Seine floods in 1910

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Seine floods in 1910
The Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris on January 28, 1910
The Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris on January 28, 1910
Floodplains in Paris (hatched)
Floodplains in Paris (hatched)
storm Flood
Data
Emergence January 18, 1910
resolution March 8, 1910
Water level 8.62 m (Pont d'Austerlitz in Paris, January 28, 1910 )
Drain 2400 m³ / s (Paris)
consequences
Victim 0
Damage amount 400 million gold francs

The Seine flood in 1910 was - after the flood of 1658 - the second largest known flood on the Seine . It affected most of the Seine valley and, while not causing any fatalities, caused great economic damage, particularly in Paris . The Seine reached its highest level of 8.62 meters at the Pont d'Austerlitz gauge on January 28th. Many quarters of the capital and numerous cities had been flooded several weeks before and after. The rise of the flood lasted about 10 days, the runoff about 35 days.

The tributaries were affected to different degrees due to the independence of different hydrological systems.

During the great flood of 1910, the members of the Assemblée nationale met in boats to be able to resume their work. The Zouaves of the Pont de l'Alma , a sculpture on which the Parisians measure the level of the Seine, had the water up to their shoulders.

course

"Dans un élan généreux, Paris et la France ont secouru les inondés" ("With generous vigor, Paris and France helped the flooded") In: Le Petit Journal February 13, 1910.

causes

The causes of the flood are a combination of several factors:

chronology

High water mark from 1910 in Paris
  • On January 20th, shipping on the Seine in Paris will be suspended because there is not enough space to pass under the bridges.
  • On January 21st, the compressed air factory stops in XIII. Arrondissement the production, which brings the stop of elevators and public clocks.
  • On January 23, the Seine reaches the height of the quay walls designed for floods of the height of 1876: part of Paris is flooded.
  • On January 28, 1910, 22,000 cellars and hundreds of streets were flooded with water and ice and continued to be polluted with sewage. Tens of thousands of underground sewage pits were flooded that were not connected to the municipal sewer system. The tankers who have to evacuate those who remain outside Paris can no longer pass under the bridges. The sanitary situation becomes worrying, with cases of typhus and scarlet fever being reported.
  • In the middle of March the flood subsided completely.

Damage

The flood caused direct damage amounting to 400 million gold francs (≙ more than 1.6 billion euros). In addition, there are 50 million gold francs for the auxiliary workers.

Bookstores and publishers suffered great losses and all their stocks were destroyed.

Ivry-sur-Seine

«Ivry. Monsieur Lépine, préfet de police, donne des indications à Monsieur Fallières. »(" Ivry. Mr Lépine, Prefect of Police, gives Mr Fallière's advice. ")

After the flood, the Pagès Camus vinegar factory exploded, followed by a devastating fire. Ivry-sur-Seine , partially completely destroyed, was by many personalities, such as B. Armand Fallières , Aristide Briand , Alexandre Millerand and Louis Lépine visited.

Paris

In Paris, 20,000 buildings were flooded. Half of the then existing metro network was flooded.

In the banlieue , the situation upstream and downstream was also dramatic with 30,000 flooded houses.

Gennevilliers

In Gennevilliers , the dikes were completely flooded and the leakage of sewage made the situation worse. The parish buildings were particularly affected. More than 1000 apartments were flooded, 150 evacuated and 13 even collapsed.

Villeneuve-la-Garenne

In Villeneuve-la-Garenne the flooding reached catastrophic proportions. Despite the dikes, the water was 1.20 m high in many places. Agricultural land was devastated, houses collapsed and many animals drowned. In parts of the community the houses could be entered through the windows on the first floor. From January 21st, the roads to Gennevilliers and Asnières were under water. On January 26th the schools were evacuated. In the night of January 27th to 28th, the dikes were flooded. The worst affected families were evacuated by boats or makeshift boats. It took a few days for the levels to fall again, but the clean-up work took several weeks.

L'Île-Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis and Épinay-sur-Seine

The floods also caused great damage in the western areas, where today the Seine-Saint-Denis ( L'Île-Saint-Denis , Saint-Denis , Épinay-sur-Seine ) is located.

Hisetal

Since six cleaning and waste incineration plants on the banks of the Seine were inaccessible, Prefect Louis Lépine launched Operation Ordures au fil de l'eau (“Garbage in the watercourse”) to avoid epidemics : 500 Hippomobile wagons collected 1,500 tons of waste every morning and tipped them from the Pont de Tolbiac and the Viaduc d'Auteuil into the Seine to ship them into the English Channel . Due to the receding water levels, the garbage soon began to accumulate on the quays and in the alluvial forests of the downstream communities, causing protests from them.

Photo gallery

In Paris

In the Paris area

High water marks

literature

  • Jeffrey H. Jackson: Paris under water: how the city of light survived the great flood of 1910. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-230-61706-3 (English).
  • Jean-Michel Lecat, Michel Toulet: Paris sous les eaux: de Choisy-le-Roi à Asnières. Chronique d'une inondation, janvier-février 1910. Ouest France, Rennes 2009, ISBN 978-2-7373-4824-2 (French).
  • The flood in Paris : Schweizer Illustrierte , Volume 14.1910, pp. 102-103. ( E-periodica )
  • Paris inondé: la grande crue de 1910. In: Journal des débats. Ed. du Mécène, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-907970-93-8 (French).
  • Philippe Mellot: Paris inondé photographies janvier 1910. Ed. de Lodi, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84690-037-X (French).
  • The flood disaster in Paris in 1910. In: The world. January 24, 2014. ( welt.de ).

Videos

Web links

Commons : Seinehochwasser 1910  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Goede: Crue de la Seine in Paris in 1910. In: Aquadoc France. April 30, 2004, accessed March 9, 2016 (French).
  2. ↑ January 18, 1910: Crue historique de la Seine. In: pluiesextremes.meteo.fr. Retrieved on March 9, 2016 (in French, the highest level of the Seine at the Pont de la Tournelle was 8.50 m on January 29, 1910; the absolute high was 1658 (8.81 m).).
  3. ↑ Michaela Wiegel: Flood scenario for Paris A flood would hit five million people. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 24, 2014, ISSN  0174-4909 , ( faz.net ).
  4. ^ Philippe Mellet: Paris au temps des fiacres . Borée, Romagnat 2006, ISBN 2-84494-432-9 , p. 101 (French).
  5. ↑ Ivry-sur-Seine (94) - Inondation 1910. In: inondation1910.free.fr. Retrieved March 10, 2016 (French).
  6. ↑ exhibition Paris inondé 1910 in the gallery of Bibliothèques., 2010