Rohr, Christian (24 October 2018). Ice jams and their impact on urban communities from a long-term perspective (Middle Ages to 19th century) (Unpublished). In: Urban Water Colloquium. Kiel. 23.-26.10.2018.
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Ice jams and subsequent floods are among the most disastrous events in cities situated on the riverside. In pre-modern times, before the large stratification projects of the 19th century began, freezing rivers with a thick ice cover had been much more likely than today. This is caused by a slower current due to a widely spread and shallower riverbed, the lower temperatures during Little Ice Age and the lack of warm effluents by industrial complexes. When the ice broke up again in late winter, the ice floes sometimes were stuck in shallow areas or by bridges. An ice jam could let the water rise very quickly and in some cases much higher than even during the worst summer floods. Urban quarters were flooded within a very short time and gave the afflicted inhabitants hardly any time for rescue activities. The low water temperature made it nearly impossible to survive in the floods. The paper focuses on examples from central Europe from the Middle Ages to the disastrous ice floods of 1784 and 1830 and asks for the development of coping strategies and the emergence of memory cultures in an urban context.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History 10 Strategic Research Centers > Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Economic, Social and Environmental History |
UniBE Contributor: |
Rohr, Christian |
Subjects: |
900 History 900 History > 940 History of Europe |
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English |
Submitter: |
Christian Rohr |
Date Deposited: |
25 Oct 2018 12:41 |
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05 Dec 2022 15:18 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Ice floods, Danube River, Middle Ages, Early Modern Times, Krems, Vienna |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/120641 |
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