The storm in Wolfratshausen in summer left a trail of devastation.
It is now clear: the property damage amounts to a good 150 million euros.
Wolfratshausen - On the evening of June 21, deep black clouds came over Wolfratshausen *.
First lumps of hage the size of golf balls crashed from the sky for several minutes, followed by torrential rain.
The storm caused immense damage in the region *, which even three months after the momentous event cannot be precisely quantified.
However, if you add up the individual reports from various motor insurers, you quickly reach the 150 million euro mark.
One car owner in Wolfratshausen, Geretsried and the surrounding area got away with a black eye that night, that is, with a few dents in the vehicle sheet metal.
After the devastating hailstorm, others learned the painful diagnosis from the car appraiser they trusted: It was an economic total loss.
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In order to be able to repair what could still be repaired, the service provider "Carglass" in Geretsried brought together employees from all over Germany *.
The neighboring rafting town became a Mecca for motor vehicle experts.
Since the beginning of July, for example, experts have been examining around 1,100 cars on behalf of Württembergische Versicherung in Wolfratshausen, reports press spokeswoman Dörte Lochner when asked by our newspaper.
The amount of damage determined up to September 24th “is between 500 and 40,000 euros per vehicle,” said Lochner.
"As a rule, we do not determine the total damage per assessment."
The HUK-Coburg also sent experts to Wolfratshausen three months ago and to other regions in southern Germany that were severely affected by hailstorms.
In total, the HUK currently has around 37,000 reports of damaged vehicles, says press spokeswoman Karin Benning.
The preliminary damage amount: "Well over 100 million euros."
Hail damage in Wolfratshausen: "That is already a house number"
Also at the beginning of July, the Ulm hail damage center set up three locations in Wolfratshausen.
Since then, more than a dozen experts from various motor vehicle insurance companies have examined dented bonnets and roofs as well as cracked or splintered front and rear windows.
Not to forget: car electronics that have been flooded, so to speak.
"It should have been around 18,000 to 22,000 cars so far," sums up project manager Sven Werkmeister.
"That is quite a number," says foreman, who has worked for the Ulm company for ten years, with a view to the total number of damaged cars. In the industry, there is talk of "over 50,000 cars in Wolfratshausen and the surrounding area".
The damage that was recorded by the experts in the three centers in Wolfratshausen, according to the foreman, ranges from 800 to a good 25,000 euros.
“On average it was 3,500 to 4,000 euros per vehicle.” And: “Unfortunately, there were also a lot of total losses.” The dents in the sheet metal bodies were five to ten centimeters in diameter, explains Werkmeister.
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The project manager remembers a car from Berg (Starnberg district *) on which the lumps of ice had left significantly smaller dents: “There were more than 1000 pieces in total.” The technical team at the hail damage center is currently struggling with delivery bottlenecks.
"The procurement of spare parts is a huge disaster," says Werkmeister.
Electronic components in particular are in short supply, but many body panels are also difficult to obtain.
The bonnet of a certain Audi model “is no longer available at the moment”.
Werkmeister assumes that the hail damage center will only break down its tents in Wolfratshausen at the end of October / mid-November.
The particularly difficult cases, which up to then could not be helped back on their tires, "we take with us to Ulm".
The appraisers and dent specialists will probably not run out of work anytime soon.
On the contrary: The general manager of the General Association of the German Insurance Industry, Jörg Asmussen, warns: You have to be prepared for the fact that the "frequency and intensity" of natural events such as storms with hail and heavy rain * will increase.
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