Solidarity Köln Historisches Archiv
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On the afternoon of Tuesday 3 March, the building of the Historic Archive of the city of Cologne in Germany collapsed along with two neighboring buildings. According to news reports, rescue workers are searching for people believed to be missing after the collapse. The building dated from the 1970s and contained some 65,000 original charters as well as valuable collections of maps, images, posters and files.
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Solidarity Köln Historisches Archiv
Category:
Organizations - Professional Organizations
Description:
On the afternoon of Tuesday 3 March, the building of the Historic Archive of the city of Cologne in Germany collapsed along with two neighboring buildings. According to news reports, rescue workers are searching for people believed to be missing after the collapse. The building dated from the 1970s and contained some 65,000 original charters as well as valuable collections of maps, images, posters and files.
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News:
COLOGNE HISTORICAL ARCHIVE - POSSIBILITIES TO HELP

ENGLISH http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/cologne-historical-archive.html
GERMAN http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5566219/
SPANISH (Google Translation) http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=es&u=http%3A%2F%2Fboard-js.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fcologne-historical-archive.html&sl=en&tl=es

VOLUNTEERS for Recovery of Archive documents wanted:
http://www.koelner-stadtarchiv.de/403.html

ENGLISH NEWS - Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XIV (recent news) by Frank Schloeffel (Updated May 7, 2009)
http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/04/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-xv.html

GERMAN NEWS - section Kommunalarchive@Archivalia by Klaus Graf
http://archiv.twoday.net/topics/Kommunalarchive
http://twitter.com/Archivalia_kg

FRENCH NEWS
http://cologne2009.bouclier-bleu.fr/

BLOG ARCHIV_IN TRUEMMERN [Archive in the rubble]
http://www.archiv-in-truemmern.de/

DIGITAL COLOGNE HISTORICAL ARCHIVE
http://www.historischesarchivkoeln.de/ (Figures 958 uploads by 331 users Updated April 2, 2009)
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In Spanish:
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/desaparecidos/derrumbe/Archivo/Historico/Colonia/elpepucul/20090303elpepuint_13/Tes
In English:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/03/germany.cologne.building.collapse/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7921988.stm
In French:
http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2009/03/03/le-batiment-des-archives-municipales-de-cologne-s-effondre_1162876_0.html
http://www.bluewin.ch/fr/index.php/138,128781/Allemagne__un_batiment_des_archives_historiques_s_#39;ecroule_a_Cologne/
In German:
http://www.ksta.de/html/seiten/1236248353938/
http://www.koeln-nachrichten.de/lokales/neues-aus-koeln/historisches_archiv_einsturz.html
http://www.wdr.de/themen/panorama/26/koeln_hauseinsturz/uebersicht.jhtml?rubrikenstyle=panorama

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Response by Cultural Heritage Institutions

Message of sympathy and support for Cologne Archives, ICA, 04.03.2009
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=136045915252&h=5BZ9a&u=FnCFn
Collapse of archives building, Cologne, Germany, ICCROM, 04.03.2009
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=136045915252&h=5BZ9a&u=FnCFn

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WDR
http://www.wdr.de/mediathek/html/regional/2009/03/03/uebersicht-einsturz-stadtarchiv.xml
KSTA
http://ocs.zgk.de/mdsocs/mod_movies_archiv/kategorie/stadtarchiv/ocs_ausgabe/ksta
STERN.DE
http://www.stern.de/panorama/:K%F6lner-S%FCdstadt-Bilder-Verw%FCstung/656566.html?backref=%2Fpanorama%2F%3AK%25F6lns-OB-Schramma-U-Bahn-Bau-Stern%2F657768.html
RUNDSCHAU
http://www.rundschau-online.de/html/fotolines/1236343915753/rahmen.shtml?1
KOELN.DE
http://www.koeln.de/bildergalerien/bilder.php?directory=stadtarchiv090316