Restoration works were interrupted during the war, after 1916. Martha Bibescu lived at Mogosoaia, but she used to go to Bucharest almost daily and work at the hospital founded by Queen Maria. In November 1916, the palace at Mogosoaia was bombed by the German air forces, its owner confessing to Archbishop Raymund Netzhammer that “it had been aimed at due the large roof, easy to locate from distance.”
The damages, rather considerable, concerned more the Elchingen Villa than the palace. Back to Mogosoaia on January 16, 1917, Martha Bibescu, accompanied by Archbishop Netzhammer, discovered the amount of the disaster: “The old castle, still requiring much repair to become habitable, seems ghastly. [...] The war passed through and over the house. [...] Everything is destroyed: the furniture, stolen, and its remains, smashed and turned into chips; the windows, broken, the floors, covered with debris and rubbish, the doors, unhinged.
