City library

Like the New Town Hall, the municipal library was completed in 1970. The municipal festival hall had previously stood here. The Stuttgart architects Reiner Graf, Max Speidel and Wolf Maier designed the city library with exposed concrete and large glass surfaces in the architectural style known as "brutalism" (from the French "béton brut" = raw concrete). The sweeping, curved roof cornice is reminiscent of buildings by Le Corbusier. Inside, the unusual ceiling lights in the reading room are surprising.

Before 1970, the city library, founded in 1910, was cramped in the Old Town Hall. Today's collection comprises around 80,000 items.