Worms City Library
| Worms City Library | |
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 The Worms city library with the Siegfriedbrunnen in the foreground
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| founding | 1878/1902 |
| Duration | 360,000 |
| Library type | library |
| place | Worms |
| ISIL | DE-123 |
| Website | Worms City Library |
The City Library Worms is the public library of the city of Worms . It is located in the Haus zur Münze and has around 360,000 media units, 50,000 of which are classified as old stocks .
structure
The City Library Worms divided into the scientific public library with about 300,000 in the magazine stored media and in the public library (including children and youth library ) with about 60,000 media in open access .
history
The library was created through the merger of several private libraries. The public library has its starting point in the library of the Volksbibliotheksverein Worms, founded in 1878, the scientific city library in the "Paulusbibliothek" established in 1881. Like the museum, it belonged to the Worms Antiquities Association and was then in St. Paulus .
In 1902 the city of Worms founded its own city library from the holdings of the Volksbildungsverein, the holdings of which were significantly increased in 1906 by donating the Paulus Library, which now comprises 50,000 volumes. The book and reading hall was located in the former Dechaneikaserne (today the location of the youth hostel). In 1925 the Worms City Library set up the first mobile library in Germany, which supplied 52 villages in the Rhine-Hessian area. Until it was discontinued for financial reasons in 1928, 32,600 books had been loaned out via the mobile library.
The spatial expansion and reorganization of the content came about from 1933 through the foundation of the "Bergkloster" villa of the Worms manufacturer Fritz Reinhart van Gülpen. The Scientific City Library was opened there on April 12, 1935 , the public library remained in Dechaneigasse.
During the Second World War , 110,000 of the 190,000 scientific volumes and the entire public library were destroyed in air raids on Worms , only the outsourced titles were preserved.
With the 80,000 outsourced volumes, the Scientific City Library was able to reopen in the Andreasstift shortly after the end of the war. The public library was rebuilt from 1947 on from the holdings of the Casino and Music Society Worms and was operated at several provisional locations in the following years.
The existing holdings of the scientific library were increased through purchases and donations, including the purchase of the remainder of the Freiherrlich Heylschen library in Schloss Herrnsheim , the donation of 10,000 volumes from the Carl JH Villinger private library and the purchase of the Wilhelm and Erna Salzer library 5000 volumes in 1968.
It was not until 1963 that both parts of the city library were able to move into their own domicile with the opening of the “Haus der Kulturinstitute” (now Haus zur Münze).
Stocks
Important special collections of the Worms City Library are:
- Bookplate collection with 5500 copies
- Historical sheet music with 6750 copies and 4000 music books
- Incunabula collection with 165 incunabula
- Kant library with 1100 titles (including almost all first editions)
- Luther library with 617 printed matter from the Reformation period , including the councilor by Martin Luther , which has been part of the UNESCO World Document Heritage ("Memory of the world") " Early Writings of the Reformation Movement" since October 2015 .
- Nibelungenliedsammlung with more than 800 titles from the 18th century to the present
- NS literature with 3000 titles (including rare administrative regulations)
- Wormatiensia (regional literature on Worms and the surrounding area) with 5000 titles from the 15th century to the present day
literature
- Handbook of historical book stocks , Volume 6 (1993), pp. 271-282
- Busso Diekamp : Illustrated Bibles from the 15th to 19th centuries from the Worms City Library . Worms 1996
- Busso Diekamp: Gifts to the Worms City Library 1995–1997. Old books - Illustrated books - Press prints - Facsimiles . Worms 1997
- Detlev Johannes : History of the Worms library system . Worms 1976
- Detlev Johannes: Luther library of the city of Worms . Worms 1983
Web links
- www.worms.de Official website of the Worms City Library
- Online catalog
- Digital copies from the holdings of the Worms City Library
- History of the city library
Remarks
- ↑ Today: Museum of the City of Worms and housed in the Andreasstift since 1930 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Illert: Worms - as it was . Droste, Düsseldorf 1976, ISBN 3-7700-0432-9 , p. 88 .
- ^ MIZ: Worms City Library. German Music Information Center, May 5, 2006, archived from the original on November 22, 2006 ; Retrieved May 28, 2008 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '47.3 " N , 8 ° 21' 40.2" E