Nuremberg City Library

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Entrance to the central library on the Gewerbemuseumsplatz Nürnberg (2013)

The Nuremberg City Library is the public library of the city of Nuremberg and one of the oldest municipal libraries in the German-speaking area . As a metropolitan library system, it consists of a central library, six district libraries , two mobile libraries and four school libraries .

task

The Nuremberg City Library takes care of the city's citizens; the music library and the historical-scientific city library are of national importance.

The modern building of the city library center at Gewerbemuseumsplatz 4 in downtown Nuremberg was reopened on October 24, 2012 and combines over 700,000 media under one roof:

  • Manuscripts and prints from the Historical and Scientific City Library provide evidence of over 600 years of book, library, social and intellectual history; this includes a comprehensive local and regional history collection with literature on and about Nuremberg, which has been continued to the present day and aimed at completeness
  • Largest music library in Northern Bavaria with over 45,000 media, sheet music, books, DVDs, CDs, e-piano and music practice room
  • “Young library” designed as a leisure library with youth novels, comics , mangas , Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4
  • Children's library
  • Franconian literature collection
  • Exhibition cabinet with changing exhibitions
  • Comics and picture book archive
  • Fiction, films, non-fiction, foreign-language literature, magazines, and much more.
  • Hermann Kesten newspaper café

The borrowed media can be returned to a return machine around the clock. The media stored in the magazines can be ordered via the online catalogs. Media not available on site can be borrowed via interlibrary loan.

Books, magazines and newspapers have been digitally available since March 1, 2013 and can be borrowed via the online loan .

District libraries

  • Gostenhof City Library
  • Langwasser City Library
  • Maxfeld City Library
  • St. Leonhard City Library / Villa Leon
  • Schoppershof City Library
  • City library Südstadt in the south point

history

The Nuremberg City Library emerged from a council library, the council library, which has been verifiable since 1370. The core holdings include the libraries of the monasteries in the city that were taken over after 1525. The holdings of around 3,000 manuscripts and 77,000 prints, which have grown over six centuries, are of great value as sources on the cultural and intellectual history of the city of Nuremberg from the High Middle Ages through the heyday in Renaissance and humanism to the decline in the 18th century and the new beginning in the 19th Century. A special task is the documentation of the literature published about the city of Nuremberg and Nuremberg personalities as well as the continuation of a Franconian literature collection since 1964.

Directors

Estates

The city library keeps u. a. Estates from

Mergers

Aerial view with Katharinenkloster , Luitpoldhaus with the entrance of the city library (center) near the Pegnitz and the industrial museum (above)

In 1973 the scientific city library in the former Pellerhaus was combined with the public or city library that had existed since the late 19th century. In 2011, the organizational merger with the Nuremberg Education Center (adult education center) and the Nicolaus-Copernicus-Planetarium followed to form the Nuremberg Education Campus .

Restitution of Nazi looted property

The publicist Leibl Rosenberg has been working at the Nuremberg City Library since 1997 to restitute book stocks from Nazi-looted property . The main issue here is a library set up by the Nazi functionary Julius Streicher , which had been stolen from Jewish communities and private individuals. These books are now part of the “Collection of the Israelite Religious Community” in the Nuremberg City Library.

literature

  • Sauer, Christine (Ed.): Anton Koberger. On the 500th anniversary of the death of the printer of the Schedelschen Weltchronik. BCN materials - exhibition catalog of the City Library 107. Nuremberg 2013
  • Sauer, Christine (Ed.): "For the German - against the un-German spirit". Of forbidden and regime-compliant literature in the 'Third Reich'. BCN materials - exhibition catalog of the City Library 106. Nuremberg 2013
  • Sträter, Elisabeth: "The library is alive": The new Nuremberg central library. In: BuB 65 (2013) 4, pp. 305-310
  • Sträter, Elisabeth: A building of the century - the new Nuremberg central library. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern 07 (2013) 2, pp. 124–129
  • Sauer, Christine (Ed.): 642 years of the Nuremberg City Library. From the council library to the education campus. Contributions to the history and culture of the city of Nuremberg / Nuremberg city library. Volume 26. Wiesbaden 2013
  • Sauer, Christine: Aim: the responsible citizen. From an adult education association to a municipal adult education center and library. In: Eckart, Wolfgang (Ed.): Learning close to life. 90 years of municipal training in Nuremberg. Nuremberg 2012, pp. 19–28
  • Eckart, Wolfgang: Further education in the communal educational landscape. The education campus as a cooperation model between the education center and the city library. In: Eckart, Wolfgang (Ed.): Learning close to life. 90 years of municipal training in Nuremberg. Nuremberg 2012, pp. 111-134
  • Goldmann, Karlheinz: History of the Nuremberg City Library. Nuremberg 1957
  • Libraries in Nuremberg. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern 12 (1984) pp. 100–192
  • Jürgensen, Renate: Nuremberg City Library. In: Handbook of historical book collections in Germany, Volume 12. Hildesheim 1996, pp. 111–152
  • Thomann, Günther: Nuremberg City Library. In: Regional libraries in Germany. With an outlook on Austria and Switzerland, ed. by Bernd Hagenau. Frankfurt a. M. 2000, pp. 410-417
  • Jürgensen, Renate: Bibliotheca Norica: Patrician and scholarly libraries in Nuremberg between the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment. - Wiesbaden, 2002. (Contributions to books and libraries # 43)

Web links

Commons : Nuremberg City Library  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '25 "  N , 11 ° 4' 51"  E