Danube flood 1954
The Danube flood in 1954 was an exceptionally strong flood event, triggered by rainfall in the Bavarian and Austrian Alpine foothills from July 7th to 11th, 1954.
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It had been raining daily in the foothills of the Alps since June 27, this rain increased from July 1 and then turned into flood rain from July 7. The precipitation in south-eastern Bavaria from July 7th to 11th was over 400 mm, in the Bavarian Forest over 250 mm. Caused by tributaries, the Danube caused extreme floods from Regensburg . The Inn resulted in its mouth in Passau on July 10, almost three times the amount of the Danube water and reached almost the level of the year 1899. In Bavaria had 9000 people to be evacuated, there were twelve deaths, over 150,000 hectares were flooded. In Upper Austria this flood was the strongest in the 20th century. In the Linz city area, 2000 hectares were flooded, 5500 people had to be evacuated. The level in Linz rose to 9.62 m on July 11, this was not reached again by the Danube flood in August 2002 (8.20 m). The floods in the Eferding basin were three times the size of the Traunsee . Since the precipitation in the areas of Enns and Traun was lower and the peaks of the drainage peaks of the Lower Austrian tributaries of the Danube had flowed away a few days earlier, the flood wave flattened from Mauthausen . In Vienna , the Wehlistraße, the Handelskai and the Radstadion in the Prater were flooded.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Undine information platform: Flood events in the Danube region: The July flood in 1954 , accessed on February 22, 2018
- ↑ a b flood in Upper Austria. The greatest flood of the 20th century in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
- ↑ Linz-Süd Aktuell (flood in Linz), accessed on February 22, 2018
- ↑ wien.gv.at: July 12, 1954: Flood disaster in Austria , accessed on February 22, 2018