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The Alpine Rhine and the Valley Floor

Agricultural region

The Rhine valley floor was marsh and flood plain until the corrections and drainage of the 19th and early 20th centuries โ€” the Binnenkanal, the dykes and the great 1927 flood that broke them โ€” and only then became the arable land that grows the maize for Riebel, plus wheat, sugar beet, vegetables and orchard fruit. โš  A MADE LANDSCAPE, and the food follows from the engineering.

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Communities and languages

Languages: German

What is recorded

  • The Rhine valley floor of Liechtenstein was marsh and floodplain until the river corrections, drainage and canal works of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The arable land that supplies the countryโ€™s maize, wheat and vegetables is an engineered landscape of that period. documented
  • Rhine corrections, diking and drainage turn the valley floor from marsh into the countryโ€™s arable land. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Swiss Foodways documented

    The Rhine corrections were a joint Swiss-Austrian-Liechtenstein engineering project and made the valley arable.

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