The courtyards of the former Carmelite monastery of St. Anna (1321) in Augsburg are known as Im Annahof. During the Reformation, the monastery was dissolved and the church converted into a Protestant parish church. The former cloister eventually became home to a high school and the municipal library. Both institutions later received separate buildings elsewhere.
The Augsburg City Library, founded in 1537 and the original cell of today's State and City Library, had one of the most extensive and important book collections of all in the 16th century: in 1575, the then city librarian David Höschel had a printed library catalog created based on the model of the Leiden University Library - the second oldest ever. While around 1,500 titles were counted in Leiden, there were 8,500 in Augsburg.
The library building in the form of a gallery with originally seven tent roofs and a tower for an observatory became too small in the 19th century. It was finally demolished in 1894 and an extension was built for the Anna-Gymnasium, built by Elias Holl. The Annahof served as a schoolyard until the school moved in 1967. In 2006, the architectural firm Endres and Tiefenbacher finally built an underground car park and designed a small 'piazza' above it. (Source Augsburger-plaetze.com)