Happy Birthday dear Anne! Utrecht University Library (City Centre Location), Netherlands

For today’s birthday of my great flickr contact Anne (www.flickr.com/photos/57707181@N08/
) I’ve promised a library upload, since she’s a book lover! If you have time, please have a closer look at some of her beautiful photos and maybe also wish her Happy Birthday - English, German, French or Italian etc will work! I had no time to look closer at the books here, but found the history of the building quite interesting, in fact it has been a palace of the King of Holland, Louis Bonaparte.

History of the library: From the 12th to the 16th century, Utrecht was the intellectual and cultural centre of the northern Netherlands. It was the place to be for science and education, usually practised in connection with the church. The city was dominated by its many churches, monasteries and convents. The books and manuscripts from the churches, monasteries and convents were collected after a decree was issued by the Utrecht city fathers in 1581. In 1580, the city had chosen for the reformed religion, so the Catholic churches, monasteries and convents were closed down. A large part of the collections (approximately 550 to 600 manuscripts and books) were brought to the city library, which was to be officially founded in 1584. In 1636, the university was founded and the city library became university library as well. The library moved to this location on Wittevrouwenstraat in 1820, the former working-palace of Louis Bonaparte (his brother was the first Emperor of the French, Napoleon I, and his son was the last, Napoleon III), King of Holland. The building was designed by the famous Dutch architect Jan David Zocher. At that time, the number of printed works had grown to 10,000, but soon after the move the library began to prosper: around 1880, the library contained more than 100,000 books. The main library of Utrecht University is nowadays located on Heidelberglaan 3.

Taken in: Nederland / Utrecht / Utrecht (show map)

Taken on: April 24, 2013

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