Danube flood in 1830

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Eduard Gurk - Leopoldstadt, Jägerzeile , on March 2, 1830
High water mark in the Augarten

The Danube flood in Vienna in 1830 from February 26th to March 10th 1830 was an extraordinarily strong flood of the Danube . It was the last major flood of the Danube in Vienna caused by an ice rush .

course

The flood inundated Leopoldstadt in what is now the 2nd district and other settlements near the Danube such as Floridsdorf , Leopoldau and Rossau and caused enormous damage. On February 28, 1830, drift ice had formed an ice rush near Stadlau , which then broke on the night of March 1. The water masses made their way from Leopoldau via Breitenlee , Markgrafneusiedl , Großhofen , Glinzendorf , Rutzendorf , Kimmerleinsdorf , Breitstetten , Haringsee , Straudorf and Wagram an der Donau over the Marchfeld and flowed back into the river bed of the Danube at Stopfenreuth . A total of 74 people were killed in the tidal wave. Kimmerleinsdorf was almost completely destroyed. The brooks of the Vienna Woods and the Vienna River could also no longer drain and also overflowed their banks. As a result, large parts of the urban area were under water for days. Far worse, however, the city met occurring after cholera - epidemic caused by the flooded cesspools and thereby contaminated groundwater has been triggered. Around 2,000 people had died of cholera by December 1831.

consequences

After the floods and the subsequent cholera epidemic, all of the city's major streams were gradually vaulted and converted into canals . (see also history of the Viennese sewer system )

This and the next great Danube flood in 1862 ultimately gave the impetus for the Viennese Danube regulation .

literature

  • Franz Sartori : Vienna's Days of Danger and the Rescuers from Noth. , Gerold, Vienna 1820, Volume 1 in full text in the Google book search
  • Karl Brunner, Petra Schneider [ed.]: Environment city. History of nature and living space Vienna. Vienna: Böhlau 2005
  • Severin Hohensinner, Andreas Hahmann: Historical floods of the Vienna Danube and its tributaries: Materials on the environmental history of Austria (Volume 1) , Center for Environmental History Vienna, 2015. ( Online )
  • Heinz Krejci: Expedition into the cultural history of wastewater. Vienna: City of Vienna / MA30 - Vienna Canal 2004

Web links

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