‘Only walls’ remain: 150-year-old Dutch church goes up in flames amid New Year’s violence

An historic 150-year-old Dutch church, he Vondelkerk, went up in flames in Amsterdam after midnight on New Year’s Day.

According to People, the church and its iconic spire began burning shortly before 1 a.m. Jan. 1.

By the time the fire was finally under control 10 hours later, at 11 a.m., the church’s 164-foot neo-Gothic spire had collapsed and “only walls” remained intact, De Telegraaf reports.

The inferno came as Dutch police faced “unprecedented” levels of New Year’s Eve violence, People reports.