In a residential area in Schopfheim, Baden-Württemberg, several houses have been evacuated after a landslide. A slope had slipped about four meters over a length of 40 meters, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. Nobody got hurt. Four houses are currently uninhabitable. In one house, the landslide goes to the foundation. It is therefore “acutely endangered”. The area of a terrace has already sunk.
A geologist and the land surveying office examined the slope after the incident on Tuesday afternoon and would now have to decide how the slope can be stabilized again. The spokesman sees the weather of the past few days as the cause of the landslide in the city in the Black Forest. In addition to the snowmelt, it rained heavily for several days in Schopfheim and the soil was very soft. Several media had previously reported on the incident.
Rain and melting snow had recently also exposed the Eichener See near Schopfheim. It is a temporary lake whose appearance is difficult to predict, as Patrick Schmidtner from the Schopfheim Tourist Information Office told the German Press Agency. Currently, the Eichener See is around 120 meters long, 60 meters wide and an estimated 2.80 meters deep.
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