Lodge "Zum schwarzen Bär" Hannover
Stamp of the Lodge Zum schwarzen Bär
In 2018, a book from the library of the Masonic Lodge Zum schwarzen Bär in Hanover could be returned.
The three Hanover lodges – Zum schwarzen Bär, Friedrich zum weißen Pferde and Zur Ceder – maintained a shared library to allow their members to make use of each other's book collections. To this end, the books were marked with the stamp of the shared library of the three lodges in Hanover. The book bears a second stamp (emblazoned with the logo) of the lodge Zum schwarzen Bär. This clearly identifies the lodge Zum schwarzen Bär as the owner of the book. Until Freemasonry was banned in Germany in 1935, the book was held in the shared lodge house at Herrenstraße 9 in Hanover.
In 2008, the Berlin Central and Regional Library purchased the estate library of the writer Johannes Bobrowski, the volumes of which are marked with the ownership stamp ‘Belongs to the library of the poet Johannes Bobrowski’. Among them was also the book of the lodge Zum schwarzen Bär. It is unknown when and from whom Johannes Bobrowski acquired the book.