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Fig. 13: The destroyed „Kaffeebaum“ house in Carlsbad
after the flood of November 1890 (Collection of M. Deutsch)
flood control instructions were prepared with taking
into account results of unofficial gauge level forecasts
for the Labe/Elbe River that had been issued in Prague
since 1884 (Deutsch, Munzar, 2008).
Another result of the Czech-German collaboration
concerning flood alarms on the Elbe/Labe River in
Saxony was the instruction issued by the Königliche
Wasserbau – Direction in Dresden in November 1895 and
titled “Communication to explain the establishment
and operation of the warning system during ice drifts
and floods on the Elbe R. in Saxony”. The warning
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system consisted in regular data that were provided
particularly by institutions in Bohemia, founded earlier
for the observation of watercourses in the Labe/Elbe
River basin (Erläuternde Mittheilungen, 1895).
As a result of the great Danube flood in September 1890,
which even struck Vienna, the capital city of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, completed the long-term
endeavour to establish a hydrological service in its
Austrian part. Thus, in 1893 the Central Hydrographic
Office (Hydrographische Zentralbüro) of the hydraulicengineering
department of the Ministry of the Interior
was eventually founded in Vienna.
The floods in September and November 1890 also
motivated a discussion about flood prevention
measures, particularly about the construction of water
reservoirs in Bohemia and Germany. Several of them
were later constructed. For example, the Březová
reservoir was constructed in 1932 – 1936 on the Teplá/
Tepl R. to protect the spa of Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad.
Acknowledgements
The paper was prepared within the framework
of the Research plan of the Institute of Geonics
ASCR No. AV0Z30860518. Dr. M. Deutsch was
supported by the German Science Foundation
(project No. HE 939/18-3 “Erschliessung und
wissenschaftliche Auswertung des meteorologischen
Teils der Weikinn’schen Quellensammlung zur
Witterungsgeschichte Mitteleuropas”). The authors
would like to thank Mgr. Milan Augustin (Director
of State District Archives in Karlovy Vary) and
RNDr. Pavla Pekárová, DrSc. (Institute of Hydrology
of Slovak Academy of Sciences) for consultations.
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