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MoraVian geographical reports 4/2010, Vol. 18
reached height of culmination was recorded by floodmarks,
one of them being situated by the entrance to
the hotel Elefant (Fig. 12); another one can be found
in the interior of the theatre. Then the water began
to fall rapidly on 24 th November after the noon. It
left great damages behind – severely destructed
were 14 bridges, 240 houses and 400 shops and
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boutiques. The building of Kafeebaum half-collapsed
(Fig. 13) and other two buildings were uninhabitable
due to collapse risk. The flood took the life of prominent
mayor Eduard Knoll who impressed a modern face to
the town of Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad. Organizing with
an unflagging zeal all rescue works he suffered heart
attack due to exhaustion and died (Schönbach, 1997).
Fig. 8: A residential building in the town of Camburg on the bank of the Saale River. Flood-marks on its wall were
restored in 1998. They clearly indicate that the highest recorded flood waters were here on 25 th November 1890,
which reached 7.18 meters above the water-gauge zero point during the culmination (Photo M. Deutsch)
Fig. 9: A flood-mark on the western portal of the Church
of St. Nicholas in the town of Kahla (south of Jena)
shows the water level of the Saale R. during the flood
of 24 – 28 th November 1890 (Photo V. Tympel)
Fig. 10: The reminder of problems during the disastrous
flood on the Saale R.in November 1890 was still vivid in
peoples’ mind after more than 30 years. A wall painting in the
Thuringia’s village church of Oelknitz (Photo M. Deutsch)