Falkenstein Castle has stood on a hilltop above the Inn Valley near Flintsbach for many hundreds of years. It has been a ruin since the end of the 18th century, but a few years ago the district of Rosenheim had it secured, renovated and made more accessible for walkers. Now the water has undone some of this work. The heavy rain that fell from Monday afternoon in southern Upper Bavaria over parts of the districts of Rosenheim, Miesbach and Traunstein caused a landslide at the castle, and several meters of the castle wall also fell down the slope with the earth. Below it in Flintsbach, around 50 people had to leave their homes as a precaution. A similar fate awaited several hundred people in several places in the region, such as Raubling and Rohrdorf.
Long-distance traffic was also severely affected by the heavy rain, which hit the ground that was already completely saturated with water. The Inntal triangle near Rosenheim, which connects the A8 from Munich towards Salzburg and the A93 towards Tyrol, was closed all night into Tuesday due to flooding. Numerous smaller roads were also impassable. The Leitzach valley in the Miesbach district remained completely inaccessible to normal traffic well into Tuesday. The control center in Rosenheim recorded a total of around 1,750 individual operations for fire brigades and rescue services – more than at any time since the floods of 2013.
But as quickly as the water had come, the levels of the streams and rivers in the region fell again. The situation continued to ease over the course of Tuesday, and around midday the district of Rosenheim lifted the state of emergency declared the previous evening. Almost everyone was able to return to their homes, among the last were the residents of a Raubling asylum seekers’ accommodation, who had had to spend the night in the community hall. At the same time, the fire brigades were still busy pumping out hundreds of flooded cellars in several places. In Raubling alone, there was still water in around 300 cellars on Tuesday afternoon.