Fire in famous Weimar Anna Amalia Library

I hope theyve installed a nitrogen blanketing device that kicks on when a fire is detected. Such a collection is irreplaceable.

Is there an inventory list of works lost?

I suppose they did the first.

The answer to your second question is here:

Catalogue of lost and damaged books of the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek

(Not included are about 10, 000 books, which had only been catalogised in file-card boxes (card indexes).)

Source

A duplicate of the so-called Borghese Gladiator cranes in the historical Duchess Anna Amalia library in Weimar, Monday, Oct. 15, 2007. The library is expected to be re-opened on Oct. 24, 2007. A fire threatened most precious libraries with a collection of some 850,000 books Thursday evening, Sept. 2, 2004, in Weimar, the capital of German classical culture. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)



The renovated library.

Really, very nice now (I'd had the pleasure to vist the renovated main room last Satrday and saw the outside dily over the weekend :wink: )

It's gorgeous.

And what a great work they've done: 58 craftsmen, for instance, repaired (and prepared) the wooden walls, bookshelfs etc - the originals! - and then they put the new paint (made by original, old recipes) on it: nothing to be seen from that work now.

(Only 250 per day are allowed ot go inside - until December, at least. And of course no photographing, but I'll post some oics from outside tonight.)

(To the right of the statue is the main building of Weimar's "Liszt School of Music" (University Conservatory of Music).