Tornado over Pforzheim

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The tornado over Pforzheim occurred on the evening of July 10, 1968. It had a strength of F4 on the Fujita scale . The tornado covered about 130 kilometers from the Saar valley in Lorraine to the Enzkreis in Baden-Württemberg . In Pforzheim , the largest affected city, he damaged around 1,750 houses and several hundred motor vehicles. Two people died and 200 were injured. The property damage amounted to over 100 million DM .

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Route of the tornado with information on the duration of the sections covered

The tornado developed around 8:15 p.m. in the Saar valley between Sarraltroff and Oberstinzel . At about 8:27 p.m. he reached the northern Vosges and crossed them in six minutes. At 8:45 p.m. the tornado was registered at La Walck and Überach . In the Hagenau Forest, the tornado initially dissolved around 9 p.m. The tornado was registered again at 9:30 p.m. east of the Rhine on the main heights of the Alb valley in the Black Forest on a direct extension of the path that had previously run almost straight from west to east . At 9:37 p.m. the tornado raged in Ittersbach and moved from there to the east via Ottenhausen , Graefenhausen , Birkenfeld and Pforzheim before it dissolved at 9:50 p.m. east of Neubärental .

Damage

The tornado covered a total of around 130 kilometers, minus the damage-free route between Hagenauer Forst and Black Forest, it drew a 60-kilometer swath of devastation in France and a 35-kilometer swath in Germany. The sometimes considerable forest damage shaped the landscape for decades.

Pforzheim was the largest city on the path of the tornado, so that is where most of the building damage occurred. The tornado also caused severe damage in Neubärental, where 70 of 115 buildings suffered severe damage. In Germany, a total of 3328 buildings were damaged in Baden and 1007 buildings in Württemberg.

Parts of the Pforzheimer Kleinbahn from Pforzheim to Ittersbach and the overhead line of the trolleybus line between Kupferhammer and Dillweißstein were also destroyed . The small train, which should have been shut down in August 1968, was prematurely replaced by diesel buses. Diesel buses also took over the traffic of the trolleybus line until the Stadtwerke repaired the overhead line again.

literature

  • Karl Seeger: The tornado of July 10, 1968 in the Pforzheim area , in: Der Enzkreis. Yearbook '87 / 88 , pp. 163–172.
  • Patrick Sturm: "The trees are in the living room and the furniture in the garden". The Pforzheimer Tornado of July 10, 1968. Verlag regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2018, ISBN 978-3-95505-098-6 .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tornadoliste.de
  2. ↑ Weather online: Tornado of Pforzheim ( Memento from July 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )