In Wittelsheim (Haut-Rhin).
The layers of fog which, this Wednesday morning, cover the town of Wittelsheim and the surrounding Haut-Rhin countryside, are gradually dissipating, revealing an ordinary landscape.
In appearance only.
Because, here, along the Vosges mountains, the ground moves, hollows out, on approximately 200 km ², putting little by little through everything that was right.
Lopsided houses had to be straightened, the false flat that existed before entering the town of Cernay now shows a slope.
A little further still, under the effect of subsidence of the ground, the village of Bollwiller is now in a basin.
“So much so that we had to build dikes along the waterway that crosses it to prevent the water from remaining trapped in the event of an overflow,”
says Raphaël Schellenberger, the deputy of the department.
Even the steeple of the church in Wittelsheim suddenly found itself at an angle, and had to be put back in line.
During conversations with locals
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