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After the violent onset of winter in many regions of Germany on the weekend, extreme weather should continue on Monday: The German Weather Service warned of heavy snowfalls with mostly ten to 25 centimeters of fresh snow in the first half of the day in central Germany.
Northeast Hesse
,
Thuringia
,
Saxony-Anhalt
and
Saxony
in particular should be affected
.
In other federal states, too, people continue to face restrictions due to the onset of winter.
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Efforts to fight the corona pandemic were also affected.
Thuringia closed all vaccination centers for Monday morning, as the Ministry of Health in Erfurt announced.
In the afternoon the situation should be reassessed.
Massive restrictions on mobility
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The onset of winter has also led to severe
restrictions in rail traffic
.
“Due to extreme storms”, train cancellations and delays are likely to occur in large parts of the country for the entire day, the railway announced in a warning on its website.
According to this, long-distance traffic is to be suspended “until further notice” in many places.
According to Bahn, the restrictions particularly affect the
Berlin
and
Hamburg
regions
, where almost no long-distance trains started on Monday.
Accordingly, the connections from both cities in the direction of Hanover, Cologne, Frankfurt and Munich remained suspended.
Also from
Dresden
“no long-distance trains will run in the direction of Leipzig, Frankfurt, Hanover and Cologne until further notice”, said the railway.
In addition, "long-distance traffic north of Frankfurt" is completely stopped.
In addition, air traffic was temporarily restricted in some regions.
Dortmund
Airport has
temporarily suspended flight operations due to icy runways.
A spokeswoman said the resumption of operations was scheduled for 1 p.m.
Machines with the destination Dortmund were diverted to Cologne-Bonn.
There and in Dusseldorf, flight operations ran in the morning without any disruptions.
30 centimeters of snow and meter-high drifts
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A heavy snowstorm caused traffic chaos in parts of Germany on Sunday.
In some places more than 30 centimeters of snow fell and there were meter-high drifts.
Police and fire brigade drove countless missions.
There were major restrictions on regional and long-distance rail services.
Bundesliga soccer games have been canceled.
In the early morning snowfall near Dresden, too, many people are stuck in traffic on the snowy Autobahn 4
Source: dpa / Robert Michael
In
Thuringia
, eight employees of a cleaning company were injured in an accident on an icy road.
As a spokesman for the police announced on Monday, the 49-year-old driver's minibus skidded on Sunday afternoon between Oettersdorf and Dittersdorf (both in the Saale-Orla district) due to slipperiness in a curve.
Thereupon the car came off the road, collided with the guardrail, overturned and hit the roof.
The driver and another five men and two women (all between the ages of 25 and 59) were injured.
They were taken to hospitals.
Snow in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The heavy onset of winter brought the clearance services
to their limits
in
North Rhine-Westphalia,
for
example
.
The police had to block highways as smooth as glass, there were hundreds of accidents, and trains were canceled due to iced overhead lines.
Cars got stuck in deep drifts of snow.
In
Göttingen
, the snowfall brought traffic on the A7 to an almost complete standstill.
On the night of Monday, trucks jammed on other motorways that could not move forward in the snow.
In the
Bielefeld
city center, the police found in the morning in a snow dead.
According to a spokesman for the city, the circumstances are currently still open.
It is therefore still unclear whether it is a medical emergency or whether the person froze to death in the storm.
The investigations of the colleagues on site have not yet been concluded.
Several cities and districts have stopped bus traffic in North Rhine-Westphalia - including
Essen
,
Recklinghausen
and
Dortmund
.
The buses will go back to the depots, as the Ruhrbahn announced on Monday morning on Twitter.
The weather conditions do not allow safe regular services.
There were also no buses in the Recklinghausen district on Monday morning.
The Vestische trams said that operations could not resume until noon at the earliest.
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“Our buses stay in the depot,” said the Dortmund public utility company on Twitter.
The light rail lines should run at least on parts of the route.
"Then let's see what the weather does to us," it said.
Tram derailed in Braunschweig
In
Braunschweig,
the fire brigade hid a tram car that had jumped off the rails due to the snow.
The wagon belonged to a special vehicle with a snow plow, with which the transport company was actually on the way to free rails from the masses of snow, as a fire department spokesman said on Sunday.
Rescue workers lifted the car, which weighed tons, back into the track with a truck crane.
According to the fire brigade, snow drifts with a height of up to 70 centimeters piled up in the Braunschweig urban area.
The fire brigade had to move
in
Duisburg
because five had been cut off from the outside world by the snowdrifts directly on the Rhine.
Clearance vehicles got stuck in the snowdrifts, some 1.50 meters high, the police said.
Stuck trucks blocked
several motorways
in the north and east of
Hesse
.
"The situation is catastrophic," said a police spokesman in Fulda early on Monday morning.
In many areas, the trucks and cars have been stuck in traffic for six hours and there is no forward or backward movement.
The A7 and A4 are particularly affected.
"Everything around the Kirchheim triangle is tight," said the spokesman.
Truck drivers should no longer use the motorways.
It is not yet clear when the lanes will be clear again.
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Trucks were parked across in the north of Hesse.
A spokesman for the Kassel police said it was tight on Autobahn 7 between Lutterberg and Homberg.
The clearance vehicles would hardly get through.
Scheuer: Better to stay at home
Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) advised those affected by the snow chaos in Germany to stay at home at the beginning of the week.
Scheuer said after a briefing on Sunday at "Bild live" that one could not guarantee that the rail traffic would be up and running again on Monday.
Low "Tristan" over Central Europe and the Central Mediterranean, in combination with high "Gisela" over Scandinavia, brings more icy air.
"After the snowy and windy weekend, the great cold is coming from the east," said meteorologist Simon Trippler from the DWD on Sunday.
Snow must still be expected, but it does not fall as intensely as on the weekend.
On Tuesday, the snowfall will mostly subside, except on the coast.