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"Memorial Album - Pictures of Our Land" - Diario El Llanquihue - January 2, 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010! has begun a new year which we hope will be very helpful for all lovers of our local history. Best wishes and congratulations to all our readers and community. And since we are entering a new period, we give some comments. With the acceleration of technology and media, today it is possible to discover new passages to our past, both familiar and new stories of events that ever occurred in our area. Also, through the constant search for local researchers have been finding new photographs, many of them unpublished and never before published, which show us a past rich in characters, experiences, events, memorials, buildings, monuments, etc., that to date, if not for these images that immortalized the moment will pass into oblivion all. Through all of these images, which have been able to go collect from family photo albums, at fairs Persians, in the specialized trade both domestic and foreign, and in countless places, it is possible to reconstruct our history, evolution and the development achieved by the city to this day, both social, cultural, geographical, etc. Stories that were often inconclusive or did not have a graphic document to back up his narrative, at present, through the joint efforts of all members of the Centre for Heritage Studies in the province of Llanquihue (CEPH) has been elucidated many episodes that were unclear or were simply missed in the absence of a photograph that said otherwise. is why the old photographs are so important to preserve and properly maintain, since they are a historical document that will allow researchers and local historians study them in depth and in all its aspects, unraveling the details set a Heritage Photographic History Archive, such as our body is formed, will be of great help to know and be putting together a more complete history of Puerto Montt and its surroundings. For this reason we invite the whole community to show your photos that are stored in albums, no matter if they are old or just a few years or decades ago, because each of them may have details that the eye of the researcher could be important to rescue. then I hope with these images and help us learn more about our past. can make contact, thank you for your cooperation, with: * Alejandro Torres (photo researcher property): phones 65-542650 - 95536627 - email: atorres.pm @ gmail.com - President CEPH * César Sánchez (Professor of History): phone 65-255488 - Regional Library (first floor of the Museum Building John Paul II) - email: cesarsanchezvera@hotmail.com - Director CEPH * Juan Carlos Velásquez (Professor of History - German Institute of Puerto Montt) phones 65-713100 - 78709281 - jcvelasquez@ialeman.cl - Director CEPH And every week, then publish our first "album Remembrance "in this new year 2010, the CEPH edit page for the newspaper El Llanquihue, with information and pictures of our database, and material you provide the community. On this occasion the issue of the journal corresponds to Saturday 2 January 2010 A2 page format on paper. ENLARGE To see this page on the website of newspaper El Llanquihue, click here GUILLERMO RENSINGHOFF HOHDAHL He was born on October 8, 1882 in Velbert, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He came to our country in 1910, an employee of the Mertens signature de Valdivia, one of the largest trading houses in Chile. In 1918 he married in Montevideo, Uruguay with Clara Kleffner, who appears in the photograph, born of this union two daughters. In 1926 he retired from the firm Mertens and is associated in business with George Wilhelm opening the Hardware "The Anchor" in Puerto Montt. In 1928 he purchased the hardware and haberdashery Don Albert Scholtbach and establish a branch in the neighborhood Cayenel. Subsequently, the company opened Rensinghoff-Wilhelm local of the same item in several cities in the area, among which include Puerto Varas, La Union, Osorno and Coyhaique. On September 5, 1955, the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany He was appointed Consul in Puerto Montt. He died in Santiago on June 14, 1962, at age 78, after a long illness. VOLCANO ERUPTION CALBUCO On Sunday January 6, 1929 a dull, prolonged rumbling was felt on Puerto Montt, was erupting volcano Calbuco. Had made a major eruption in 1893 and another juvenile characteristics in 1917. The effects of this new eruption, which reached a Volcanic Explosive Index grade 4, had serious consequences in the area stretching from the shores of Lake Llanquihue SE to the NE shores of Reloncaví Breast. In Lake Llanquihue steam schooner Santa Rosa and Gaviota evacuated the residents of Ensenada and transported the victims of the Fish River to overflow. The ashes in the area reached a thickness of 5 cm. The large amount of lava and ashes thrown in a couple of hours on Lake Chapo, caused the sudden rise and overflow waters from the river bed Chamiza, flooding the banks and dragging root trees, animals, and several houses with their residents, resulting in two fatalities. Another effect was the forest fires that destroyed large tracts of fir and larch. The eruption lasted 4 days. The image captured by photographer Karl Ernst from Puerto Varas, shows Calbuco volcano in full eruption. SUMMER FLOOD Rain has always been part of the lives of puertomontinos, as floods caused by it, and it is not surprising that many times at the height of summer are dropped Torrential rains over the city. But what happened in early February 1929, when they usually enjoy the benefits of the beach and the sea was something different. In just three days fell more than 200 mm. water, causing flooding as never before seen. Serious damage to streets and neighborhoods product of this abnormal weather phenomenon, were compounded by the lack of sewers, unpaved roads and overflowing streams that ran along several streets. The estuaries of Guillermo Garcia and Luis Ross Model population completely flooded and the entire center of the city. The buildings, the Cathedral, the City, and Station Square looked like islands in the widespread flooding, which reached up to waist level. Calle San Martin opened a channel to drain into the sea water accumulated in the center, but the force of the stream caused the collapse of much of the street. The overflow channel Egaña street flooded this whole area, including lower parts of the Hospital Santa Maria. The stream that ran por la actual calle Lota, inundó todo el barrio Cayenel, afectando casas y locales comerciales, dejando abundante lodo en sus interiores. En la imagen se aprecia la Estación de Ferrocarriles inundada completamente durante aquel diluvio de verano.