Libraries in Germany

Founded in Leipzig in 1912 as the Deutsche Bucherei and joined after 1946 by the Deutsche Bibliothek in Frankfurt, the unified Ger...

The former Benedictine abbey of Wiblingen near Ulm, founded in 1093, completed its famous rococo library hall in 1744. Stucco and ...

The Benedictine abbey of Metten, founded in 766 near the Danube, rebuilt its library hall in exuberant rococo style in the eightee...

In the seventeenth century Duke August the Younger made Wolfenbuttel the largest library north of the Alps, cataloging some 135,00...