report vorarlberg.orf.at :
A volcano eruption in Indonesia in 1815 had a dramatic impact in Vorarlberg. One spoke of the "year without summer." The Montafon historian Michael Kasper has examined the consequences for the Montafon.
famine and natural disasters
The mighty ash emissions of the volcano, the average annual temperature for the outbreak by up to four degrees. Crop failures and natural disasters were more episodes, they spoke of 1816 as "Year Without a Summer": It was snowing even in the summer to deep layers, especially in the mountains were not ripe fruit and grain, says Kasper.
rainfall and cold continued during the winter 1816/17, there was a famine and more avalanches. In spring, it quickly turned warm, the consequences were mudslides and floods.
The increased mortality in the Montafon is clear - the people did not die of hunger directly, but from diseases that they would have been better, had they not been weakened by malnutrition. The natural disasters took their toll. Some people walked out of necessity.
official aid was slow in coming
using official was long in coming. reported only when the winter 1816/17 was that people began to cats and dogs to steal and eat, there was support funds from the state, primarily for the purchase of seeds for the following year.
Even within the population being helped: the rich increasingly gave alms, even at increased call between religion and the state. There
reports of violence and brutality, according to Kasper, it is hardly, only the number of thefts and begging had increased.
interview with historian Michael Kasper
ORF Vorarlberg-culture chief Manfred Welte spoke with Michael Kasper.
can simultaneously hear the conversation here.
Michael Kasper: Famine
Length: 8min 14sec
MP3 (5.93 MB)
"culture after 6," 21 October 2010
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