Uwe Johnson Library
| Uwe Johnson Library | |
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 Entrance area of the Uwe Johnson library
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| founding | 1552 |
| Duration | 55,719 |
| Library type | City library |
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Güstrow 
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| ISIL | DE-Gs 5 |
| management | Dept. of Culture, Marketing, Tourism |
| Website | http://www.uwe-johnson-bibliothek.de/ |
The Uwe Johnson Library (spelling: Uwe Johnson Library) is a public library in Güstrow . It is located on the outskirts of the city center in a restored classical building. The historical library of the Museum Güstrow is attached to it. This is a scientific library and reference library with holdings that go back to the 16th century.
history
On the one hand, the library goes back to the princely cathedral school in Güstrow . Founded in 1552 by Duke Johann Albrecht I (1525–1576) , it was initially a Protestant scholarly library. During the reign of Duke Gustav Adolf (1633–1695) , after the Thirty Years' War , donations renewed the library's holdings. In the following century, however, the population decreased. Since only about 300 volumes were available, from 1789 new school regulations of the cathedral school obliged every student to pay. The stock should be expanded from this money. In 1804 a lending library was finally set up, mainly from book donations from students and their parents. During this time, a distinction was made between a teacher and a student library. It was the only public library in Guestrow besides commercial lending libraries. A systematic expansion of the stock did not take place. In 1853 the collection grew to 15,000 volumes after two private libraries in Güstrow were bought and added to the collection. With an estimated 60,000 volumes, the library was the largest of its kind in Mecklenburg around 1900. With the construction of the secondary school in Güstrow between 1903 and 1905, the library was re-cataloged. Individual volumes were added to the holdings of the Museum Güstrow, which was run by a number of teachers on a voluntary basis. Donations from citizens expanded the inventory. After the First World War , larger holdings were transferred to the museum library. This library was now managed as a cultural history collection.
A second root of the library is the public library of the Aid Association of Güstrow, founded in 1889. This was initially just one of several small private libraries, intended for the political education and edification of workers. After the World War it was chosen to serve as a public library. After 1921 it was a public library funded with public money. Their holdings fluctuated between 1,530 and 2,505 volumes. However, official funding never exceeded small amounts. The content of the holdings was redesigned in the years after 1933 by means of Nazi ideologically compliant writings, but the financial support did not exceed the means for the ideological adaptation of the holdings. Furthermore, the inventory fluctuated around 2,000 volumes and the library was virtually insignificant at the end of the war.
The re-establishment took place after the Second World War . After 1945, the city's cultural office, set up by the Soviet occupation authorities , built up the public library primarily on the basis of the holdings of the cathedral school library; further holdings came from confiscated private libraries. After reviewing the literature that was found to be “worth using” according to ideological criteria, the holdings were numbered at 15,452 volumes. As a result, between 1945 and 1953 the library holdings were scattered and some of them were lost. The three commercial lending libraries that remained in 1947 disappeared by 1958 and the library, which was named the Güstrow City and District Library in 1954, became the only public library. Despite taking over large stocks of the cathedral school library and the largely uselessness of the Nazi-compliant stocks of the public library, the library of the workers' association was invoked in the GDR period, also because it received official funding from 1921. After two moves and a relocation of the children's library, which was named after Willi Bredel , the district management ordered the move to the west wing of Güstrow Castle in 1962 . In 1989, the district library included the central libraries in Zehna , Kritzkow, Krakow , Laage , Lalendorf and Diekhof and 102 village libraries; there were two branches in Güstrow, 35 lending points in companies and five lending points in the children's library. The inventory was given as 95,000 (books, records and magazines).
In 1995/96 the library was converted from a district library into a city library. In 1997 the move to today's address Am Wall 2. With around 50,000 media units, the newly restored building was moved into. The premises were built as a horse stable and from 1928 to 1945 also housed the Güstrow Museum. With literature days, children's festivals, readings, reading competitions and the Uwe Johnson Literature Days, the library's program of events has been very pronounced over the years and enjoys a national reputation and popularity.
Naming
On July 20, 1994, the library was named “Uwe Johnson Library”. This went back to the private initiative of four citizens who wanted to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death and his 60th birthday of the poet who had spent his youth in Güstrow and wrote the first literary works. Suhrkamp Verlag , which holds the rights to Johnson's legacy , also agreed to the naming. In addition to everyday operations, the library has committed itself to Uwe Johnson's literary legacy in events and inventory building. The library has owned the Johnson collection of photographs from companion and photographer Heinz Lehmbäcker since 2013 . Lehmbäcker dealt intensively with the life and work of Johnson and documented both Johnson himself and his stations and the stations of his novels photographically.
Historical library
The collection comprises 3,646 volumes as historical holdings, a total of around 18,000 volumes. A volume from the 15th century and 48 volumes from the 16th century represent the oldest holdings. This also includes a volume with the oldest map of the city of Güstrow.
The historical library also goes back to the cathedral school library. In the first half of the 20th century, especially between 1903–1905 and 1945–53, their holdings came to the city's museum library. In 1950 the Latin teacher and local researcher Wilhelm Gernentz (1890–1969), himself a former student of the cathedral school, came to Güstrow. He made sure that large stocks of the cathedral school library as well as other stocks from the local history museum, cultural associations and private libraries came to the museum library. In 1953 he introduced the system according to which the holdings of the historical library are still organized today. This is divided into the three main groups of German history (including historical auxiliary sciences and art history), Mecklenburg history and the history of Güstrow. The former cathedral school library is now divided between the historical library, which belongs to the city as a museum library, the library of the John Brinckman grammar school and the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional library in Schwerin. The inventory includes 19 incunabula , in the Mecklenburg State Library since 1953.
numbers
In 2012, the Uwe Johnson Library counted 39,792 visits and 92,881 book loans. The inventory included 47,824 print media and 7,541 non-book media.
literature
- Heinz Gittig: Mecklenburgische und Pommersche Zeitung und Wochenblätter: Catalog of the holdings from the 17th century to the present in archives, libraries and museums of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in the Szczecin District and City Library and in the Berlin State Library Prussian Cultural Heritage. Berlin 1994.
- Peter Lack: The cathedral school in Güstrow. In: Güstrower Jahrbuch 2005. Zehna 2004, pp. 81–85.
- Sabine Moritz: Library in the castle. In: Güstrower Jahrbuch 1994. Dülmen 1993, pp. 153–157.
- Sabine Moritz: Uwe Johnson - a name that obliges. In: Güstrower Jahrbuch 2000. Dülmen 1999, pp. 216–220.
- Sabine Moritz: The Güstrow city library = fun and education. In: Güstrow - Yearbook 2005. Zehna 2004, pp. 35–43.
- Georg Heinrich Raspe: Invitation to the jubilee celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the Güstrow Cathedral School. Guestrow 1853
- Dieter Schmidmaier: Lending libraries in Güstrow during Goethe's time. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 2000, pp. 185–215.
- City and district library Güstrow: 100 years city and district library: Library in the castle; Library currently 1989. (leaflet) 1989.
- Herbert Wolff: The public libraries of the Güstrow district in their historical development: a contribution to the 75th anniversary of the city and district library. Guestrow 1964.
- Herbert Wolff: The public libraries in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania from their beginnings to 1918: evidence of the source. Edited by d. Schwerin District Library. Schwerin 1965.
Web links
- Literature on Uwe Johnson Library in the State Bibliography MV
- Uwe Johnson Library website
- Entry on the historical library of the Museum Güstrow in the manual of historical book collections