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Historic Library to Reopen After Fire
From: AP Online
Date: 20070216
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WEIMAR, Germany - A historic German library that was gutted by fire in 2004 will reopen in October following a $15.8 million restoration, officials said Friday.
The Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar is to reopen with a ceremony on Oct. 24, and the building "will look different inside and out from how we remember it," said Hellmut Seemann, president of the Foundation of Weimar Classics.
The Sept. 2, 2004 fire tore through the roof and top floor of the 16th-century rococo palace, which houses the library in the city where the nation's most revered writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ...
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