The first holiday weekend in Bavaria was exceptionally quiet: the motorways were largely empty and there were few traffic jams at the borders.
The ADAC attributes the low tourist traffic to the "unclear situation and the corona restrictions".
Munich
- The desire for long-distance travel was clearly slowed at the beginning of the holiday: At the border crossings Kiefersfelden / Kuftstein and at Bad Reichenhall it remained quiet.
Only on the A 8 at Walserberg there were short traffic jams in the direction of Austria at the weekend, with waiting times of up to 30 minutes.
According to witnesses, it was mostly Slovenes, Croats and Serbs who wanted to go home over Easter.
Among them were mobile homes with the holiday destination Croatia.
Passengers in transit waved the Austrian border guards through.
But if you can't prove transit, you have to turn around at the border inspection post.
"Because of this, 40 vehicles were turned back on the Walserberg from Friday to Sunday," said a police spokesman in Salzburg.
Entry into Austria for a short vacation is not permitted, and shopping tours are not possible.
The Robert Koch Institute announced on Friday that it would remove the Austrian state and the Czech Republic from its list of virus variant areas with effect from Sunday.
This eliminates the basis for some of the most recently applicable entry restrictions.
The stationary controls at the borders with Austria and the Czech Republic will remain in place for the time being.
Several Bavarian mayors and the president of the Tyrolean state parliament have called for the future waiver of "strict border measures between Tyrol and Bavaria" in an open letter.
In the letter to Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (both CSU), they emphasized that the regulations issued because of the Corona crisis were "a huge burden for our border region and beyond".
In addition to the President of the Tyrolean Parliament, the mayors of Mittenwald, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Füssen and Pfronten signed.
It remained quiet on the Brenner motorway all the way down to Modena.
In Italy there is a lockdown over Easter with incidences around 250.
When returning, a corona test and quarantine are mandatory.
All of this is a huge deterrent.
On the other hand, there was as much going on at Munich Airport as it has not been for a long time: 150 planes take off here in the Easter holidays for Mallorca, currently the incidence in the Balearic Islands is 28.71.
Most of the day trippers within Bavaria behaved cautiously: "It's exceptionally quiet," said a spokesman for the Rosenheim police headquarters on Sunday.
But of course there were parking offenders again at the most popular excursion destinations: At Walchensee in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district, Frank Benz, deputy head of the Kochel Police Department, issued around 40 parking tickets on Sunday.
"It will be like last year, people park in the nature reserve, in the no-stopping area and in front of driveways," he predicted angrily and appealed to day trippers to find legal parking spaces - even if they then have to walk a few meters further.