Publications

How do collections come about? Why are they broken up or destroyed? What determined the collectibility of objects in different historical contexts? What criteria do we apply today and for what motives?

These questions were the focus of the ninth Saxony-Anhalt State History Day, which was organised in 2019 by the Research Library for Reformation Studies in cooperation with the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt and the Archive of the Ev. Church of Anhalt in Lutherstadt Wittenberg. Thematically, the range of topics covered ranged from the breakup of the relic collection of the Elector Friedrich the Wise to the everyday culture of the GDR. Mitteldeutscher Verlag has now published an anthology for this conference. The book can be purchased from bookstores or directly from the publisher.

A richly illustrated brochure outlines the concept, organisation and holdings of the Research Library for Reformation Studies and highlights the work of this new scientific and cultural institution in its first two years at Wittenberg Castle.

The brochure is available for free download in PDF format (see below).

In one of the well-known and well-received “Little Art Guides” of the publishing house Schnell + Steiner, Bernhard Gruhl and Matthias Meinhardt present the historical development of Wittenberg Castle as well as the exhibitions, art treasures and institutions located there. The booklet is available in German and English. It can be obtained from bookstores or directly from the publisher.

A new research and cultural institution introduces itself: the Research Library for Reformation Studies in Wittenberg. It began its work in 2018 in the fully renovated and repurposed Wittenberg Castle. The publication reports on the idea, tasks and conception of the research library, on four cooperation partners whose collaboration makes the library possible at all, and on its location in Wittenberg Castle, the history of which is interlinked with the holdings in many ways. And of course, the publication also looks at the books and manuscripts that are stored in the library’s stacks, will be systematically indexed in the coming years and made accessible to the public under significantly improved conditions. The book can be purchased from bookstores or directly from the publisher.