July 26, 2009: Nachterstedt Landslide

[ZenGum]

"... a semi detached house ..."


I think its fully detached now.


That is a huge engineering failure. Someone is going to be in TROUBLE about this.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

That is a huge engineering failure. Someone is going to be in TROUBLE about this.

I could be wrong, but at first glance it looks like it's located in former East Germany, and the houses appear to be old enough to be from that era. If that's the case, then who are they going to go after? It's a different country now.

Edit: A Babelfish translation of the Wikipedia entry says the houses are from the 30's.

The slipped location was part of an open mining dump from the time 1926 ago, which was released into the 1930er years for land development with homes of one's own. [3] It is assumed that unverfüllte distances from the second half 19. Century, when the coal was won still in the foundation engineering, causes of the landslide to be could. [4] [5] as a cause more probably is however a setting flowing. 1950 and 1959 had already occurred in the open mining by setting flowing caused landslides, whereby 1959 a worker died. [6] The legal successor of the former operator company, the Federal LMBV, promised unbureaucratic assistance to the concerning and furnished in the local administration a care office.

Looks like there's a legal successor of the former mine. And they are on the hook for this.

[Spexxvet]

The drop-off from houses to lake level is about 150 feet.