As of: February 15, 2024, 1:21 p.m
By: Johannes Welte
Comments
Press
Split
A series of rock falls is currently keeping the residents of the Alps in suspense.
Avalanches bury skiers and a mysterious series of earthquakes alarms science.
The high mountains in the middle of Europe have always been a dangerous zone.
Here are the biggest Alpine disasters since the end of the Ice Age.
1 / 15The Eibsee was hit by a landslide thousands of years ago.
© IMAGO/xleonid_titx
2 / 15When Hannibal marched through the Alps with his elephants, he lost thousands of men, women and animals to avalanches and rockfalls.
© via www.imago-images.de
3 / 15On Lake Geneva in 563 AD, a landslide caused a devastating tsunami.
© IMAGO/xcm2012x
4 / 15At Dobratsch in Carinthia in 1348, after an earthquake, a huge landslide occurred, in which up to 17 villages are said to have been buried.
© IMAGO/Zoonar.com/Karin Jaehne
5 / 15The Piuro landslide was captured in an engraving by Martin Zeiller.
© via www.imago-images.de
6 / 15The Goldau landslide in 1806 buried the villages of Goldau, Röthen and smaller towns.
457 people were killed.
© Franz Xaver Triner / Gabriel Lory - helveticarchives.ch;
Swiss National Library, Prints and Drawings Department/Wikipedia
7 / 15Photo of the bay from 1887 after the disaster - houses collapsed, tipped over or sank.
© During work on the quay for a railway line, the entire suburb slipped into Lake Zug.
8 / 15The avalanche accident in Blons: 82 residents of 14 farms were buried by a dust avalanche.
34 of them died.
© Helmut Klapper, Vorarlberg State Library/wikipedia
My news
Silent widespread disease: More and more people in Germany are being diagnosed with endometriosis
Rockfalls in Italy: Search for missing people after rockfalls - roads buried at a popular lake and in Trentino read
Stone avalanche thunders onto the Brenner Road in South Tyrol and causes traffic jams
Austrian community puts “invisible” speed traps into operation
Suddenly it's raining dog poop in Stockholmlesen
Man helps give birth on sidewalk - baby's mother thanks him in a special wayread
9 / 15The Longarone dam collapse was caused by a landslide.
Hundreds of people died after warnings were ignored.
© imago/United Archives International
10 / 15An avalanche rolled over the Schneefernerhaus on the Zugspitze in 1965.
Ten people died.
© Blumenthal Collection, Garmisch-Partenkirchen Market Archives
11 / 15The 1976 Friuli earthquake was devastating.
It claimed 989 lives.
© imago stock&people
12 / 15A huge avalanche destroyed several buildings in the Tyrolean town of Galtür, killing 38 people.
© Hbf Minich/dpa
13 / 15A German couple was killed on the Gotthard motorway in 2006 by a huge boulder that fell on their car.
© epa Keystone Sigi Tischler
14 / 15An ice fall on the Marmolada killed eleven mountaineers in the Dolomites and eight others were injured, some seriously © IMAGO/Andrea Solero
15 / 15A huge mudslide trapped the Mittenwaldbahn train.
© ÖBB