Vilterser-Wangser Canal

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Vilterser-Wangser Canal near Trübbach with the mouth of the Rhine, 1964

The Vilterser-Wangser Canal was built at the beginning of the 20th century as part of the drainage of the Rhine plain (see St. Gallen Rhine Valley ).

The canal begins in the municipality of Vilters-Wangs between these two villages, which together form a political municipality, at the confluence of the Grossbach and the Vilterserbach ( Lage ). It flows north or north-east and crosses the A3 motorway and the railway lines at Sargans . To the north of the Sarganser Au it flows parallel to the railway line of the Rhine Valley and takes on the Saar on the right. After it touches Trübbach , it flows into the Rhine at the Rheinau , which is also canalized there ( Lage ).

The drainage of the Rheinebene was complicated by the fact the sole of the Rhine by deposition of that attachment lifted. In 1954, the backwater caused by a flood of the Rhine led to the flooding of large areas of the plain. The current mouth of the Vilterser-Wangser Canal was created after the floods of 1954, when the river, which was then still part of the Saar, was moved 2.5 kilometers down the Rhine.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Rohner: The inland water correction in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley. In: Internationale Rheinregulierung (Ed.): The Alpine Rhine and its regulation. International Rhine Regulation 1892–1992. 2nd edition, BuchsDruck, Rorschach 1993, ISBN 3-905222-65-5 , pp. 294-300, here pp. 294, 296.

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