Biblioteca Universitaria y Estatal de RheinMain

La biblioteca universitaria se fundó en 1971 con la creación de la Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas de Wiesbaden. Heredó las colecciones de libros de la Baugewerkschule de Idstein , que se habían ido construyendo desde 1869 y que inicialmente permanecieron allí. En sus inicios, solo existían salas de biblioteca anexas a las facultades, hasta 1982, cuando las bibliotecas de varias facultades se unieron en un nuevo edificio en Kurt-Schumacher-Ring. En 1992 se añadieron nuevas sedes en Bleichstraße (actualmente una extensión de Bertramstraße) y en 2003 en la biblioteca del campus de Unter den Eichen.

The library goes back to the administrative government library in Usingen Castle initiated by Charlotte Amalie von Nassau-Usingen in 1730, which moved to the former Old Castle on the market square in Wiesbaden in 1744. In the course of German secularization from 1803, it was greatly expanded by considerable additions from monastery libraries. It has been open to the public since 1813 and, as the Duchy of Nassau's public library, was granted the right to deposit copies - this year is therefore regarded as the actual founding year of the State Library. In 1821, it moved into the Erbprinzenpalais in Wilhelmstraße. After Nassau became Prussian in 1866, the library was given the name Königliche Bibliothek Wiesbaden (Royal Library Wiesbaden), it moved from the center to the periphery and experienced a period of crisis with a considerable decline in new acquisitions. It was not until 1900 (when the library was transferred to municipal ownership and renamed "Nassau State Library", with Erich Liesegang (1860–1931) and Gottfried Zedler as key librarians), that a fundamental reorganization and exemplary re-cataloguing led to an upswing, as a result of which the library was able to move into the newly constructed building in Rheinstraße in 1913, where it is still located today.

After 1918, the relative impoverishment of the city also made itself felt in the state library. In 1938, the regional association for the administrative district of Wiesbaden in the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau became the library's sponsor, which meant that the administrative business was effectively taken over by Nazi functionaries in the service of Provincial governor Wilhelm Traupel.

During the Second World War, the library relocated numerous valuable holdings (including the Wiesbaden Codex and the illuminated Scivias Codex of Hildegard of Bingen, both from the 12th century, as well as several medieval manuscripts from Schönau Abbey to Dresden (Girozentrale Sachsen) for security reasons. These works have been lost since they were confiscated by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany in December 1945. Only the Wiesbaden Codex returned to the Library in 1948. The State Library was the only academic library in Hesse to survive the air raids of the war years completely unscathed. In 1953, the new federal state of Hesse took over its sponsorship. As a result, the building was renamed the Hessian State Library in 1963.