Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen

In order to build up and expand its holdings, the public library is dependent on voluntary book and cash donations from the population.

In its early days, it was housed in the Kreuzsaal of the dissolved monastery of All Saints, but then moved to Rheinstrasse in 1792.

In order to provide sufficient space for the new requirements, the library changed location again and first moved to Herrenacker in 1829 and then to the Korn- und Kabishaus near the Münsterturm in 1923.

[4] The Municipal Library and the Ministerial Library administered by it are characterised by an extensive old stock: 160 medieval manuscripts from the monastery of All Saints and from other provenances, including the Vita s. Columbae (7th century), 260 incunabula (prints from before 1500), manuscripts and letters from the Reformation and from the 18th century.

The collection will be successively digitised and made available on the portals e-rara[5] for old and valuable prints and e-codices[6] for medieval manuscripts.