Hamburg. Hail and heavy rain in the east of the city. Tree falls on car with passengers inside. In Mümmelmannsberg, underground car parks are flooded up to the ceiling.
Every now and then the Möllner Landstrasse in Hamburg-Billstedt, when a storm passes over the east of the city. In May 2022, for example, the street was under water, knee-deep, in May 2018 it looked similar, and the street a few meters further, in Oststeinbek, was hit particularly badly in July 2016. A storm turned it into a river.
For a short time on Wednesday afternoon, after extremely heavy rainfall, enormous masses of water once again flooded the Möllner Landstrasse. So much rain fell on the asphalt in a short space of time that the sewage system could no longer absorb the water – it even bubbled up from the drains. Cars had some difficulty making their way through the floodwaters, which then receded quite quickly.
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According to the fire department and witnesses on site, there was no major damage. However, the road is particularly well protected from Heavy rain events protected: There are huge tanks under the Hein-Klink Stadium into which water is fed in a controlled manner after heavy rain, which can then seep away. This is intended to protect the entire district from severe flooding caused by such extreme weather events.
A heavy thunderstorm passed over Hamburg on Wednesday. It was accompanied by heavy rain and hail. Möllner Landstrasse was briefly under water because the sewer system could no longer absorb the precipitation.
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The German Weather Service (DWD) had previously issued an official warning for Hamburg about strong thunderstorms approaching from the southwest. Gusts of wind with speeds of around 65 km/h and heavy rain with rainfall amounts of around 25 litres per square meter per hour are to be expected. The warning is valid for the north and east of the city until 8 p.m. It has already been lifted for the western districts such as Altona and Eimsbüttel.
Tree falls on car: Fire brigade has to rescue trapped passengers
While the storm hit Billstedt with great force, other parts of the city were spared – or rather, initially spared. At around 4:30 p.m., the fire brigade only counted three weather-related operations. On Ballindamm, for example, some stones had apparently come loose from a brick facade. There was also a smaller operation on Barsbütteler Weg, as a fire brigade spokesman confirmed to the Abendblatt upon request.
Flooding in Billstedt. A man walks through a construction site in rubber boots.
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At around 5 p.m. the sky darkened. While in the city and in the west of the city there was mainly a rumbling and rumbling and the rain was kept to a minimum, in the east of Hamburg things really got going. The number of operations shot up so suddenly and so dramatically that the fire service had to declare a state of emergency. At around 9.30 p.m. it was reported that a total of around 600 operations had been carried out and were being dealt with one by one. “It went up very quickly, very steeply,” the spokesman told the Abendblatt.
Firefighters are clearing away a tree that fell onto Archenholzstrasse during the storm. A bus on route 432 was unable to pass the spot for more than an hour.
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The northern and eastern parts of the city are still affected, especially the area from Billstedt to Bergedorf. Flooded streets or flooded cellars are the main problems. A tree fell on a car on Bergedorfer Strasse. Two people were rescued by firefighters.
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The occupants were uninjured, but were transported to a hospital by ambulance as a precaution, the spokesman said.
The situation was particularly bad in the Mümmelmannsberg high-rise housing estate. The fire department said that some of the basements and underground car parks there were almost flooded to the ceiling. Whole streets were temporarily flooded.
Water masses undermine house in Billstedt – evacuation
The situation also became dramatic late on Wednesday evening in Billstedt on Steinberger Hauptstrasse and An der Glinder Au: there the floods had probably washed away an apartment building. 16 people had to be rescued from the building by the fire brigade. A road bridge and a nearby garage were also damaged by the water masses, said a fire brigade spokesman. Fortunately, no one in the building was injured.
In Hamburg-Billstedt, a house was probably washed away. The fire brigade evacuated it as a precaution.
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