We wrote it in May: We would like to deliberately rot the remains of the former hospital in Bavaria in order to be able to justify that it is in bad shape and raze it to the ground in order to rebuild something new…. that we wouldn’t have it any other way. Last night the building experienced a new destructive episode. A big fire broke out there on the wooden roof, where it was still possible, shortly after 7 pm on Sunday evening. Despite the rapid arrival of the firefighters (whose barracks are located a few tens of meters away), it was already too late to stop the fire from spreading inside the building due to the excessive risk of the roof collapsing .
More than thirty men were mobilized on the spot with about fifteen vehicles and reinforcements from Hermalle, Grivegnée and Flémalle. A civil defense tank also arrived at the scene. The attack was mainly carried out from the freestanding stairs and from the rear of the building. The fire was extinguished during the night and there are currently no injuries. Its origin is not yet known.
Regularly squatting, the site of the former Bavarian hospital had already suffered a fire in November 2010, which destroyed the front roof and the attic. And then, in 2017, the fire flared up again, further damaging this area of the roof, requiring a lot of work for firefighters to put out the flames. Both have been advertised as being of accidental origin.
With yesterday’s so this is the third fire important in the remains of the old Bavarian monumental entrance, which had been preserved when the rest of the hospital complex was demolished in the late 1980s. Over the years, the building deteriorated inexorably. Will it be the coup de grace this time? In any case, there is now talk of a possible demolition even if the restoration and redevelopment of the former entrance built as part of the redevelopment of the site as a whole is still planned. (As is the adjoining chapel, which is listed and apparently intact.) But without a serious oversight, no one seems to have cared that its fate was as dire as that of the old dentistry which, a little further on, had finally been demolished with noise because it was too deteriorated.
Keep or demolish the monumental entrance of the old ruined hospital in Bavaria?