After the rain cape: The royal stables will benefit from an emergency protection status

One day after the suppression of the fire in the King's Stables, the authorities were urged to take further "fire" measures aimed at rebaduring the public that the iconic landmark would be preserved. . Such "rain cap" type measures are taken whenever a valuable building is burned, ruined or desperately neglected, but the saved relics almost disappear

The most damaged by the fire is the part King's stables belonging to the Ministry of the Interior. The Office does not use it. In the future, it may remain partly for administrative functions, and under a museum section. Сн.

The fire of the royal stables of Sofia once again revealed the serious problems of the preservation of cultural heritage in Bulgaria. After "the extremely unpleasant incident" (in the words of the Minister of Culture Boil Banov) the state structures were triggered urgently

The burned part of the complex will be restored at least as before the fire and thanks to his property of the Ministry of the Interior. This may not have happened quickly if it was privately owned – the tobacco warehouses in Plovdiv, which were left at the mercy of the time for 2 years, are not available.

However, we do not know if the precious building will be really restored. The reason is the imprecision of his property. The municipality and the ministry have so far discovered 7 owners of the King's stables – mainly state institutions.

Some of them belong to private owners, including the owner of the site – "Eurotransbyl" EOOD. The company withdrew the property after an agreement with the Sofia District Court, which is currently under investigation. On a favorable outcome, the complex can again become a state property.

And if the King's stables can have a happy ending after innumerable acts, and after a vague number of years, the problem remains with the hundreds of private retirement homes. Apart from the paper, they can not yet be protected by their unscrupulous owners, for whom they were "a burden" (in the words of Deputy Mayor of Sofia, Todor Chobanov)

Theoretically, the State can repair them on its behalf against the mortgage of the property. However, the procedure was cumbersome, cumbersome and did not work. That is why the Minister of Culture Boil Banov talked about legal changes that would make it easier for him

A protection statute that does not change much

The Royal Stables will receive a status preliminary cultural in mid-August Boil Banov Monday, shortly after Prime Minister Boyko Borisov ordered that the building be done as soon as possible in order to obtain such status. The order of Borisov was given after a meeting with the Minister of Culture, Yordanka Fandakova, Mayor of Sofia, and Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev
The Ministry of the Interior will restore the roof burned, but there is no commitment to a more serious restoration. Сн.

However, Mr. Banov himself does not believe that this measure will provide additional protection to the building, as it is expected that the decision will be appealed and that the King's stables will be protected and without status. However, Banov would take this move in response to populist discourses on the subject. It was also a demonstration to private owners that the state would not allow the demolition of the site.

Indeed, the procedure to restore the status of the Royal Stables as a monument of culture of national importance lasts a long time. He was initiated at the request of the Municipality of Sofia, but it is not over yet – what Deputy Mayor Chobanov blamed Banov Sunday

According to the Minister, the problem was not the slow pace of the National Institute of Real Estate Cultural Heritage, to carry out the procedure, and in the "real estate market there". They did not identify the owners of the buildings which, according to the law, should be informed of the granting of the status. In addition, the investigation, filming and badysis of the building were completed in April

. However, even without it, the detailed layout of the property does not permit upgrading, improvement or destruction of the stables. In addition, the building is located in the historic center of Sofia and any intervention on it must be agreed with the Ministry of Culture. Banov says that such projects will not be approved. However, it is not clear if he can go to another time with another minister, for example. Banov explained that all cultural values ​​are protected by law, but "we can not put a cordon of policemen on every site."

Because of the "property davers" related to the King's stables, on the day of the fire, no one can say with certainty what is the affected part of the building. On Monday it became clear that the roof of a property belonging to the Ministry of the Interior was set on fire. Interior Minister Valentin Radev promised to be rehabilitated

The wounded part of the complex is actually the place where the King's stables were actually, Todor Chobanov explained. He identified this part of the building as the most valuable, with the opposite corner, of Dondukov Boulevard. In it, the municipality also held vehicles of the royal era, which have no place to exhibit

The ownership of the property in the center of Sofia is fragmented. It houses one of the faculties of the National Academy of Arts. Сн.

The inspection of the institutions showed that the property in the King's stables has 7 departments. Banov and Chobanov did not mention them by name, but added that there are many private owners, including single rooms. The big problem is that the land and part of the building are owned by "Euritransbuild" EOOD of the former boss of KTB, Yanko Ivanov. Due to their sale to the Ivanov company, a lawsuit against former regional governor Veselin Penev was instituted. According to Chobanov, if it ends up in favor of the prosecutor's office, the case could be broken

Some people want their number to pbad

And according to Chobanov, and according to Banov the fire in the King's stables are not incidental incident. The prosecutor's office said that no version was excluded from the investigation: "We are afraid that this will be a deliberate act," said Chobanov. According to him, it is not a coincidence if this is happening now when the proclamation of the construction of cultural value is in its final stage

"Some people want to pbad a figure This will not happen C & D Is one of the first buildings institutions in Bulgaria, some people are trying to get out the public, the arsenal of these investors is great, the buildings are a burden to them, they only measure the built-up areas, "said Mr Chobanov.
Culture Minister Boil Banov (right) and Deputy Mayor Sofia Todor Chobanov are of the opinion that the fire in the historic building is intentional. Сн. BENNS

In his emotional tone Banov said: "I am afraid to stop this way infantile, abominable, hideous to ruin the cultural heritage." He has repeated several times that even if destroyed, the monuments of culture can only be restored in their authentic form, but are not replaced by new buildings

With Hands Attached [19659004] that the law requires the owners of cultural property to return them even after a arson, the state has no serious mechanism to compel them to do so. This is the case of tobacco warehouses in Plovdiv, the Zaharna factory in Sofia, the so-called Double House, whose status is to be returned, and many other buildings. The most problematic were those with a fuzzy property. Banov did not know what their number was.

The law authorizes the municipality or the state to mortgage the property and to make a restoration at its expense. However, the procedure does not apply in practice. Thus, according to Banov, the only mechanism of the state was the talks. "We have to somehow be able to get it (the troubled house – ba), correct it, nationalize it, as bad as it sounds," said the minister. In order to find a way, he promised imprecise legal changes that he would propose in September

The goal was three warnings ignored to the owner to repair the building, to revoke for the benefit of the state. Poor Heritage

Banov complains of the bad legacy of previous decades. It included about 30,000 cultural monuments that were declared but not examined and badyzed. For some of them, there is no reason to be protected at the moment, like guerrilla homes. "There are a lot of scribbles," said Mr. Chobanov

. Work on these buildings has prevented the operation of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage, which "walks every month". In order to stimulate employees, their salaries would increase by 40%. In addition, the digitization of documents for cultural monuments is approaching the beginning of the project – something that has been said for years