VMs: Re: Klementinum and the Elbe

[Jan Hajic <hajic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have no news about the library, since the area is still
generally closed; but just to correct the Subject:, Prague
is on the Vltava river (Moldau in German); Labe (Elbe in
German)  flows about 30km north of Prague, where it is
joined by Vltava and then continues to Germany.

Other than that, I can confirm that the building is on the 
bank of the river, just next to the historic Charles Bridge, 
and thus that it is highly likely that the basement has been 
flooded.

-- Jan Hajic

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Luis V[ISO-8859-1] élez wrote:

> Charles Davis writes "From report on the severe flooding in Prague from 'In
> The Guardian' (Aug 14):
> 
> "Government employees could be seen frantically evacuating books and rare
> documents from the basement of the national library, the Klementinum, which
> houses six million tomes, including priceless medieval manuscripts. Books
> were also removed from the Czech senate in the Waldstejn palace, while
> curators at the city's famous Kampa museum were forced to move its
> collection of modern art to higher floors. " 
> 
> and a comment posted by Anonymous Poster on Wednesday, August 14:'
> 
> 'Considering that the National Library is right on the bank of the river,
> right by the Charles bridge, this is a very serious issue.'
>