The AP reports that the restoration of Germany’s famed Anna Amalia Library, a UNESCO World Heritage List site gutted by fire three years ago, has been completed, and the building will reopen next week.
The $18.2 million restoration was undertaken after a fire blamed on an electrical fault tore through the roof and top floor of the 16th-century rococo palace that houses the library. The collection centers on German literature from between 1750 and 1850. During that time, Germany’s most revered writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, lived in Weimar. Another German literary great, Friedrich Schiller, best known for his classical dramas, spent the last years of his life in Weimar and died there in 1805.
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