Winterthur libraries

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Winterthur libraries
Winterthur libraries, Obere Kirchgasse 6 in Winterthur 2011-09-09 16-09-52 ShiftN.jpg
City library at the church square

founding 1660
Duration 1,153,488 media (as of 2010)
Library type library
place Winterthur coordinates: 47 ° 29 '55.2 "  N , 8 ° 43' 45.9"  E ; CH1903:  697258  /  two hundred sixty-one thousand six hundred and seventy-nineWorld icon
ISIL CH-000084-8 (Winterthur City Library)
CH-000985-4 (Winterthur libraries special collections)
Website http://www.winbib.ch

The Winterthur libraries are the library system of the public libraries of the city of Winterthur . This includes the city library with the Winterthur collection (including the former special collections) and six district libraries.

history

The first library in Winterthur, then called the “Citizens' Library”, was founded on November 1, 1660 by four exponents of the music college . The first place to stay was in 1661, the Hinwilerhaus (today the Rathaus-Apotheke), but one year later they moved to the town hall , where the library remained until the beginning of the 19th century. At that time the library was still an institution for the political and economic elite, only with the Enlightenment did the citizen library develop into a lending library for the entire population. In the initial phase, in addition to books, the library also collected many curiosities such as shells and other things - these holdings can now be found in the Nature Museum and in the Coin Cabinet .

Until the end of the 15th century, libraries were reserved for churches, pastors and religious orders. In töss monastery is a more significant library was located. There was a new development through humanism and the Reformation . In 1593, Rodolfus Hospinianus, archdeacon and pastor at the Fraumünster in Zurich , suggested for the first time to build a public library in Winterthur. Winterthur had developed into a center before the library was founded, and the gentlemen in Zurich extended the freedom of trade. The Musikkollegium Winterthur was founded in 1629 . From this environment, a citizen library based on the model of Zurich and Schaffhausen was suggested. On May 6th, 1660, the founding fathers discussed the procedure during a walk on the Heiligberg , the establishment was decided on November 11th, 1660 in the rectory. Within a few weeks there were already 586 books together. On December 2, 1662, the move from the Hinwilerhaus to the old town hall took place. The library stayed there for 180 years.

From 1727 a library catalog was also available. From 1777 onwards, a "directory of selected books" was published in printed form, which was not yet common at the time. From 1782 to 1784 the library was temporarily moved to the Waaghaus because the old town hall was partly demolished and replaced by the current building or it was completely renovated. In 1835 Johann Conrad Troll published the history of the public library for the first time. In 1842 the library moved to the newly built boys' schoolhouse, which was later called the grammar school and is now known as the Oskar Reinhart Museum . From 1872 the citizen's library was renamed the city library. At the beginning of the 20th century, the institution positioned itself in the library landscape of that time as a general educational library. The library was owned by the community until 1914. On January 2, 1916, a new museum and library building was opened on Museumsstrasse, into which the city library moved. In 1931 the entire collection was re-cataloged. On July 5, 2003, the new city library was opened on the church square . It was the first fully electronically controlled library in Europe.

New year sheet

The Winterthur libraries have been publishing so-called annual New Year's sheets for a long time . Each year, these publications in book form are dedicated to a different topic from Winterthur's urban and regional history and are an important source when it comes to Winterthur's urban history. The 357th New Year's Gazette was published in 2020. The first New Year's sheet can be traced back to 1665 when an engraving with a text on it was published.

Archive inventory

The city library has a stock of 620,000 books and offers 1,800 magazines and 45 newspapers. In 2008, 1,340,144 items of media were loaned out, of which 773,343 were books. The internet stations in the city library are used by up to 150 people a day. Most of the holdings in the Winterthur libraries can be searched online.

Collections of the Winterthur libraries

The holdings of the collections of the Winterthur libraries (known as a special collection until 2015) contain 38,000 manuscripts, 150 bequests, 5,300 autographs, 3,200 microfilms, 150,000 photos and graphic sheets, 19,000 coats of arms, 12,400 Bookplate, 10,000 maps, 8,500 printed music, 5,900 CDs, 3,000 videos and 6,950 records. The archive of the Swiss Ex Libris Club can be viewed in the special collections . The picture collection contains picture documents of the Winterthur region from the last centuries to the present. Legacies and documents from various people who are connected to Winterthur are collected. These include a. Richard Bühler , Jonas Furrer , Rudolf Hunziker , Friedrich Gubler-Corti , Georg Reinhart , Hans Reinhart , Werner Reinhart and many more. The music archive includes the archive of the Musikkollegium Winterthur , the Rychenberg Foundation and holdings from Winterthur music publishers. The collections also contain a bibliography of newspaper and magazine articles that covered the entire northern part of the canton until 1991, but has now shrunk to the area of ​​the city of Winterthur and the surrounding communities.

service

Reading promotion

The libraries hold various events to promote reading among children. Since the summer of 1999, a reading summer has been held every two years, in which 2,200 children have recently taken part. Anyone who reads for at least 15 minutes or has something read aloud on 30 days in summer is allowed to take part in a closing event, receives a T-shirt and can win various prizes.

