Friedrich-von-Raumer-Bibliothek

The Friedrich-von-Raumer-Bibliothek is a public library in Berlin. It was founded in 1850 and is located in Berlin's Kreuzberg locality on Dudenstraße. After several moves the library found its current location in 1955 in a block of flats of the services trade union Ver.Di by Franz Hoffmann and Max Taut. The library is located in the rotunda, westerly protruding from the block of flats, and in the ground floor of that block. The Raumer Library is a so-called neighbourhood library within the Stadtbibliothek Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg , and as such part of the Verbund der Öffentlichen Bibliotheken Berlins , the network of public libraries owned by the city-state.
From its foundation until 1920 the library's official name was Volks⸗Bibliothek No. I at first, since 1870s rather Volksbibliothek I . After the Kingdom's transformation into the Free State of Prussia, with many expressions like the term from Greek: βιβλιοθήκη and Roman numerals being replaced by designations then considered more demotic, the name became 1. Volksbücherei, meaning the same. In 1921 the 4. Volksbücherei was merged with 1. Volksbücherei under the latter name in the former's location. In 1955, on the occasion of moving into a new location, the Library No. I was renamed as Friedrich-von-Raumer-Bücherei in honour of the initial initiator of Berlin's first public libraries, since this library is the successor of two of Berlin's altogether four original public libraries founded in 1850. When in 1995 the more functional name Stadtteilbibliothek Dudenstraße was added, the full name got adapted to Friedrich-von-Raumer-Bibliothek.

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