Stuttgart City Library

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Stuttgart City Library
Stuttgart City Library Logo.svg
founding 1901
Duration approx.1,200,000 media
Library type library
place Stuttgart
ISIL DE-480
Website http://www1.stuttgart.de/stadtbibliothek/

The Stuttgart City Library (formerly: Stuttgart City Library ) is the administrative office of public libraries in the city of Stuttgart . It is based in the city ​​library on Mailänder Platz .

Branches

City library on Mailänder Platz
The central library was housed in the Wilhelmspalais from 1965 to 2011

The Stuttgart City Library includes:

  • City library on Mailänder Platz
with graphics library , music library , central children's library and online animation library (animation film archive of the Stuttgart Trickfilmfestival )

History of the city library

After the registered association Volksbibliothek Stuttgart had issued a statute on June 9th / August 21st, 1901, the Volksbibliothek was able to move into a legionary barracks on November 19th, 1901 at the site of today's Wilhelmsbau. A phase of rapid development of the library thanks to financially strong supporters was followed by a difficult phase for the library after the First World War, which even had to close the reading room from 1922 to 1927.

In 1965, the central library of the Stuttgart City Library moved into the Wilhelmspalais , which was renovated in the 1960s .

The Stuttgart City Library was also affected by the austerity efforts of the Stuttgart City Council in the 2010/11 double budget. In 2011 the media library was closed. The town hall library should also be closed. The proposal to reduce the mobile library to a book bus was rejected after public protests.

Because of today's complex range of tasks of the Central Library was in the city library at the Milan court's name in the course of the move Stuttgart City Library in Stuttgart City Library changed. In 2013, the library, which was headed by Ingrid Bussmann at the time , received the Library of the Year 2013 award , the only national library award in Germany awarded by the German Library Association and the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius. The jury particularly praised the donation to people with a migration background. The prize was endowed with 30,000 euros.

New building

In October 2011, the central library moved to the newly constructed building of the city ​​library on Mailänder Platz . The building planned by the Korean architect Eun Young Yi is in the Europaviertel on the site of the former freight yard in Stuttgart. Eun Young Yi describes himself as follows: “A monolithic building, which signals a new center of a modern society, does not consist of a single stone, but it reproduces a monolithic image as such - consisting of concrete and matt glass brick. This hard, outer shell conceals a transparent, light glass shell. In this way, the building is spatially peeled inwards like an onion. And deep down, one encounters a negative monolith - an absolutely geometric, orderly, white room as a perfect cube, which is illuminated by a central skylight. "

literature

  • Uwe Bogen (text); Thomas Wagner (photos): Stuttgart. A city changes its face. Erfurt 2012, pp. 54–55.
  • Adrienne Braun: In the middle and outside. Stuttgart's quiet corners. Konstanz 2014, pp. 148–153.
  • Brigidia González, Claudia Hildner: New Stuttgart City Library [2008–2011; Architect: Prof. Eun Young Yi]. 1st edition. Stadtwandel-Verlag, Berlin 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online Animation Library ( Memento from April 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ 100 years of the Stuttgart City Library
  3. ^ Protest against savings plans at the book bus ( memento from July 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Website of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten of October 3, 2009.
  4. ↑ Resolution proposal for naming the new city library (PDF)
  5. ↑ Homepage dbv German Library Association e. V. Awards / Library of the Year , accessed October 24, 2013
  6. ^ Homepage Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius News: Stuttgart City Library receives the “Library of the Year 2013” ​​award ( memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 24, 2013
  7. ↑ Homepage of the city library - here is a detailed description of the building and the objectives pursued with it

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '24.6 "  N , 9 ° 10' 58.9"  E