As of: March 28, 2024, 9:00 a.m
By: Franziska Seliger
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At the opening of the new Iffeldorf library for students, the children in class 3a immediately began leafing through the books. The Iffeldorf local councilor Michaela Ott, city library employee Sandy Schantz, the acting head of the Iffeldorf elementary school Saskia Gampenrieder, teacher Barbara Jobst, Barbara Lorenz, who will be in charge of the library in the future, and the city library manager were happy about so much encouragement (back from left): Ilka Heissig with Iffeldorf Mayor Hans Lang and his Penzberg counterpart Stefan Korpan. Cooperation with Penzberg © Seliger
At the end of last year, the community library in Iffeldorf closed after more than 30 years. Now a new library for local elementary school students has been launched at the same location. This was made possible by a cooperation between the municipality of Iffeldorf and the Penzberg city library. The first official loan day for the children is in April.
Iffeldorf - The Iffeldorf community library was opened in July 1992 in the community center on the Hofmark, which had existed for four years at the time. Readers young and old had been provided with food here for over 30 years, but with the Corona pandemic the number of users collapsed and never recovered. The library was therefore closed in December 2023 (we reported).
Cooperation between neighbors: Iffeldorf community and Penzberg city library
At this point, however, efforts to create a new form of library were already in full swing in the background. Even back then, Mayor Hans Lang emphasized how important reading was for children and young people and that they wanted to continue to give local elementary school students the opportunity to borrow books. In search of a solution, the municipality of Iffeldorf contacted the city library in Penzberg - and found open ears there when it came to the question of inter-municipal cooperation to build a new library at the Osterseen just for the local elementary school students.
Library for children at the Iffeldorf primary school
In the past few weeks, employees of the Penzberg city library have viewed and sorted the old books from the former Iffeldorf community library, said city library employee Sandy Schantz at the presentation of the new Iffeldorf school library. The Osterseengemeinde, for its part, invested 1,000 euros in a basic range of new books. This has now been entered into the city library, explained city library manager Ilka Heissig. In the future, her team will look through and replace the stock of books in Iffeldorf about every six weeks so that the children always have new and up-to-date reading material. The total inventory currently amounts to around 350 books. There were also some comics there, it was said.
In the room in the community center, the furnishings were also redesigned to be child-friendly with colorful bean bags and large book boxes full of reading material for first-time readers. The initiators agreed that a few comfortable seats should be added in which the first to fourth graders can browse to their hearts' content.
Youngsters learn how to borrow books
“We are very grateful that this cooperation came about,” emphasized Mayor Lang, who once again emphasized the great importance of books for child development. His Penzberg counterpart Stefan Korpan added that most of the Iffeldorf students would later attend secondary schools in Penzberg. It is an advantage if you can read well. And his city is “happy to support its neighboring municipality at any time.” Saskia Gampenrieder, the provisional headmistress in Iffeldorf, also expressed relief about the new library. It is important that young people learn how to borrow books from a library outside of school.
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The facility is run on a voluntary basis by Barbara Lorenz. The Iffeldorf resident will open the library to students once a month. According to the headmistress, the first time was on Monday, April 15th. During the entire school day, all six primary school classes should be able to come in rotation, bring back books they have read and borrow new books.