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Winterberg (dpa / lnw) - The city of Winterberg in the Sauerland appealed to day trippers for the third day in a row not to come.

"Please consider whether you really need to travel there," wrote the popular winter sports resort on Tuesday morning on its website.

"Due to the high demand, traffic jams lasting for kilometers are to be expected."

When visiting the site, those interested are greeted with the words “Continue to pause.

We remain on standby »greeted.

The imperative of the day is avoidance of contact.

«We love our mountains.

You too.

But in these times we have to let this love rest, because the rush leads to traffic jams and crowds, ”the city continued.

«Congested streets, lack of parking spaces and lots of potential contacts.

Who wants that!

Don't do that to yourself. "

The city pointed out that there were no places to stop or warm up.

In the city center only the public toilets are open.

Numerous day-trippers had already caused traffic chaos on Sunday and Monday with overcrowded parking lots and kilometers of traffic jams around the city of 13,000 inhabitants.

There were many families among the visitors who came to go sledding.

On Tuesday afternoon, the city wanted to introduce measures against the traffic chaos, which should take effect from Wednesday.

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