Germany is currently struggling with extreme cold.
The disaster in Jena has now been lifted.
The train continues to be delayed.
Heavy snowfall and extreme cold have caused traffic chaos * in Germany in recent days.
In Jena, a disaster was declared due to the interruption of a district heating pipe.
(see first report)
At Deutsche Bahn, there are still restrictions due to the weather.
(see update from February 11, 12.55 p.m.)
Update from February 11, 12.55 p.m.:
After a defective district heating
pipe was
repaired, the disaster in Jena has been lifted again.
The municipal utilities assumed that normal operation would be secured again after the repair, the city administration justified the step on Thursday.
"The cause of the accident was a crack in the weld," said a spokesman for the public utility company.
Extreme cold in Germany: Rail continues with restrictions - "95 percent of the network can be used again"
After the massive restrictions in long-distance and regional transport by Deutsche Bahn, trains are now rolling again in many places.
"Around 95 percent of the route network can be used again - but often with restrictions and sometimes long delays," said the railway on Thursday.
Snow, icy overhead lines and temperatures of up to minus 26 degrees continue to make clearing and repair work more difficult.
"Currently there are still major restrictions regionally in the Harz-Weser network and in Thuringia," said Deutsche Bahn in its press portal.
On the east-west connections there is now a limited but stable offer again.
“There are also more trains running between north and south,” it said.
Extreme cold in Germany: Disaster in Jena - 6,500 households without heating overnight
First report from February 11th:
Jena - In the past few days the heavy snowfall and the cold in Germany caused traffic chaos.
Miles of traffic jams formed on the autobahn, and there were numerous cancellations and delays at Deutsche Bahn.
On Thursday night, drivers no longer had to accept major disabilities due to the weather *, despite the freezing cold.
In Jena, however, the icy temperatures caused a disaster.
Around 6,500 households in the city in Thuringia had to get along without heating and hot water after a district heating pipe was interrupted.
On Thursday morning, the municipal utilities reported that the district heating pipeline was back in operation.
An approximately five centimeter long crack in the line was successfully welded shut during the night.
On Wednesday, employees of the municipal utilities and specialist companies in Jena spent hours looking for the cause of the accident and also tore open a street.
In the meantime, residents have been asked to keep windows and doors closed to delay the cooling of their apartments.
Some citizens were referred to emergency shelters.
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In Jena, the municipal utilities and specialist companies were on duty at night to repair the interruption in a district heating pipe.
© Bodo Schackow / dpa
Extreme cold in Germany: there is no traffic chaos - "Finally no problems"
Elsewhere the situation remained calm during the night.
In the Bielefeld area, where cars and trucks on the A2 had jammed extremely in the past few nights, the traffic flowed largely without problems.
"It's more relaxed than the previous nights," said a police spokesman.
According to the police there, many trucks were still parked on the hard shoulder near Braunschweig because rest areas were full.
But there were no accidents.
A spokesman for the Göttingen motorway police said that “finally there are no problems”.
Weather in Germany: Rail is increasingly resuming long-distance traffic - "Coldspot" Thuringia
According to the railway, the most important north-south and east-west long-distance traffic connections were "mostly stable, albeit with significant delays" on Wednesday.
On Thursday, traffic from Dresden in the direction of Leipzig and Frankfurt should start again in the afternoon, as the train reported on its website.
Also between Hamburg and Kiel as well as Hamburg and Westerland there should be a "restricted offer" again.
It will also remain extremely cold in Germany in the coming days *.
According to the German Weather Service (DWD), the night on Wednesday was the coldest of the year so far.
"Above the deeply snow-covered middle and the east, it cooled down in areas to below minus 20 degrees," explained meteorologist Adrian Leyser.
"'Coldspot' was Thuringia with a minimum value of minus 26.7 degrees Celsius, measured in Mühlhausen."
(Ph / dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editorial network
