Police and fire departments were in continuous use in the region. Particularly affected were Laaber and Painten.
Heavy thunderstorms hit the region on Thursday evening. The German Weather Service warned of severe weather (4 of 4). And even on Friday morning, the storm is expected to continue in a weakened form.
In Laaber stood on the night of Friday the marketplace 50 to 60 inches high under water. The site management spoke of 20 deployment sites, in the neighboring houses numerous basements had to be pumped out. In Frauenberg also several streets were under water, about 15 basements had to be pumped out.
The fire brigade also had to cope with a large-scale operation in Painten (Kelheim district). In the district Maierhofen streets were 50 centimeters high under water, about 20 cellars had to be pumped out. A total of 150 firefighters were on duty, including the fire brigades from Kelheim, Essing, Painten, Langquaid and Buch. District Administrator Martin Neumeyer was also there. According to Einsatzleiter Wolfgang Kargl, the mission will probably last throughout the night.
Heavy rain leads to traffic accidents
Particularly affected was the northern Upper Palatinate. In the district of Tirschenreuth several cellars ran full, streets were flooded. In Neustadt / Waldnaab burned after lightning strikes two woodpile and a hedge.
At Kümmersbruck in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach a tree fell on a power line and caught fire. The motorway exit Amberg-West had to be closed due to flooding. On the A6 at Schwandorf there were two aquaplaning accidents, but in which nobody was injured.
Also because of the heavy rain crashed a car on the A3 between the junctions Nittendorf and Laaber against the guardrail. Fortunately nobody was injured here either.
Mudslides in Upper Franconia
Heavy rain and thunderstorms have caused in the night on Friday in large parts of Bavaria for full-blown cellars and closed roads. In Upper Franconia, several mudslides dissolved and slipped on police after streets. Parts of a county road had been washed away. Alone in the district of Wunsiedel more than 350 firefighters were in action.
In northern Upper Bavaria, the police had dislocated 42 weather-related missions, a spokesman said in the early morning: basements were full of water and underpasses had to be closed because of flooding. In the Upper Palatinate, police said that fallen trees blocked several streets. In northern Swabia, smaller streets were closed. In the other regions of the Free State, it also rained violently, but no major damage was known.
Fallen bricks obstruct Oberpfalzbahn
The rail traffic was hardly restricted by the storm, as a spokesman said. Since Thursday evening, however, the route of the private Oberpfalzbahn at Marktredwitz (district of Wunsiedel) was closed because of fallen trees. In the Swabian district of Donau-Ries regional traffic was stopped at Otting-Weilheim until early Friday morning, because the heavy rain had flooded the track bed.
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