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Snowed in ICE in Hanover: Rail traffic remains restricted
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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 and Saxony-Anhalt 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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Motorway police on the A30 in Lower Saxony
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Problems were expected again for road and rail traffic.
"Snow and ice will affect DB's local and long-distance traffic in large parts of the country on Monday," said Deutsche Bahn.
Travelers were asked to »use the numerous information channels of the DB to find out about their connection before starting their journey«.
Scheuer advises people to stay at home
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.
A game in the Bundesliga had to be canceled.
The consequences of the onset of winter in detail:
The heavy snowstorm 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.
On Sunday evening, trucks got stuck in the snow in front of a hill
on
Autobahn 6 near Nuremberg
.
A total of 150 trucks came to a stop between the Roth junction and the Nürnberg-Süd motorway junction, the police said.
The technical relief organization had to free some of the vehicles.
A backwater formed because the lanes in the direction of Amberg were temporarily blocked.
Also on the
Autobahn 4 near Gera
in Thuringia, rows of trucks got stuck in snow drifts on Monday night.
In the right lane in the direction of Frankfurt am Main, a kilometer-long traffic jam formed, as the police announced.
Towing services and clearing vehicles had to free the trucks.
The traffic could continue to flow in the remaining lanes.
A train with around 25 passengers is stranded in the
Hundertwasser train station in
Uelzen,
Lower Saxony
.
Rescue workers of the German Red Cross (DRK) arrived late on Sunday evening to provide the passengers with blankets, hot drinks and a soup.
A DRK spokesman said on-site that you will be deployed until early Monday morning.
The passengers would probably have to spend the night on the train, it said.
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 snow masses, as a fire department spokesman said.
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 houses directly on the Rhine had been cut off from the outside world by the snowdrifts.
Clearance vehicles got stuck in the snowdrifts, some 1.50 meters high, the police said.
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 situation briefing on Sunday at "Bild live" that one could not guarantee that the rail traffic would be up and running again on Monday.
Deep »Tristan« over Central Europe and the Central Mediterranean, in conjunction with Hoch »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.
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