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Princely Library Stolberg Wernigerode
Lost Art-ID
539940
Name
Princely Library Stolberg Wernigerode
Description
Collection with the departments A - Encyclopaedia (approx. 310), B - Library science (approx. 1,740), C - History of literature (approx. 1,112), D - General scientific newspapers (approx. 3,176), E - Newspapers and local papers (approx. 2,333), F - Philosophy (approx. 85)2, G - Pedagogy (approx. 1,805), H - Theology (approx. 13,103) of which Ha - Bibles (approx.3 .199), Hb - Hymnology (approx. 37), Hc - Protestant theology of the Reformation period (approx. 1,698), Hd - Symbolic books of the Protestant church (approx. 381), He - Mixed Protestant theology since 1600 (approx. 3. 301), Hf - Exegesis (ca. 1,016), Hg - Sermons (ca. 818), Hh - Theological Miscellanea (ca. 182), Hi - Theological Dissertations (ca. 110), Hk - Theological Journals (ca. 1,030), Hl - Catholic Theology (ca. 1,068), Hm - funeral sermons (ca. 10) and Hn - liturgy (ca. 290), J - church history (ca. 4,457), K - political science and law (ca. 150), L - militaria (ca. 781), M - medicine (ca. 100), N - mathematics and natural sciences (ca. 3,438), O - linguistics (ca. 1,705), P - literature (ca. 10,637), Q - general and non-German historical literature (ca. 7,838), R - German history (approx. 10,976), S - Geography and travel (approx. 4,243), T - Other historical auxiliary science (approx. 6,085), U - Art (approx. 3,646), V - Technology (approx. 2,593), W - Varia (approx. 906), X - Harz literature (approx. 1,731), Y - Wernigerodana (approx. 3,216) and Z - Manuscripts (approx. 1,099). In addition, around 10,000 atlases and maps as well as the holdings of the Radecke Collection (approx. 2,001) and the Meinecke Collection (approx. 2,132) belonging to the Stolberg Library and around 4,000 unclassified volumes, old holdings of the Consistory of the Orphanage and others.
So far ( status 2025), returns have been made possible in some cases:
Around 1,100 volumes since 1997 (location: Tbilisi/Georgia)
In addition, private individuals, antiquarian bookshops and auction houses have returned volumes from the library that came onto the market after 1945 as stolen goods (also through the antiquarian book trade).
Around 26,000 volumes, atlases and around 2000 maps have so far been restituted under the EALG
History
The collection included the Fürstlich Stolbergische Bibliothek Wernigerode with approx. 96,000 volumes and around 10,000 maps from the period 1500-1945; manuscripts, incunabula, books, journals and newspapers.
On 19 April 1946, the Red Army trophy commission transported around 50,000 volumes from the Prince of Stolberg-Wernigerode Library from Wernigerode in goods wagons, initially to the SVA camp in Rummelsberg near Berlin - the ‘Azeta’ plant. On 24 August 1946, by order of the Soviet military administration number 0249, the holdings of the Stolberg library (library sign: A 17), packed in 575 boxes, were taken from Berlin to Moscow in the former USSR on military train no. 176/8036. Some of the libraries and institutions presumed to have benefited were and still are: - The Shishkov Library of the Altai region in Barnaul
- the Gosfond Literatury
- the State Polytechnic Library in Ivanovo
- the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
- the Leningrad Institute for Theatre and Music
- the Library of Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow
- the State Lenin Union Library, now the Russian State Library in Moscow
- the State Public Historical Library in Moscow
- the Rudomino State Library of Foreign Literature in Moscow
- Lomonosov State University in Moscow
- the State Institute of Science and Research in Moscow
- the State Central Museum of Musical Culture in Moscow
- the Moscow Conservatory
- the Technical Library in Novosibirsk
- the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg
- the Saltykov-Scedrin State Public Library in St. Petersburg
- the Leningrad State Philharmonic Orchestra, now the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra in St Petersburg
- the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in St. Petersburg
- the National Library in Rostov-on-Don
- the National Library of Chuvashia
- Library of Voronezh State University
libraries in the republics of the Soviet Union (e.g. in Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine etc.) as well as other academic libraries. As of today (2025), the Ivane Javakhishvili State University Library in Tbilisi holds around 50,000 volumes of so-called trophy literature from German libraries, including volumes from the Prince of Stolberg-Wernigerode Library.
On 19 April 1946, the Red Army trophy commission transported around 50,000 volumes from the Prince of Stolberg-Wernigerode Library from Wernigerode in goods wagons, initially to the SVA camp in Rummelsberg near Berlin - the ‘Azeta’ plant. On 24 August 1946, by order of the Soviet military administration number 0249, the holdings of the Stolberg library (library sign: A 17), packed in 575 boxes, were taken from Berlin to Moscow in the former USSR on military train no. 176/8036. Some of the libraries and institutions presumed to have benefited were and still are: - The Shishkov Library of the Altai region in Barnaul
- the Gosfond Literatury
- the State Polytechnic Library in Ivanovo
- the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
- the Leningrad Institute for Theatre and Music
- the Library of Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow
- the State Lenin Union Library, now the Russian State Library in Moscow
- the State Public Historical Library in Moscow
- the Rudomino State Library of Foreign Literature in Moscow
- Lomonosov State University in Moscow
- the State Institute of Science and Research in Moscow
- the State Central Museum of Musical Culture in Moscow
- the Moscow Conservatory
- the Technical Library in Novosibirsk
- the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg
- the Saltykov-Scedrin State Public Library in St. Petersburg
- the Leningrad State Philharmonic Orchestra, now the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra in St Petersburg
- the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in St. Petersburg
- the National Library in Rostov-on-Don
- the National Library of Chuvashia
- Library of Voronezh State University
libraries in the republics of the Soviet Union (e.g. in Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine etc.) as well as other academic libraries. As of today (2025), the Ivane Javakhishvili State University Library in Tbilisi holds around 50,000 volumes of so-called trophy literature from German libraries, including volumes from the Prince of Stolberg-Wernigerode Library.
Contact
S.D. Philipp Fürst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
Position
http://www.stolberg-wernigerode.de/bibliothek
Phone
+49 (0) 6045 1251