Heidenheim City Library
| Heidenheim City Library | |
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 The new library building (December 2017)
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| founding | 1910 |
| Duration | > 96,000 |
| Library type | library |
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Heidenheim 
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| ISIL | DE-702 (Heidenheim City Library) |
| operator | City of Heidenheim |
| management | Lydia Zebisch |
| Website | www.stadtbibliothek-heidenheim.de |
The Heidenheim City Library is the public library of the city of Heidenheim an der Brenz in Baden-Württemberg .
history
The Heidenheim City Library was founded after a municipal council resolution passed in April 1910. It was initially housed in the rooms of the weaving school at the train station, the first media came from a "public reading library" that had been privately run until then. By 1943 the collection had grown to around 2000 books. After moving several times within the city, the library was relocated to the Hallamt on Schnaitheimer Straße in 1953. From 1960 to 1968, the stock of books for young people was moved to the Haus der Jugend in the former Heinrich Voelter Villa. In 1961 the first branch was opened in the Heidenheim West School. In 1973 the Voith company library was taken over and operated as a further branch office for three years. Most of its holdings flowed into the East branch, which was inaugurated in 1979 in the works high school . In the same year the central library with around 32,000 books was moved to the first floor of the Elmar-Doch-Haus . Since 1985 it has been possible to borrow sculptures and prints from an affiliated graph library . The West and East branches were closed in 2004 and 2016, and the main branch in September 2017. Since November 2017, the Heidenheim City Library has been operated exclusively in the new library building on Willy-Brandt-Platz.
New library building
After the premises in the Elmar-Doch-Haus had already become too small for the operation of a modern library in the mid-2000s, the municipal council decided in November 2012 to build a new library building . The 4000 m² area of the Heidenheim correctional facility on Helmut-Bornefeld-Strasse, which was closed in the same year, was favored as a possible location because of its central location. In the summer of 2013, the city of Heidenheim acquired the property from the state of Baden-Württemberg for 1.175 million euros .
A realization competition was announced across Europe for the construction of the new building in 2013 . The jury chose the work of a group of applicants led by the Swiss architect Max Dudler from among 67 admitted participants . His design envisaged a narrow and elongated, cubic flat roof building with different roof and ceiling heights and large window areas. The floor plan of the 4- storey reinforced concrete structure , more than 110 m long, tapers in a north-south direction. As a facade it was given a facing made of light beige bricks.
The usable area of the library is 2040 m² and is thus almost twice as large as in the rooms previously used in the Elmar-Doch-Haus. Additional areas are planned for a foyer , various event rooms and a reading café. In addition to the city library, the building also houses the city archive , the district media center of the Heidenheim district and the administration of the city's historical museums.
The municipal council's decision on the construction project was passed in October 2014, the groundbreaking ceremony took place on July 23, 2015. The topping-out ceremony took place on June 30, 2016, and the new city library was opened on November 10, 2017.
The total cost of the project was estimated at € 18.5 million. In addition to expenses for buildings, equipment and outdoor facilities, this included € 1.8 million in planning costs and € 1.3 million for the purchase of land and the demolition of the penal institution; a further € 600,000 was calculated for the corresponding road construction measures.
See also
Web links
- Construction progress up to completion of the shell in time-lapse photography , accessed on November 5, 2017.
- Exterior and interior views, floor plans and sectional drawings at www.baunetz.de, accessed on November 5, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The history of the Heidenheim City Library ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Heidenheim City Library, accessed on November 5, 2017.
- ↑ Downloads, flyer for adults website of the Heidenheim City Library (PDF; 0.3 MB), accessed on November 5, 2017.
- ↑ The history of the Heidenheim City Library ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Heidenheim City Library, accessed on November 5, 2017.
- ↑ A last look at Heidenheim prison , Heidenheimer Zeitung from October 21, 2014, accessed on November 5, 2017.
- ↑ Competition results, municipal library (July 31, 2013) , website of the city of Heidenheim. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
- ↑ Groundbreaking ceremony on July 23, 2015 ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Heidenheim City Library. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
- ↑ On Thursday, June 30th, 2016 the topping-out ceremony of the new city library in Heidenheim was celebrated ( memento of the original of January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Heidenheim City Library, accessed on November 5, 2017.
- ↑ Opening of the new city library at Willy-Brandt-Platz 1 , website of the city of Heidenheim, accessed on November 5, 2017.
- ↑ Library: From July 2015 onwards , Heidenheimer Zeitung from October 21, 2014, accessed on November 5, 2017.
- ↑ A last look at Heidenheim prison , Heidenheimer Zeitung from October 21, 2014, accessed on November 5, 2017.
- ↑ Questions about the planned new city library - Are the total costs of the renovations and new buildings mentioned (purchase and demolition of the prison, relocations and renovations of the previous buildings)? ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the city of Heidenheim, accessed on November 5, 2017.
