Dillingen Study Library
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| founding | 1749 |
| Duration | 165,530 volumes |
| Library type | scientific regional library |
| place | Dillingen on the Danube |
| ISIL | DE-Di1 |
| management | Rudiger May |
| Website | www.studienbibliothek-dillingen.de/ |
The Dillingen Study Library in Dillingen on the Danube as the successor to the Dillingen University Library is the regional library of the Free State of Bavaria in northern Swabia. As a scientific library it is available to all interested parties from the region for scientific purposes as well as for professional work and advanced training.
Duration
The Dillingen Study Library has a holdings of 165,530 media units and 180 journals. The old stock of manuscripts and rare prints includes:
- Manuscripts: 491 (+ fragments)
- Incunabula: 825
history
It is assumed that the Dillingen University was equipped with a library when it was founded by the Augsburg prince-bishop Otto Truchsess von Waldburg . In 1567 the Bibliotheca in novum Collegium , the Konviktbau built in 1565/68 by the professors of the Collegium Soc. Jesu Dilingae BVM (Dillinger College of the Society of Jesus of the Blessed Virgin Mary), housed and relocated to a room on its west side in 1577 that was difficult to use as living space. When this building was replaced by a spacious four-winged building in between 1713 and 1738, you taught there in the north wing, in its projecting to the garden means risalit , one extending over the second and third floor library, the roof of a today ridge turret crowned . The refectory and a recreation room were located on the two lower floors . The library's book inventory had grown rapidly over time and had to meet the requirements of a university with four faculties , including a humanistic grammar school .
After the repeal of the Jesuit order by Pope Clement XIV in 1773, the university came to the Augsburg monastery and, as a result of the secularization in Bavaria in 1802, to the electorate and later Kingdom of Bavaria . On November 3, 1803, the new sovereign Maximilian closed the university. The grammar school and the seminary remained in Dillingen. The university was converted into a lyceum and the former university library was renamed the district and study library, with the addition Royal from 1806 to 1918 . The Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen , founded in 1923, was affiliated to the University of Augsburg, founded in 1970, as the Catholic-Theological Department in April 1971. The Academy for Teacher Training was established in the buildings in 1971, which was renamed the Academy for Teacher Training and Personnel Management in 1996 . The academy is directly subordinate to the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture .
At the beginning of the 19th century, the library was significantly enriched by the holdings of the secularized monasteries Wettenhausen , Elchingen and Fultenbach . According to Friedrich Zoepfl , over 5000 volumes came from the Elchingen monastery. Of the 4,000 books from the Fultenbach monastery, more than 1,100 volumes remained after being sorted out in Dillingen. The study library took over 2500 volumes from the Wettenhausen Monastery.
The library, which in the meantime had expanded well beyond the original library hall, was relocated in 1965 and moved to its current location, the building of the old grammar school. At this point was the food house, the so-called Domus S. Hieronymi , which was built in 1579/80 as accommodation for poor students and renovated in 1697. The current building was erected there in 1724/25 and housed the old grammar school until the Johann Michael Sailer grammar school was built in the 1960s. In order to be able to accommodate the stock of 140,000 volumes, the former high school was rebuilt and gutted inside. In addition, an exhibition room and a reading room with 3500 volumes were set up. Particularly valuable works such as an incunable or bookplate from the 15th century, which are considered to be the oldest in the German-speaking area, are still kept in the historical library hall .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ingo Schröder: Philosophical-theological universities. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria, August 22, 2006 - PDF file 1.2 MB
- ↑ Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Augsburg: On the history of the Catholic-Theological Faculty
- ^ Friedrich Zoepfl : The study library in Dillingen - your history from 1549 to 1945. II. The Bavarian district and study library 1803 to 1945 . In: Yearbook of the Historical Association Dillingen an der Donau Vol. 70, Dillingen an der Donau 1968
literature
- Friedrich Zoepfl: Contributions to the art history of the Dillinger academic buildings. In: Yearbook of the Historical Association Dillingen 52 (1950) 190-212.
