After a storm

Cut-off village soon accessible again

The Innerkremser Landesstraße has been completely destroyed.(Bild: zvg)

The badly damaged Innerkrems provincial road should be open to traffic sooner than planned! 

It is now a week since a violent storm front swept over the Carinthian municipality of Krems and flood-like masses of water devastated the Innerkrems road and the village of Kremsbrücke. The town is still scarred by the damage. The clean-up work is in full swing - especially along Innerkremser Straße. As reported, there are up to 30 damaged areas on this road. In some places, there is nothing left of the road surface. The authorities even feared that the road could be closed for months.

But now the people of Innerkrems in particular, who can currently only be reached from Salzburg, can breathe a sigh of relief! Martin Gruber, the state's vice president, has now announced that the L19 should be open to traffic again in just three weeks. "The aim is to make the road provisionally passable within this time."

Above all, this should also save tourism, which locals are trying to boost with alternative offers. After all, it is still uncertain whether the lift in Innerkrems will ever be put back into operation.