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100 1 _aLandesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz
245 1 0 _aLandesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz — Mitteilungen Band XVI, Heft 9–12
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-08
508 _aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz — Mitteilungen Band XVI, Heft 9–12" is a regional heritage journal issue written in the early 20th century. This special compilation examines the catastrophic flood in the eastern Ore Mountains, pairing scientific analysis with historical context and practical proposals. It blends meteorology, geology, settlement history, forest management, and a photographic record to document the devastation and argue for prevention and landscape-sensitive recovery. The opening of the volume moves from brief publication notes to a stirring foreword that sets recent global disasters against the night the floods tore through the Müglitz, Seidewitz, and Gottleuba valleys, listing ravaged towns, heavy losses, and introducing a photo atlas as evidence and appeal. A major article then explains the meteorological setup—maritime–continental airflows, orographic rainfall, and the amplifying role of sunspot-linked circulation—showing how polar air clashed with hot, moist masses and was funneled by the Elbe valley. Next comes a clear guide to the region’s tectonic build, relating faulting, valley forms, and groundwater to dam safety and urging careful siting on sound bedrock. A historical study traces settlement and mining from medieval colonization to intensive tin and iron exploitation, tying large-scale deforestation of the high plateau to both flash floods and summer droughts; it adds field observations from the 1927 damage (breached dams, surge waves, vulnerable floodplain housing) and calls for reforestation, removal of cross-valley obstacles, and strict building controls. The section closes by introducing a proposal for protective forests alongside planned reservoirs, before the excerpt breaks off. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cDresden: Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz, 1927
653 _aNature conservation -- Germany -- Saxony -- Periodicals
653 _aSaxony (Germany) -- Periodicals
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78390
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