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von Peter van der Krogt
Gesendet: Freitag, 16. Mai 2008 11:28
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Betreff: [MapHist] Fire at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical 
University Delft

All

Last Tuesday 13 May a big cloud was hanging over my hometown of Delft 
when I was returning home from Utrecht.
There was a big fire in the Faculty of Architecture (Faculteit 
Bouwkunde) of the Technical University Delft. It started in the 
morning, and around 5 PM a part of the building collapsed. All people 
were in time out of the building, so there are no persons injured.

The Faculty has (or must I sadly write: had) one of the most 
important libraries in the field of Architecture, with 40,000 books 
including several atlases (Blaeu, Braun & Hogenberg), and a map 
collection of 12,000 maps (topographical maps of the 19th century, 
soil maps, planning maps of the Noordoostpolder, Berlage's plans of 
the new parts of Amsterdam and The Hague, and the plans for the 
rebuilding of Rotterdam after WW II). The older maps (pre-1850) were 
stored in the University Library.

The fate of the library is not known yet. The map curator, Addie 
Ritter, wrote that his depot is almost certainly destroyed, since it 
was in the part of the building that collapsed. The library, which 
was on the ground flour of a different wing of the building, is not 
accessible because the building is instable. It can take three to 
four weeks before it may be entered (the building of 14 stories has 
to be demolished first). The older books were in a safe, but if that 
save them is unknown (the fire lasted for about 24 hours).

There was also a collection of chairs of famous designers and 
maquettes of architects - there would be an exhibit opened yesterday 
15 May. That collection is saved for the major part.

Report (in Dutch naturally) and photos of this fire at the Technische 
Universiteit Delft, with links to newspaper articles:

http://www.historischecartografie.nl/Logboek/Nieuws/Brand-TU-Delft-vernietigt-kaartencollectie.html

Peter

Dr Peter van der Krogt
Map Historian, Explokart Research Program
Faculty of Geo-sciences, University of Utrecht
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