Brühl - Bibliothek des Max-Ernst-Gymnasiums (MEG)
Historical book holdings in the library of the Max-Ernst-Gymnasium of Brühl
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Bibliothekssigel: Brl1 = O9035
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The Brühl secondary school system began in 1783 with the foundation of the Electoral Tironen School (1783-1793), which was converted into a secondary school (1807-1812) by Napoleon's decree. It was run as a commercial and educational establishment in the building of the former Franciscan monastery from 1812 to 1821. There, the pedagogue Johann Caspar Schug (co-founder of the Olympic Society of Cologne) offered further education courses for elementary school teachers. This was the forerunner of the later teachers' seminar in Brühl. From 1865 to 1902 the school developed from a Progymnasium to a fully developed Gymnasium. In 1910, Brühl's most important citizen - Max Ernst - graduated from this school. The Gymnasium was named after him in 1981. The school probably established a library early on. The records, which have been kept since 1879 (inventory lists), indicate which works were acquired from the annually available funds by the town and which works came to the town or school through donations or as estates. On August 8, 1895, the city council of Brühl decided to give the school two comprehensive private libraries, which had fallen to the city after the death of their owners. The existing holdings of the Progymnasium and the libraries of Heinrich Balkhausen, a private teacher who died in 1859, and Joseph Lerique, a writer and former vicar of Pingsdorf who died in 1890, formed the basis for the school library, which is still in good condition today and which, despite its changeable history, has retained its core. Despite massive losses due to the effects of war, its holdings have now grown to approximately 12,000 volumes. Its old collection forms a representative and lively cross-section of the teaching material of a small town citizen school of the 19th and 20th centuries. In the year 2002 the library moved to a new place in the self-study centre of the MEG. It was decided to integrate the old collection (approx. 2,000 volumes), into the <a href="http://okeanos-www.hbz-nrw.de/F">North Rhine-Westphalian database network (in German)</a>. Approximately 200 volumes from the period before 1800 may be of particular interest. In addition, the collection focuses on the important subjects of the time: the ancient languages Latin and Greek, history, especially of classical antiquity, but also of the Middle Ages, theology, German and pedagogy. Numerous works in Spanish and Italian come from the possession of the writer Lerique. In terms of numbers, titles outweigh history. These include the "Cronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen", the so-called "Koelhoff's Chronicle" from 1499, the oldest book in the library, but also Samuel Pufendorf's "De rebus gestis Friderici Wilhelmi Magni ... commentaria" (1733) and the "Entwurf einer Geschichte des gegenwärtigen Krieges" (2 volumes 1762, 1763), which consists almost exclusively of hand-coloured maps and ground plans of the battlefields of this "First World War". In the 19th century, the focus was on editions of works by German classical and romantic authors, dictionaries and linguistic works, Latin and Greek text editions, and works of philosophical, educational and religious content. The "Publications of the Society for the History of the Rhineland" and the "Annals of the Historical Society for the Lower Rhine" are particularly noteworthy in the field of the history of the Rhineland.
Literature (in German)
- Mertens, Martin: Katalog der Lehrerbibliothek des Progymnasiums zu Brühl (=Beilage zum Jahresbericht des Progymnasiums zu Brühl. 1895/96). [Brühl] 1896
- Drösser, Wolfgang [Red.]: Max-Ernst-Gymnasium 1990. Festschrift. Brühl 1990
- Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände in Deutschland. Band 3: Nordrhein-Westfalen A-I. Hildesheim 1992, S. 194f.
- Chrosciel, Björn: Handreichung zur Einweihung der Bibliothek im Selbstlernzentrum. Brühl 2002