The University and State Library Darmstadt (German: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt (ULB)) supplies literature and information for members of the Technische Universität Darmstadt and the population of Darmstadt and southern Hesse.[4] Purposes of the institution include education, research and teaching.[4] As of 2021[update], the library has a stock of 4,756,277 publications with an annual circulation of 354,200; ULB has 220,000 visitors and employs a staff of 103.66 FTE.[5][6] The ULB offers at three locations learning rooms and spaces for over 1000 people.[7] Director is Thomas Stäcker.[8] ULB Darmstadt is member of the Hessisches BibliotheksInformationssystem (hebis) (Hessian library information system).[9]
Basis of the library was the book collection of George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1567, the year the landgrave moved to Darmstadt.[10][11] In 1595, the collection comprised c. 750 works.[12] The Darmstädter Hofbibliothek had been located in the Residential Palace Darmstadt (Schloss).[10] Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt acquired the library of the Hanau Privy Councilor Johann Michael Moscherosch (1601–1669) with c. 2300 books, which was placed in the Glockenbau (bell building), part of the Schloss.[12] The first librarian Johann Balthasar Moscherosch took office in 1692.[12] Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse (1753–1830), with his passion for collecting, promoted the library (1789: 16,000 volumes).[12][13] During secularization in 1803, libraries of the Benedictines in Seligenstadt, the Dominicans in Wimpfen, the Capuchins in Bensheim and Dieburg and the Carmelites in Hirschhorn were brought to Darmstadt.[12] Substantial was the 1805 addition of the Cologne Baron von Hüpsch (1750–1805) collection.[12] In 1834, under Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, the library moved to the new Baroque part (De-la-Fosse-Bau) of the Schloss.[14] It was the ninth largest library of the German empire in 1902, grown to 564,000 volumes in 1914 and named Hessische Landesbibliothek in 1920.[12] In the Brandnacht (fire night) on 11 to 12 September 1944 the library in the Schloss was partly destroyed and the majority of the books were burned.[10] In 1948, the institution was merged with the former Technische Hochschule library to the Hessische Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek.[13]
After integration into the Technische Universität Darmstadt in 2000, it received its new name in 2004.[13] In 2012, ULB Darmstadt moved to a new building.[15]
The building was opened on 12 November 2012 and was built by the architecture firm Bär, Stadelmann, Stöcker Architekten BDA.[15][10]
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