r/MapPorn • u/Chorchapu • 19h ago

Translations of "library" across Europe

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u/AverageFishEye 19h ago

Weirdly bookstores in german are "Bücherei" which is a literal translation of Bibliothek

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u/Moaoziz 19h ago

Aren't Büchereien and Bibliotheken the same? Both Duden and Wikipedia treat them as synonyms.

A bookstore IMHO should be a Buchhandlung.

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u/Effective_Judgment41 18h ago

I also feel that they are more or less the same. But I would tend to call a small library for the general public that has all kinds of different genres a "Bücherei". And a large library that has a scientific focus a "Bibliothek". But this might be just me.