Königsberg City Library

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Library and archive on the cathedral island

The Königsberg City Library was housed in the newly built old town Pauperhaus in 1628 . Poliander bequeathed his library to the old town (Königsberg) as the foundation of the city library.

history

It was made public in 1718 by city secretary H. Bartsch. Among other things, he gave her his collection of Bibles. Other donors were Lomoller with 300 mostly legal works, in 1837 Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Younger and in 1889 City Councilor Hensche with their libraries. Rudolf Reicke donated 2,150 volumes in 1907. In 1737 the library was moved to the Old Town Latin School and in 1773 to the Old Town Hall, where a reading room was set up. In 1810 it was housed in the royal house and in 1875 in the Collegium Albertinum behind the Königsberg Cathedral .

The city library was headed by Pastor Michael Lilienthal from 1728–1748 , Christian Jakob Kraus from 1786–1804 , Friedrich Adolf Meckelburg from 1844 , August Wittich from 1875–1897 , Ernst Seraphim from 1900 , Christian Krollmann from 1923 , William Meyer from 1934 and finally Fritz Gause from 1938 .

Königsberg's city library had 106,000 volumes. They fell victim to the British air raids in 1944 . Around sixty of her manuscripts and several boxes of books were recently found in the Russian State Library .

The city ​​history museum and the registry office had been housed in the old Kneiphöf town hall since 1928 .

literature

  • Kurt Bogun: The library collection of the city library to Königsberg. In: Vierteljahrsschrift für Wappen-, Siegel- und Familienkunde 32 (1904), pp. 36–155

Footnotes

  1. ^ Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg from A to Z - a city dictionary . Leer 1972
  2. ↑ Most of the manuscripts can be found in the newly formed Fond 943 (Kaliningrad). Annotated list: Daria Barow-Vassilevitch : The Königsberg City Library and its traces in Moscow , in: Of medieval and modern holdings in Russian libraries and archives . Results of the meetings of the German-Russian working group at the Philipps University of Marburg (2012) and at the Lomonossov University of Moscow (2013), ed. by Natalija Galina , Kalus Kleine , Catherina Squires , Jürgen Wolf , Erfurt 2016 (= German-Russian research on book history 3 = special publications of the Academy for Nonprofit Sciences in Erfurt 47), pp. 57-77 ( ISBN 978-3-932295-96 -6 ).

Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 24.5 ″  N , 20 ° 30 ′ 48.8 ″  E