Scientific City Library Memmingen
The Scientific City Library Memmingen is a scientific library set up by the Upper Swabian city of Memmingen . It is designed as a regional library. Its beginnings go back to the 15th century, the inventory today comprises around 40,000 volumes.
history
The scientific city library probably goes back to a collection of city administrative files. Above all, the Antoniterpreceptor Petrus Mitte de Caprariis was indirectly responsible for the establishment of the scientific library when in 1467 he handed over the books he had acquired to the city. Only in the course of the Memmingen Reformation , with the dissolution of the Memmingen Antoniterkloster in 1562, was the complete book inventory of the monastery, which had been expanded with only a few valuable books. As the first “city library”, the library continued to use the premises of what was then the monastery and the rectory of the St. Martin parish church diagonally opposite . The clergy of the Protestant church looked after the book inventory, which mainly consisted of writings on theology, canon law, medical and ancient works. In the early modern period, the 17th and 18th centuries, a few new works were purposefully acquired. This includes works from Evangelical Lutheran theology, jurisprudence and political science. Works in the ancient languages were also acquired. At the end of the 18th century, printers, publishers and also booksellers settled in Memmingen again, and they also supplied the scientific library with new works. In 1803 the scientific library was moved to the wheelhouse . It remained here, with a brief interruption when it was moved to the Josefskirche during World War II, until 1948, when it was moved to the town hall together with the city library built in the 1920s and 1930s . There she was housed in insufficient space. In 1977 the scientific and city libraries were relocated to the partly renovated and newly built Grimmelhaus . Both libraries remained there until 1996, when the division into the city library for general literature and the scientific city library for the Memmingen area came about. The scientific city library remained together with the city archive in the Grimmelhaus, while the city library moved to the renovated Antoniterhaus .
Book inventory
The library currently has a stock of around 40,000 volumes, which is continuously being expanded through targeted acquisitions and book exchanges.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Official website of the library. Retrieved May 11, 2009 .