Bomb alarm in Osnabrück: 20,000 evacuated and massive train delays!

Bomb alarm in Osnabrück: 20,000 evacuated and massive train delays!

In the past few days, rail traffic in Germany was again affected by major disorders that resulted from exceptional circumstances. Among other things, there was a bomb defusion in Osnabrück, which had a massive impact on regional and long-distance traffic. According to ZDF today reported. From around 4.30 p.m. there were significant diversions, and the defusing itself was completed at around 9 p.m.

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The disorders in Osnabrück are not the only incidents that have affected rail traffic in the past few days. Bank fires in Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt also led to problems in train operation. According to reports, the strongest disabilities in regional traffic in western Germany are expected on Wednesday because the temperatures increase. Companies such as Eurobahn and Nationale Express have already displayed delays. Incidentally, the same problems also occurred two weeks ago when a 500-kilogram bomb was defused in the same area, which led to the evacuation of 11,000 people. Such bomb finds are not new because the areas around the larger cities were heavily bombarded.

The incidents in Osnabrück not only affected travelers, but also prominent personalities, such as the climate activist Luisa Neubauer, who had to accept delays on her trip from Berlin to Hamburg. In view of the numerous disorders that have now been resolved, the temperatures and other major events, such as the bombing, only appear as one of the challenges for travelers who want to rely on the train on Wednesday.

Cologne in focus of attention

But Cologne was not spared the difficulties either: This week the largest evacuation campaign has been held in the city since the Second World War. Three unexploded goers, including two 20-centers bombs and a 10-center bomb, had to be defused in the Deutz district. Over 20,000 people had to leave their apartments in the 1,000-meter area around the site. These measures ensured that the central Cologne train station and also the Hohenzollernbrücke, the most busy railway bridge in Germany, were temporarily closed. Traffic disruptions were also forced here by the line trauma, such as nw.de reported.

Due to such historical conditions, the bombing in Cologne and Osnabrück has once again moved the importance of the topic of technology and environmental design in modern urban planning. Here, too, it becomes clear how closely measures of the past are linked to today's life.