National Berlin Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage

(Local Name: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz) After the Second World War, Berlin's libraries became broken up. The collections of the former Prussian State Library had been decimated during the war and it was not possible to bring them together again when the war ended. The German State Library (Deutsche Staatsbibliothek) was opened in the old building in East Berlin, while in West Berlin the National Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage (Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz) was founded and housed in a new building on the Culture Forum at the end of the 1970s. When the Berlin Wall fell, both libraries were again merged into one under the name of National Berlin Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage, but occupying separate premises.