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The Central Library of Dortmund City and Provincial Library read in Dortmund, directly opposite the main railway station. In 1907 the library was founded as the Wilhelm-Auguste-Viktoria Library of the city of Dortmund. After the original building had to be demolished, a new building, designed by architect Mario Botta, was opened to the public in 1999.
Dortmund City and State LibraryReading room on the second floor (2015)
Book reading in DortmundThe Dortmund City and State Library is one of the major libraries run by the city and is centrally located in Dortmund's city centre, directly opposite the main railway station. The Central Library was designed by the architect Mario Botta from Lugano in Switzerland and moved into in May 1999.
When Erich Schulz took office as the first director, the Wilhelm-Auguste-Viktoria-Bücherei was founded in 1907 as a single library (combination of public library and academic library) of the city of Dortmund. On 16 May 1908, the library opened on the upper floor of the new building on the market square next to the town hall. The savings bank was located on the ground floor. At the opening, the library had an inventory of 22,000 volumes. In 1911 the library was subtitled Stadtbibliothek, which became the sole official title from 1919. From 1920 onwards there was an intensified change of function from a unitary library to a scientifically oriented library. The building soon turned out to be too small, especially since the savings bank also received parts of the upper floor from 1917. From 1921 the library received the cloth hall in the adjoining town hall temporarily as a reading room.
In 1924 the savings bank moved out and from then on the entire building was available. The Westfälisch-Niederrheinisches Institut für Zeitungsforschung was founded in 1926 under the direction of Erich Schulz. In 1932, the library received the honorary title Landesbibliothek and has been called Stadt- und Landesbibliothek ever since. In 1940 the municipal public libraries became independent, in 1952 the Institute for Newspaper Research. In 1958 the new House of Libraries was opened, which housed the City and State Library, the Municipal Public Libraries and the Institute for Newspaper Research. The building was located in the city centre between Altem Markt and Wißstraße and was a listed building for a long time, because the building was an architecture typical of the 1950s. In 1988 the City and State Library and the Municipal Public Libraries were merged. In 1999 the library moved into the new building opposite Dortmund Central Station.
