Berlinka, German manuscript library at Jagiellonian Library, Kraków, Poland
The Berlinka collection contains over 300,000 German manuscripts and documents stored in temperature-controlled vaults at the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków.
German authorities relocated the Prussian State Library collection to Grüssau Abbey in 1942, and Polish forces transferred it to Kraków between 1945 and 1946.
The collection includes original music manuscripts from Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, along with medieval texts and writings from the Brothers Grimm.
Access to the Berlinka collection requires research credentials and advance appointments through the Jagiellonian Library's special collections department.
The collection includes personal letters and annotated copies from the estate of Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, documenting 19th-century German intellectual life.
Location: Kraków
Inception: 1947
GPS coordinates: 50.06150,19.92360
Latest update: March 6, 2025 18:54
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