Landesbibliothek Coburg

The Niederfüllbach Castle Library was created by Leopold I of Belgium from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld before his election as King of the Belgians in 1831.

[2] With the move of the Coburg State Archives from the castle to the Zeughaus in 1990, the space problems in terms of storage capacity were temporarily solved.

[4] Coburg was not affected by the secularisation at the beginning of the 19th century and the structure of the academic library system in Bavaria established at that time, as a State which was re-established in 1807 (like all Thuringian principalities) and remained sovereign until 1920.

The Coburg Landesstiftung had been founded in 1919 for the purpose of preserving the cultural assets of the lost state in legal independence.

[5] While maintaining its historical-traditional ties to Coburg, the library was transferred to the administration of the Free State of Bavaria from 1 January 1973.