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Reconstruction work begins on historic German library destroyed by fire last year
From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20050804
Author:
AP Worldstream
08-04-2005
Dateline: BERLIN
Construction teams began restoring the rococo palace that houses UNESCO'S World Heritage List library on Thursday, nearly a year after a fire ravaged the building in the eastern city of Weimar.
Some 50,000 books in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library suffered irreparable damage on Sept. 2, 2004, when a blaze swept through the roof and top floor of the 16th-century palace that was once used by Germany's most revered writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
"This is the most exciting construction site I've ever been on," said Walther Grunwald, an architect ...
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