading) and storage under one roof. Particularly wealthy merchants owned land that went through to the next street, from where they had an access road and mostly received another storage building on this side. (The property at Knopfstrasse (18) and Brüggstrasse (11), today's paper house, are an example of this.) The design of the street gable mostly reflected the wealth and pride of its owners. Towards the end of the 16th century, the powerfully structured gable in the style of the Flemish late renaissance was built on Knopfstrasse 20. At this point in time, the residential storage house was obsolete as a residential and house form and was replaced by new forms, e.g. B. replaced the house in the eaves position to the street in baroque style details and the separately created storage building. In 1722 No. 18, the "Goldener Löwe" inn, was described as "shortly before the invasion"; in 1746 it was rebuilt. No. 19 was broken off in 1717. In the middle of the 18th century, No. 18 was essentially given the layout that existed until it was converted into a library. The basement was probably taken over from an older building and, with its ribbed vaults, is a special feature in Greifswald under the cellar ceilings, which are otherwise only made with wooden beam ceilings. The street facade was brought into the shape still visible today in the first half of the 19th century.
No. 19 was undeveloped for a long time and was only rebuilt around 1800 as a presumably classicist eaves house for residential purposes. Today's street front was given its current design around 1891 and in 1932 the front door to the courtyard was redesigned.
No. 20 is likely to have been the most consistent over all time. The most important conversion up to the conversion to the library took place around 1850, on the ground floor again in 1867.
Merchants used to be listed as house owners; in the 19th century, butchers and horse butchers were owners.
After many years of reconstruction, the city library was able to move into the building complex in August 1989.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Fallada City Library> Info. Hans Fallada City Library, accessed March 7, 2019 .
Web links
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 48 " N , 13 ° 22 ′ 56.8" E