That night, the mayor of Wildenstein, Ludovic Marinoni, asked whether the population should be evacuated. “At some point I thought about it,” he said on June 28, a few months after the bad weather.
November 13, 2023 tonight , the situation was unprecedented. “On the night of November 13-14, we experienced the worst flood ever recorded, more severe than in 1990 and 1983. Due to the measures implemented by Dreal (Regional), the river Thur has reached the departmental road crossing the city at levels never reached before. Directorate of Environment, Planning and Housing). »
After several hours of incessant rain, the Hasenlochrunz, a tributary of the Tour, was the first to rise conspicuously in this deep valley surrounded by steep slopes. On one level…