Kassel University Library

Its collection was housed at the Fridericianum, continental Europe's first public museum, and specialized in the fields of history, philology, archaeology, art, geography, theology, and law.

Founded in 1845 by the brothers Friedrich and Karl Murhard, sons of an old Hessian merchant dynasty, it specialized in political science, economics, and pedagogy.

The British Royal Air Force destroyed most of the library by aerial bombing on 9 September 1943, about 7/8 of its holdings of ca.

The Zwehren Tower, however, which holds large parts of the manuscripts, remains unscathed.

[1][2] The third component library comprised the holdings of Kassel University, founded in it modern incarnation in 1970.