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Floods at Stuttgart Central Station
Photo: Andreas Rosar / dpa
On the night of Sunday there were several severe thunderstorms in southern Germany, especially south of the Danube, it rained sometimes heavily.
After heavy rains, parts of downtown Stuttgart were flooded.
A spokesman for the police said the water could not drain because of a blocked gully.
As a result, the Schillerstrasse near the main train station was under water.
The road has been temporarily closed.
In several communities in the Heilbronn district, according to the police, trees buckled on Sunday night, cellars overflowed and streets were flooded.
In the Ludwigsburg district, several streets were flooded and manhole covers were lifted.
In addition, a car got stuck in a flooded street, the water was half a meter high.
The occupants climbed onto the roof of the car and were released by the fire brigade.
On Sunday there could be strong thunderstorms again, said a spokeswoman for the German Weather Service.
"The air is very humid and warm, so it can boil." However, the prospects have so far been normal for a summer's day;
Storms caused severe damage in Belgium.
In the southern Belgian city of Dinant on the Meuse, roads were damaged, cars torn away and numerous houses flooded on Saturday.
The material damage is "significant," said Mayor Axel Tixhon, according to the Belga news agency.
"It was short but extremely heavy," Tixhon said.
"Real torrents" rushed down the streets.
Four people had to leave their homes as a precaution.
According to the national crisis center, no injuries were reported by Saturday evening.
The situation in the affected province of Namur has stabilized again after the storms subsided.
In eleven cities in the Meuse valley, there had been heavy rain and floods early on Saturday evening.
Images of streets turning into torrents were circulating in online networks.
According to the national crisis center, the situation is not comparable to the floods of July 14th and 15th.
After days of heavy rain, the densely populated valleys of the Meuse region in the three-country corner of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands were flooded a week and a half ago.
The province of Liège was particularly hard hit.
36 people died, seven are still missing, as the crisis center announced.
kha / dpa / AFP