masses of Snow in the Alps to block the road, rail and air traffic. For departing tourists to come in some Austrian ski resorts are hardly a By. In the Alps there are also the Dead.
Munich/Vienna – Heavy snow has rails on the weekend, especially in the South of Bavaria and in Austria, as well as road and air traffic affected. Many holiday makers stayed on the way back from the Christmas holiday are stuck.
thousands of tourists were temporarily Tauern in the Austrian ski resorts of upper and Saalbach-Hinterglemm included. The access roads were blocked because of the risk of Avalanches was too high. For avalanche blasting has been locked in addition, the tourist traffic, the important Tauern motorway.
In the whole of the German Alpine region was on Sunday, the second-highest avalanche warning level. Snow spilled on Saturday in the Chiemgau Alps, a 20-year-old tour skier. The woman from the Berchtesgadener Land was completely buried and died. Their five companions were captured by the snow Board.
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In the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, a German came on Sunday when an avalanche claimed the lives of. The exact origin of the 1992-born man remained initially unclear.
In a cell on a lake and was rescued by a German Snowboarder after a night in the open on Sunday unharmed. He had stayed in a self-built snow cave under a tree, reported the 23-Year-old from Würzburg to the rescuers. Prior to that, he had missed due to poor visibility involuntarily the slopes and was always more in rough terrain.
While the Situation at Munich airport, we relaxed on Sunday, reported the Deutsche Bahn, a number of road closures. On the streets, there were many accidents – not only in and to the Alps in Bavaria and Austria, but also in the black forest.
snow in Bavaria: 19-Year-old accident dies in car, train strong
upper Bavaria affected died, a 19-Year-old in a car collision on a snow-slippery road* close to Bad Tölz. Four other people were injured in the accident, two of them seriously. In the vicinity of lake Chiemsee on the A8 motorway at Siegsdorf has been blocked temporarily because of the trees sticking up under the snow load on the roadway. In Munich, the line of buses that were stuck were made by the fire brigade again.
Munich airport, clearing of snow and ice were employed in the three king weekend, almost uninterruptedly, in order, the Start and to rid runways of the snow masses. For Sunday, only a few cancellations were expected on Saturday there were about 130.
rail passengers needed especially in Bavaria a lot of patience: a heavy snowfall hampered the movement of trains mainly to the South and to the West of Munich. A number of Compounds in the Allgäu region and, for example, in the direction of Garmisch-Partenkirchen were until further notice. Due to the heavy snow load of trees fell in the tracks and overhead lines.
a blessing in disguise, had around 300 passengers, the overnight train collided to Zurich in the heart of Kitzbühel in Austria with a fallen tree. After four hours on the open road, the wagons were towed in a train station, where the uninjured passengers were provided with hot drinks.
snow in Austria: ski resort of Saalbach-Hinterglemm cut off partially from the outside world
In the Austrian Saalbach-Hinterglemm have, at times, included about 12 000 winter sports enthusiasts. Around 50 percent of the tourists come here from Germany. You are not in danger, calmed mayor Alois Hasenauer. “We are supplied in a good place,” he told the German press Agency.
Under the weight of the snow collapsed trees caused in Austria and also power outages. In Tirol, the authorities warned because of the risk of tree topple in front of hikes and walks in the forest.
On Sunday, held in the Alpine region the strong snowfall first, already in the days before widespread had fallen more than a Meter of new snow. The experts expected for the next few days, but a slight relaxation of the Avalanche, when the snow sets in.
The new week starts, the prediction is that in Germany, mostly covered, and particularly in the Eastern half of the area with rain or drizzle. In the South and in the Eastern uplands it’s supposed to snow up in deep layers, such as the German weather service (DWD) reported. In the Alps, the intensity of the snowfall from the take. For the West and North-West of Germany, the DWD expected often dry weather. In the course of Monday afternoon, however, is expected from the North sea with the new rain.
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