57 liters of rain per square meter in half an hour: In Landshut, the entire city center was under water at the start of the Germany game.
The city speaks of an event of the century.
Munich / Landshut - When the rain came, Peter Stix and his employees from the Tafernwirtschaft of the Hotel Schönbrunn in Landshut tried to make the beer garden weatherproof. “The umbrellas were still open. We had no more chance. Everything flew, there was a pounding - you can't even imagine. ”Half an hour later, the beer garden, parking lot and the cellar were under water.
“Tuesday is our delivery day,” says Stix a few hours after the storm, while the fire brigade is still pumping the water out of the cellar behind him.
There were fresh goods on the shelves.
“It's all broken and has to be thrown in the bin,” says the landlord.
The restaurant is closed for the time being.
He had to cancel the wedding and birthday parties on the weekend - just now, when people are crowding into the dining rooms again after the lockdown.
"It's just sad."
Storm in Bavaria: Landshut hit particularly hard - torrents instead of roads
With the heavy storms just in time for the start of the European Championship soccer game of the German national team on Tuesday evening, major damage again occurred in some parts of Bavaria. Landshut was hit hardest. Half an hour of storm and heavy rain was enough to devastate large parts of the city. "Within minutes, streets have turned into raging streams," says fire department spokesman Dominik Zehatschek on the day after the storm. The city speaks of a "centenary event". Within just half an hour, 57 liters of precipitation per square meter had fallen.
"We had torrents where there are otherwise roads," says Landshut's Lord Mayor Alexander Putz.
He speaks of a "flash flood disaster" that his city has never seen before.
Putz himself waded through the mud in the city center shortly after the heavy rain.
He won't forget the smell anytime soon.
“Like when the tide recedes and you walk through the mudflats.
It was just silt and mud.
In the middle of the city.
Inconceivably."
Storm in Bavaria: Cars are swept away - fire brigade must free occupants
Huge masses of water have come down the slopes around the city. According to the fire department, the floods tore cars with it, washed away streets and washed tons of mud onto the streets and into the houses. Some people have been trapped in water in their cars. With the help of the fire brigade, they climbed out through the car windows. Rescue workers and residents toiled through the night and into the next day, clearing the streets and houses of water and mud. As far as Freising, emergency services rushed to Landshut to control the masses of water. Yesterday afternoon the city fire chief estimated that the fire brigade in and around Landshut had to be deployed for around 800 missions.
The storms also resulted in numerous missions outside of Landshut. At Grafrath in the Fürstenfeldbruck district, an S-Bahn with around 100 passengers had to be evacuated because a poplar tree was supported by the overhead line. Lightning struck the A99 near Oberschleißheim in the Munich district and tore a fist-sized hole in the road surface. As a result, the electronics of one truck and one car failed. In the Blombergbahn, two couples had to wait around 45 minutes in the double chairlift because it had to stop because of the storm. In a short gap in the wind, they could finally be brought back into the valley.
According to the meteorologist Uwe Schickedanz, the thunderstorms of the past few days are a result of climate change. The head of the German Weather Service told the “Südkurier” that the storms fit into the picture that climate researchers draw, with summer alternation between drought and heavy rain events. The Landtag Greens therefore demand that the Free State must better support the municipalities in recording the risk of flash floods.
(dg / lby / mbe / st / va)