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Church of St. Pierre, Louvain (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Kilted Cowboy said:

  poor Louvain, the church was noted for the fire that destroyed it www.firstworldwar.com/battles/louvain.htm video of the sack of Louvain here www.firstworldwar.com/video/sackoflouvain.htm

• swanq said:

  www.firstworldwar.com/battles/louvain.htm According to this website, The Belgian city of Louvain was occupied by the Germans on August 19, 1914. The Belgians attacked on August 25 and the Germans retaliated by burning and looting the city for 5 days.

Haelen after battle (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  one of many Bain Collection photos of the Battle of Haelen (Belgium), a very early battle of WWI (August 12, 1914). i.e.:
  

• Art Siegel said:

  Cropped from original Agence Meurisse photo shown at Bibliotheque Nationale de France's Gallica site, with
  
  following caption:
  "combats de Haelen et Diest : Haelen après le passage des troupes "
  [Battle of Haelen and Diest: Haelen after the passage of troops]
  
  
  
  
  
  Pub. Date 1914

Library -- Louvain (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Carl Guderian said:

  The library and much of the city of Louvain was set on fire by the occupying Germans in a five-day fit of paranoia between 25 and 30 August 1914, following a failed counterattack by Belgian forces from Antwerp. The library was only rebuilt in 1921, so that should narrow it down a bit. As these things go, yesterday I found this photo, dated 22 Sept 1914, for sale online: Link (won't be there much longer).

• Hiring Librarians said:

  Thanks for sharing this photo, I appreciate being able to get a sense of history. Just wanted to let you know I used it on my blog here: hiringlibrarians.com/2012/05/16/answer-in-a-pithy-manner/

• Viejito said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_libraries_in_Leuven#The_Li...

• Carl Guderian said:

  Hiring Librarians That's perfectly OK!

• Carl Guderian said:

  Viejito Thanks for that. It's also a relief to find out that most of the good stuff survived the fire because it had been looted by Napoleon in 1797 and returned, presumably per the Congress of Vienna of 1815, to other institutions in Belgium.