Late Monday night, Germany was hit by thunderstorms and torrential rain in the south and west of the country, leading to dozens of accidents and hundreds of firefighters overnight.
In Bavaria, some villages were flooded, including Mömlingen, near Frankfurt, where the streets were completely covered with water and mud, many basements were flooded, the German news agency DPA reported on Tuesday.
In Stuttgart, parts of the roof and several statues of the city opera house were blown to the ground. “I’m standing under the roof and very wet,” opera director Victor Schoner told dpa late Monday.
According to him, some parts of the stage were flooded when water spilled inside along the lighting installation. When the storm hit the storm, about 250 people were present at the show, but no one was injured, according to dpa.
In Stuttgart as a whole, rescue teams were called to Stuttgart on Monday and early Tuesday mornings more than 330 times, and train traffic was interrupted for several hours. The fallen trees had to be cut down and taken out by firefighters.
The states of Baden-Württemberg, where Stuttgart is located, as well as Bavaria and Hessen, were particularly hard hit by flood-like rains, and dozens of traffic accidents were reported by early Tuesday morning. The number of people affected by the accidents was not immediately known.
Seven accidents were reported on the A3 and A48 motorways near the city of Montabaur, in which one person was seriously injured and three people were slightly injured.