Integration library

The Winterthur libraries have children's and adult books in eleven different foreign languages ​​under the title "Integrationsbibliothek". A reduced number of one to three different languages ​​is available in the district libraries.

Radio broadcasts

In cooperation with Radio Stadtfilter , the libraries participate in two different broadcast formats. Once a month the libraries produce an episode of the children's program “Radio Gwunder”. In addition, the libraries participate in various editions of the literary magazine "Seitenwind".

staff

69 employees and 3 trainees currently work in the Winterthur libraries, with the majority of the staff working in the city library.

Web links

Commons : Winterthur libraries  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emanuel Dejung / Peter Sulzer / Pierre Brunner: 300 years of Winterthur City Library 1660-1960. (= Neujahrsblatt der Stadtbibliothek Winterthur. Volume 291). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1960, p. 9f.
  2. ^ Rolf Weiss: From the Citizens' Library to the Winterthur City Library. In: The Winterthur City Library. Their development and their prints in Winterthur. (Reprint from Librarium. Journal of the Swiss Bibliophile Society. Volume 34, Issue I, 1991, ISSN  0024-2152 .) Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1992, p. 2.
  3. ^ Rolf Weiss: From the Citizens' Library to the Winterthur City Library. In: The Winterthur City Library. Their development and their prints in Winterthur. (Reprint from Librarium. Journal of the Swiss Bibliophile Society. Volume 34, Book I, 1991, ISSN  0024-2152 .) Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1992, p. 5.
  4. ^ Rolf Weiss: From the Citizens' Library to the Winterthur City Library. In: The Winterthur City Library. Their development and their prints in Winterthur. (Reprint from Librarium. Journal of the Swiss Bibliophile Society. Volume 34, Book I, 1991, ISSN  0024-2152 .) Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1992, p. 6.
  5. ↑ Emanuel Dejung / Peter Sulzer / Pierre Brunner: 300 years of Winterthur City Library 1660-1960. (= Neujahrsblatt der Stadtbibliothek Winterthur. Volume 291). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1960, p. 20.
  6. ^ Rolf Weiss: From the Citizens' Library to the Winterthur City Library. In: The Winterthur City Library. Their development and their prints in Winterthur. (Reprint from Librarium. Journal of the Swiss Bibliophile Society. Volume 34, Book I, 1991, ISSN  0024-2152 .) Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1992, p. 7.
  7. ↑ Emanuel Dejung / Peter Sulzer / Pierre Brunner: 300 years of Winterthur City Library 1660-1960. (= Neujahrsblatt der Stadtbibliothek Winterthur. Volume 291). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1960, p. 27.
  8. ^ Rolf Weiss: From the Citizens' Library to the Winterthur City Library. In: The Winterthur City Library. Their development and their prints in Winterthur. (Reprint from Librarium. Journal of the Swiss Bibliophile Society. Volume 34, Issue I, 1991, ISSN  0024-2152 .) Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1992, p. 11.
  9. ↑ Emanuel Dejung / Peter Sulzer / Pierre Brunner: 300 years of Winterthur City Library 1660-1960. (= Neujahrsblatt der Stadtbibliothek Winterthur. Volume 291). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1960, p. 13f.
  10. ^ Rolf Weiss: From the Citizens' Library to the Winterthur City Library. In: The Winterthur City Library. Their development and their prints in Winterthur. (Reprint from Librarium. Journal of the Swiss Bibliophile Society. Volume 34, Issue I, 1991, ISSN  0024-2152 .) Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1992, p. 12f.
  11. ^ Rolf Weiss: From the learned library to the information center. 343 years of the Winterthur Citizens and City Library. In: Stadtbibliothek Winterthur (ed. :) New city library in medieval walls. History and present of the new city library and the "Tösserhaus" in Winterthur. (= Neujahrsblatt der Stadtbibliothek Winterthur. Volume 334). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 2003, ISBN 3-908050-22-7 , p. 94f.
  12. ^ Entry Stadtbibliothek Winterthur on helveticarchives.ch
  13. ↑ News article “Successful Winterthur Libraries” on bibliotheken.winterthur.ch
  14. ↑ Winterthur Collection
  15. ↑ News article «Anniversary closing party of the Winterthur reading summer» on kultur.winterthur.ch