Description: This dataset compiles historical socio-economic, demographic and hydrological records from between 1611 CE to 1800 CE to provide contextual information for primary-source data on salmon catches in the Mulde catchment and the German Elbe river system. Local economic conditions are represented by a historical series of market prices for "grain" (Korn, probably rye), selected because it offers the highest temporal density among the available grain-price records. The series was compiled from Kamprad's annals by Schellenberg and extended to 1841, with reporting intervals ranging from 0.2 to 16 years (mean approximately four years). Prices recorded in Thaler, Gulden, Groschen and Pfennig were standardised as decimal Gulden. Demographic conditions were reconstructed from annual baptism and burial records of St Mary's Church, which provide numbers of births and deaths for 1637–1841; earlier records were destroyed in the city fire of 1637. A deaths-to-births ratio was calculated as measure of excess mortality. Reports of city fires, food-supply crises and disease outbreaks were additionally extracted from local chronicles. Historical flood and drought events were compiled from published datasets and chronicles covering the Mulde sub-catchment, the German reaches of the Elbe and other Elbe tributaries. These records were collected to document socio-environmental conditions potentially relevant to the operation and maintenance of salmon-catching infrastructure and to longitudinal river connectivity.
Global identifier:
Doi(
"10.1594/PANGAEA.996459",
)
DataMeasurements(
DataMeasurements {
domain: Unspecified,
station: None,
measured_variables: [
"Birth/death ratio",
"Comment",
"Cost of grain, per bushel",
"Disease severity",
"Drought event",
"Event label",
"Fire event",
"Flood event",
"Ice presence",
"Identification",
"LATITUDE",
"LONGITUDE",
"Location",
"Number of births",
"Plague event",
"Reference/source",
"Replicate",
"River",
"Type",
"Year of observation",
],
methods: [],
},
)
Tags: Atlantischer Lachs ? Lachs ? Roggen ? Getreide ? Fluss ? Deutschland ? Elbe ? Geografische Koordinaten ? Dürre ? Mulde ? Gewässertyp ? Marktpreis ? Mortalität ? Umweltökonomie ? Umweltwirtschaft ? Daten ? Krankheit ? Stadt ? Bestattung ? Biodiversität ? Early- Modern Period ? Fluvial Anthroposphere ? Historical Ecology ? Socio-natural drivers ? historical records ?
Region: Leisnig Eilenburg, Saxony, Germany Düben, Germany Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Bounding boxes: 12.2430723° .. 12.9279° x 51.15743° .. 51.8309956°
License: Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 (Data access requires registration)
Language: Englisch/English
Modified: 2026-08-12
Last harvest: 13.08.2026 02:05
Time ranges: 1437-01-01 - 2012-01-01
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