Cologne Archive Building Collapses in Germany

Posted by admin on Mar 3, 2009

The building housing Cologne’s municipal archive collapsed on Tuesday, bringing parts of some surrounding structures down with it. At least two people are missing.

First they heard loud creaking noises. Then, workers in the Cologne city archive building were ordered to get out as quickly as they could. Shortly afterwards, the entire structure collapsed, bringing down parts of neighboring buildings along with it.

Cologne’s historical archive is the largest such municipal collection north of the Alps. It contains some 65,000 documents pertaining to the city’s history, including one dating all the way back to the year 922. The archive also contains some half a million photographs. The building which collapsed on Tuesday was built in 1971 to house the archive.

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