ᐅ Lintel broken above door – should the door frame and lintel be replaced, or is it harmless?

The brick cladding around our lintel has cracked and is already partially crumbling. The concrete casting underneath is unaffected. It seems like it was already installed damaged.

Our site supervisor recommends replacing it, while the construction manager says it’s harmless (which I expected) as long as only the bricks on the outside are missing. He also mentioned it shouldn’t bear any load.

Unfortunately, I can’t provide pictures. I can’t compress them below 1MB, and sharing images from the cloud is not allowed. Maybe someone can still help.

I was clever once and simply cut out the corresponding section

I would also say harmless, since the brick on the outside does not have a load-bearing function.

In an emergency, the door frame will hold.

Zaba12 schrieb:
In an emergency, the door frame will hold

And what if I don’t install a door frame, but use those colorful tapes like on East German balconies instead?

But what do you think about the crack near the second brick (almost in the middle of the second one)? It’s not clear whether the crack is only superficial on the brick or if it goes all the way through, including the concrete, or am I just imagining it wrong?