Tag: Ostallgäu district
Ostallgäu district: 18-year-old steals tractor for a long joyride – Bavaria
An 18-year-old is said to have stolen a new tractor from the manufacturer’s yard in Ostallgäu, Bavaria, for a joyride several hundred kilometers long. According to police, the suspect said…
Ostallgäu: Speeding speeding at almost 250 km/h on the main road – Bavaria
A driver raced through a 100 zone on a federal highway near Germaringen (Ostallgäu district) at 248 kilometers per hour and was caught. The officers caught the speeder during a…
Bavaria: Husband critically injured by wife’s partner – Bavaria
A woman’s new partner is said to have attacked her 37-year-old husband with a knife during an argument in the Ostallgäu district, causing life-threatening injuries. The suspect, also 37 years…
Bavaria: The battle for water distribution is intensifying – Bavaria
The municipality of Nordhalben is rich in water, but cannot benefit from it. Instead, most of the valuable commodity flows to Erlangen and enables growth there. Now the town is…
Bavaria: Man fatally injured in Alpine foothills – Bavaria
A 31-year-old fell and died in the Tegelberg area in Schwangau (Ostallgäu district). On Friday, people reported a lifeless person below the cable car lift route, as the police announced…
Pfronten forest ropes course: Rope cut, climbing trainer seriously injured – Bavaria
A trainer in a forest ropes course in Pfronten (Ostallgäu district) was seriously injured because of a severed rope. Because unknown people had cut the rope around two meters above…
Neuschwanstein: Castle administration deliberately keeps visitor numbers low – Bavaria
Anyone who has booked a tour of the world-famous Neuschwanstein Castle in recent months has enjoyed unusual luxury: small groups of visitors. Instead of the previous 58 people, the size…
When mayors end up in court – eight cases from Bavaria – Bavaria
Five and a half years in prison for a Bavarian mayor was the recent verdict from the Nuremberg-Fürth regional court. It is not legally binding. But is the impression that…
Seeg im Allgäu: Five and a half years in prison for the CSU mayor – and now? – Bavaria
Everything on the Internet is still the same. Under the heading “Mayor” on the Seeg municipality’s homepage, CSU man Markus Berktold smiles at the visitor, who is not only the…
Act of violence near Neuschwanstein: murder charges in court in February – Bavaria
After the violent crime against two US tourists near Neuschwanstein Castle, a 31-year-old must answer for murder and attempted murder in the Kempten regional court from February 19th. As a…