Steglitz-Zehlendorf City Library

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Steglitz-Zehlendorf City Library
Berlin-Steglitz City Library.jpg

Entrance to the city library in Grunewaldstrasse

founding 1900 (United People's Library)
1893 (Zehlendorfer Volksbücherei)
Duration 392.970
Library type library
place Berlin coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 26.9 ″  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 12.5 ″  EWorld icon
ISIL DE-B702 (Ingeborg-Drewitz library, district central library)
DE-B712 (Gottfried Benn library, central library)
operator District Office Steglitz-Zehlendorf
management Jens Gehring
Website Steglitz-Zehlendorf City Library

The Steglitz-Zehlendorf City Library is a public library system sponsored by the Steglitz-Zehlendorf District Office , Office for Further Education and Culture, Department of Libraries. The administration is located in the district central library Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek. The library has a media inventory of 392,970, which were borrowed around 2.6 million times by 874,000 visitors in 2018. In addition, the library organized over 2200 events, guided tours and exhibitions during the same period.

history

Steglitz

As early as 1896, books were collected for a "Steglitz reading circle" in the "Schwendy" bookbindery at Schloßstraße 65 and in 1899 the first library was able to move into rooms at Schloßstraße 33. Under the influence of the reading hall movement at that time , the “United People's Library” was created in 1900 with 4,200 volumes, which in 1912 already comprised 12,000 volumes and was initially moved to Schloßstraße 36 and in 1918 to Lyceum Rothenburgstraße 18.

At the same time, the Zehlendorfer “Volksbücherei” opened in Zehlendorf on March 1st, 1893 and in Lankwitz and Lichterfelde the “Volksbücherei zu Lichterfelde Ost” was created in 1904 at Jungfernstieg 29, in 1905 a library in Südende and the “Volksbücherei des Westens”. After the founding of Greater Berlin in 1920, the Steglitz district office took over the library that had emerged from the reading hall and had meanwhile moved to an outbuilding of the former “Frau Gunkel Higher Girls' School” at 2 Grunewaldstrasse . Together with the Lichterfelde-Ost and Lankwitz libraries, the "Stadtbücherei Steglitz" was created in 1921 under the direction of Hans Rothardt. In 1930 the city library had more than 35,000 volumes. In 1924 the children's reading room was added, which from 1928 onwards used rooms in Flemmingstrasse.

After the National Socialists came to power , the library manager Dr. Rothardt retired. In the library, now called “Volksbücherei Steglitz”, unwanted literature was sorted out and replaced by “ National Socialist literature ”. After the end of the war, the stocks were "cleaned up" and the old stocks and the stocks previously stored in the "poison cabinet" made available again.

As part of a ten-year plan for libraries decided in 1956, the new city library with adult, youth and music library at Grunewaldstrasse 2 was opened on October 1, 1958. The library was created in 1956 and received its first bus in 1961. The new building in Bruchwitzstrasse was built in Lankwitz in 1965. There were many savings, closings and mergers in the 1980s. The Faradayweg and Argentinische Allee branches of the Zehlendorf City Library and the Ringstrasse branch in Lichterfelde were closed. In 1991 the "Ingeborg Drewitz Library" was given its current name.

On September 4, 2006, the new district central library opened in the newly built shopping center Das Schloss , which was built on the site of the old library, with a total area of ​​5000 m². The integration of the library into the building was an integral part of the planning. After completion, the district bought the library floor on the 3rd floor back from the client.

Zehlendorf

The Zehlendorfer “Volksbücherei” opened in 1893 with a stock of 205 books and was initially housed in the teacher's apartment of the local community school. In 1925 the Zehlendorf district took over the library, expanded it to include additional branches in Dahlem and Wannsee, and in 1935 set up the main library in the former Scharfe'sche Villa at Teltower Damm 10 with 25,000 volumes, which today houses the registry office . In 1937, the "traveling library" was the forerunner of today's mobile library. After the end of the war, the adult department moved into the Zehlendorf town hall on Teltower Damm. The new building of the city library on Nentershäuser Platz was opened in 1962 and still houses the children's and youth library, the adult library and the mobile library with its two book buses on 1200 m² of usable space.

