Lörrach City Library
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 Logo of the Loerrach City Library
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| founding | 1993 |
| Duration | 88,500 media units |
| Library type | public library |
| place | Loerrach |
| ISIL | DE-893 |
| Website | http://bibliothek.loerrach.de/ |
The Lörrach City Library is a public library in the city of Lörrach . With around 88,500 media, 69,000 of which are books alone, it is the largest library in the Lörrach district . The city library is affiliated with the regional library portal and the German Internet library . There is also a joint digital research portal with the Weil am Rhein city library . With over 516,000 loans in 2008, the city library came in 9th place in the nationwide comparative index BIX among cities with between 30,000 and 50,000 inhabitants.
Existence and use
The Lörrach City Library currently owns a total of 88,500 media, including around 69,000 books, 24,000 CD, DVD, CD-ROM, videos and cassettes, 530 games and cards and 160 magazines. Most of these media are in open access , a small part of it is stored in the library magazine, current journals are in the reference inventory . In 1993, when it opened, the library had around 33,000 media units.
On the first floor of the library there is a reading café, registration and the issue / return counter as well as a reading room for magazines and newspapers. The children's and youth library is located on the first floor. The second floor houses the regional holdings, reference works and non-fiction books. Fiction , video films and sound carriers for music and literature are located on the third floor of the attic . There is also a seminar room, administration rooms and a room for the warehouse stock. In the basement there is an event room with rows of seats that rise towards the rear, similar to an auditorium . The room has 95 seats, a screen and technical aids. It is mainly used for readings and lectures. Since 1998, the Lörrach Library Talks , which are held annually in April together with Südwestrundfunk Freiburg, have been a literary highlight.
The district libraries in Brombach and Haagen are affiliated with the Lörrach city library.
building
The current premises of the Lörrach City Library in the inner city area opposite the Evangelical City Church - Basler Strasse 152, corner of Kirchstrasse - were opened on January 15, 1993 after renovations by architects Roland Mayer and Günter Pfeifer . The library is located in a multi-storey Art Nouveau corner building on Basler Strasse. The renovation costs totaled DM 5.6 million .
The building was originally built as a button department store in a modern reinforced concrete construction based on a design by the Freiburg architect Philipp Walther and opened in 1911 after a year of construction. The building is one of the early reinforced concrete or reinforced concrete structures in what is now Baden-Württemberg. The representative new building replaced a previous building also used by the button company. The commercial building dominated the center and set new standards in Lörrach, which was in a growth phase due to the incorporation of Stetten in 1908. In 1932 the corner building was expanded to include a two-story exhibition hall on Adlergäßchen.
After the National Socialists “ seized power ” in 1933, a boycott was imposed on the button department store, which was in Jewish hands, through direct and indirect measures. On May 21, 1933, the address was renamed from Basler Strasse 23 to Adolf-Hitler-Strasse 152. In 1937, several Knopf branches, including the one in Lörrach, were opened by the Fritz Richter limited partnership in Freiburg as part of the "Aryanization of Jewish businesses" taken over and renamed Kaufhaus Richter . In 1950 Fritz Richter left the company and the house was taken over by the limited liability company Kaufhaus für Alle . With the reconstruction after the Second World War , the department store was renewed and in 1962 customer parking spaces were created in its vicinity. Growing competitive pressure from newly emerging department stores, such as the Merkur department store, led to the end of the department store for everyone in the 1960s .
On July 19, 1968, the city of Lörrach took over the building. At this point in time, the decision to build the new town hall in Lörrach had already been decided, so that the premises of the newly acquired property were used for the outsourcing of various municipal offices, such as the archive. In June 1976, with the completion of the town hall, the premises were rented to other institutions and companies. The tenants included the state property office, the Deutsche Bundespost , the employment office and, most recently, the Müller-Bauer company. In 1988 the local council decided to set the course for the renovation of the house so that the Lörrach library, which had been located in Nansenstrasse, could move into the building. The renovation took place between 1992 and 1993.
literature
- Gerhard Moehring : The new city library. On the history of the house Basler Strasse 152 in: Walter Jung, Gerhard Moehring (ed.): Our Lörrach 1993. A border town in the mirror of time , Lörrach-Tumringen: Kropf & Herz 1993, pages 65-80.
- Lutz Windhöfel : Architekturführer Basel 1980-2004 , A guide through the trinational city, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7643-7087-4 , pp. 96-97.
- Günter Pfeifer : In- between spaces: buildings and projects; 1975-2000 . Syntagma, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-940548-32-0 , pp. 212-217.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lörrach City Library in numbers ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Funding database for libraries
- ↑ Lörrach City Library Development Planning ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2009 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. (pdf)
- ^ Badische Zeitung: City library among the top 10 in the federal government , July 15, 2009
- ^ Moehring: The new city library , page 79
- ^ A b Moehring: The new city library , page 78
- ^ Wilhelm Petry (arrangement): Concrete stone and artistic treatment of concrete. Meisenbach, Riffarth & Co., Munich 1913.
- ^ Moehring: The new city library , page 75
- ↑ Windhöfel: conversion of a department store for public library in: Architekturführer Basel 1980-2004 , S. 96th
Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 36.7 ″ N , 7 ° 39 ′ 37.5 ″ E