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The storm "Klaus" swept across the north and northwest of Germany in particular and caused numerous disruptions in rail traffic there.
Several routes were affected on Thursday evening, two of which were blocked, as the railway announced.
There were train cancellations and delays.
Nothing at all went on Thursday evening on the routes between Dortmund and Münster (objects in the overhead line) and between Oldenburg and Leer (overhead line fault).
The latter blockage will also affect IC long-distance traffic on the route from Norddeich Mole via Emden, Bremen and Hanover to Dresden - probably by Friday morning.
Regional express 1 between Hanover and Leer is also affected.
There is a replacement bus service here.
In Bremen-Nord the power supply failed over a large area after a tree fell on a substation.
According to the railway, there were also impairments on seven lines in regional traffic in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg.
Reasons here were trees or objects on the tracks and overhead lines or switch faults.
Here there are delays of up to an hour, an emergency bus service cannot be guaranteed due to the weather conditions.
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Because of two tangled cranes in Rhineland-Palatinate, a federal road and a railway line in the Trier-Saarburg district were temporarily closed.
In the early afternoon on a construction site in Nittel, the pulling rope of one crane got caught in the wind in the boom of the other crane, the police said.
The cranes, which were about 50 meters apart, were then at right angles to each other, and it could not be ruled out that they could topple over in the face of reported gusts of wind.
With the help of a special crane, the rope could finally be removed from the second crane.
The road and the railway line were closed for around two and a half hours.
According to the police, there was no personal injury or property damage.
In Krefeld, the fire brigade had to clear a tree from an overhead tram line.
Between Troisdorf and Bonn-Beuel, too, an overhead line disruption impaired train traffic.
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According to the German Weather Service (DWD), “Klaus” was felt most strongly in the German Bight, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein.
In Schleswig-Holstein there were gusts of up to 110 kilometers per hour, in exposed places such as the lighthouse Kiel (128 kilometers per hour) and the Brocken in the Harz Mountains (134 kilometers per hour) the wind was therefore even more violent.
The fire brigade had to take care of numerous fallen trees and loose parts of the building.
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In Bielefeld, an uprooted tree put a driver in danger.
The 23-year-old noticed the obstacle too late on Friday night and got under the tree with his car, the police said.
He was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
In downtown Düsseldorf, a church tower cross loosened - presumably due to the storm.
According to the fire brigade, there was a risk of it falling.
In downtown Essen, a passer-by was hit in the head by a falling roof tile during a storm.
On Friday gusts at speeds of 60 to 75 kilometers per hour are to be expected in Bavaria, said the DWD.
In the low mountain range as well as in the Alps, heavy and gale-force gusts of up to 110 kilometers per hour are possible.
It remains mostly wet, and the sun rarely fights its way through the cloud cover.
According to the DWD, it will also be windy and rainy on the weekend.
On Saturday, a new storm low with rain is approaching, which then occurs more in the middle and in the south of Germany.
Temperatures can reach ten degrees.
Frequent rain showers and stormy gusts of wind are also forecast for Sunday, which will subside towards evening.