Lankwitz

On October 6, 1912, the Lankwitz “Volksbibliothek” with 300 volumes opened in an extension of the 2nd community school, today's Paul Schneider Primary School. After the founding of the Steglitz district in 1921, the library, which had been managed by the Lankwitz local association, was taken over as a branch in the Steglitz city library with 3,000 volumes. After several changes of location, a suitable place was finally found in 1935 in the former Ratskeller of the Lankwitz town hall. What was new was a reading room with newspapers. A few weeks after the end of the war, the largely undamaged library was reopened. The new library building on Bruchwitzstrasse was opened on January 4, 1965 with 14,000 volumes in the adult and 6,000 in the youth department, where it still exists today.

Mobile library

In order to supply the residents of the outskirts of the Zehlendorf district, a “traveling library” was already on the way in the 1930s as a forerunner of today's mobile libraries. It consisted of a car that made several stops. The first book bus in Zehlendorf - the first in Berlin - ran from December 1956 to 1965 and was then replaced by a larger vehicle that could hold 3500 media. In 1978 a second new bus was put into service, which served 16 stops with a total of 56 opening hours. The buses were replaced by a new acquisition in 1989 and 1993 respectively.

The Steglitz City Library used a semi-trailer truck for the mobile libraries, which was in use from October 1961 to December 1988 and made six stops. The second book bus went into service in September 1966 and was replaced by a new one in 1980. In 1999 the two mobile libraries merged and since then have jointly operated two buses that stop at stops in both districts and are stationed at the Gottfried Benn Library.

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The city library offers outdoor areas at all three locations. The Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek offers two outside areas, shielded from traffic noise, on the third floor near the busy Schloßstraße. The Gottfried Benn Library in Zehlendorf has a large reading oasis and the Lankwitz district library has a garden as a reading area.

Own editors select the new media to be acquired, adapted to the spectrum of the three libraries. Around 87% of new purchases come from local booksellers and from some online retailers.

The Music Competence Center in the Ingeborg Drewitz Library takes care of all questions and possibilities of music research in the network of Berlin's public libraries throughout Berlin. In the music area of ​​the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek, 35,000 sheet music for (almost) all instruments and scoring, study scores and piano reductions are available. The focus is on classical chamber and piano music, but there is also an extensive range of musical, rock and pop songbooks. There are also almost 10,000 books on music topics.

Facilities

There are currently 3 different facilities throughout the district as well as the mobile library with two buses.

Library locations in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district
address District Duration
Ingeborg Drewitz Library Grunewaldstrasse 3, 12165 Berlin Steglitz > 215,000
Gottfried Benn Library Nentershäuser Platz 1, 14163 Berlin Zehlendorf > 75,000
Lankwitz district library Bruchwitzstrasse 37, 12247 Berlin Lankwitz 92,450
Mobile library 2 buses with 27 stops 2 × 4500

The Steglitz-Zehlendorf City Library participates in the Association of Public Libraries in Berlin (VÖBB) and is connected to the nationwide interlibrary loan system.

media

The library has a holdings of 394,406 media and was able to carry out 2,778,854 loans to 884,755 library visitors (as of 2017). In 2017, 2392 events, guided tours and exhibitions with 44,139 participants were held.

Cooperation partner

  • Friends of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf City Library
  • Alice Salomon University since 2015 there has been a monthly writing café.
  • Joint events with the German-Polish Society on the history and culture of the two countries.
  • The Society for Geography organizes the GfE events which, despite their specialty, reach a wide audience.
  • The Education Forum Berlin of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung offers six readings annually with current German authors on various topics of contemporary history.
  • The popular Berlin crime marathon has been taking place in the Lankwitz district library since 2014 and in the Ingeborg-Drewitz library in 2015.
  • With Lesewelt Berlin eV, there are several readings a week for children between the ages of four and twelve in the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek and in Zehlendorf .
  • Pflegestützpunkt Berlin provides practical help with lectures on topics such as care, parental support, neighborhood help, diabetes and dementia.
  • The Pückler Society has been offering illustrated lectures in the Ingeborg Drewitz Library since 2015, which are open to everyone.
  • There are joint readings by German and international authors with the “Thalia” bookstore.
  • The Theodor Fontane Society offers lectures and readings for members and other interested parties.

There is also cooperation with the following schools:

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  • Gottfried Benn Library Zehlendorf

  • Gottfried Benn Library Zehlendorf

  • City library book bus

  • Lankwitz district library

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report 2018 Berlin public libraries (PDF file)
  2. ↑ Press / Statistics. In: berlin.de. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Funding & Donations. In: berlin.de. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .