Suburban disaster
The suburban disaster was an event in which on July 5, 1887 the banks of Lake Zug collapsed in the Swiss city of Zug and 35 houses sank in the lake. Eleven people were killed and around 650 were left homeless.
history
The Zug suburb was built on geotechnically unstable sea chalk . The Ost-West-Bahn-Gesellschaft wanted to implement a Quai project there from the 1860s. The project contract went to the engineer Franz Karl Stadlin , Karl Pestalozzi prepared an initial report, and the construction projects for the Zug quay system were discussed politically for decades. Work on the quay began in the 1880s. Cracks caused the city council to commission Albert Heim and Robert Moser with a report, which was completed in July 1884 and called the work into question. It is probably due to the influence of the building president Clemens Henggeler that the report by Heim and Moser was hardly discussed in the city council and the work continued.
On the day of the disaster, July 5, 1887, the subsoil at the site of the quay work lost its firmness. In the afternoon, several buildings on the bank collapsed into the lake and several people died. A second bank break followed in the evening: shortly before seven o'clock the walls of the Zug suburbs shook, the residents fled in panic when the houses collapsed and sank into the lake. In total, eleven people died, around 650 people were left homeless and 35 buildings were destroyed. A bay about 150 meters long opened up, reaching about 70 meters into the land. Roofs of sunken houses peeked out in the bay, household items, beams and furniture swam in the lake. The bank break-in caused a tidal wave that washed a steamship ashore.
After a few days, disaster tourism began; Onlookers who came from far away let themselves be driven to the demolition zone on ships for 40 centimes.
In the northern part of the break-in zone, a memorial stone with a poem by Isabelle Kaiser has been commemorating the accident since 1887 . Following the disaster, the Rigiplatz was built by Robert Moser in 1891 . In addition, the surrounding houses on the "Neuer Quai" were demolished for security reasons and the Rössliwiese was created. The name of the disaster bay is derived from the suburban disaster .
In the State Archives of the Canton train numerous files found for suburban disaster.
Quotes
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"[...] and so the cantonal military director [...] ordered the 1st and 2nd companies of the Auszugbatallons 48 [...]. This relatively strong contingent took place in consideration of the large crowd of audiences that was expected on Sunday 10 July and that would actually arrive, thousands of whom came from all over the place [...]. It was teeming with photographers and reporters from domestic and foreign newspapers. "
“Hikers in the morning light / greet this rock! / Should be a memorial of honor! / People died in the flood, / happiness in pieces, home and [nd] good! / - But it shines near and far ... / Higher still like rock and star, / Still up to God's advice / Raises the confederates deed! / Earth give way, sun and light, / But brotherly love is not! "
literature
- Christof Buri, Christian Raschle: The fall of the Zug suburb on July 5, 1887 . In: Non-profit society of the Canton of Zug (ed.): Zuger Neujahrsblatt . Zug 1987, p. 5–46 ( zugerneujahrsblatt.ch [PDF; accessed on September 29, 2019]).
- The Zuger Vorstadt: Commemorative publication on the 100th anniversary of the suburban disaster of July 5, 1887 . Zug 1987, ISBN 3-85761-234-7 .
swell
- History of the city of Zug in the doku-zug.ch database
- Construction quality in the doku-zug.ch database
- Construction activity of the city of Zug in the doku-zug.ch database
- Suburb in the doku-zug.ch database
- Public construction city of Zug in the doku-zug.ch database
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Christof Buri, Christian Raschle: The fall of the Zug suburb on July 5, 1887 . In: Non-profit society of the Canton of Zug (ed.): Zuger Neujahrsblatt . Zug 1987, p. 5–46 ( zugerneujahrsblatt.ch [PDF; accessed on September 29, 2019]).
- ↑ a b Marcel Amrein: When a city sinks into a lake. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 5, 2012, accessed December 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Christof Buri, Christian Raschle: The downfall of the Zuger Vorstadt on July 5, 1887. In: Zuger Neujahrsblatt 1987 , p. 33.
- ↑ a b Brigitte Moser: Think! Memories of a historical event . In: Art in the public space of the city of Zug . Edition Hochparterre , Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-909928-37-8 , p. 114–125 ( online [PDF]).
- ↑ a b Views of the Lake of Zug . doku-zug.ch , Zug 2014, ISBN 978-3-85761-310-4 , The Zug suburb disaster of 1887, p. 12-13 .