Horticulture insurance: damage caused by storm series

According to the Insurance horticultural severe storms in the past week have resulted in Germany and in horticulture to some considerable damage.

Initial damage was the horticultural insurance quotes on Tuesday, 23 August reported, especially from the area Emsdetten / Rheine (Westphalia, northern district of Steinfurt) and further northeast until about Mettingen Bramsche (Osnabrück). The hailstorm brought here in about 15 growers in particular damage to glass, the largest single loss amounted to approximately 5,000 broken windows. Significant was that the storm front comparatively few but large hail up to hen's egg contained, so that field crops were hardly affected by hail.

Another hailstorm crossed on the same day the Fulda region (eastern Hesse) on Mühlhausen (Thuringia), with most damage in Quedlinburg (Saxony-Anhalt). The biggest single loss came here to destroy approximately 3,200 m² and 10,000 slices of plastic affected area.

Persistent thunderstorms with hail, storms and heavy rain also led the following day to further damage in horticulture. Around 15 messages reached the horticultural insurance especially in the eastern Rhine-Main area on Babenhausen (Darmstadt-Dieburg) to south of Darmstadt. In addition to numerous individual glass damage and damage to the structure were also partly affected outdoor areas. Heavy hail also caused in Upper Bavaria, especially at the Tegernsee lake and near Rosenheim, damage in horticulture. Individually, there were also reports of damage from the glass area of ​​Freiburg (Breisgau) / Offenburg. The magnitude of the damage here was up to 200 discs to each individual operation.

The highlight was the series of severe weather on Friday, 26 August reached. Heaviest hail damage occurred in the village gardener Isselburg-Anholt (western Münsterland). Here were affected approximately 4 acres of glass. Very strong, sharp-edged, sometimes bizarrely shaped hailstones 2 to 3 cm diameter focused mainly large losses in greenhouse plants genörpeltem with clear glass. In particular, the impact sites of these plants usually have total losses. Until the following week, the houses were not to enter, it is assumed considerable damage also to the cultures. The sharp hail damage also led to several film houses.

Also on the Lower Rhine, between money and Straelen Wachtendonk, led especially hail, heavy rain and storm but also to up to 70 mostly minor damage. Further food damages were reported from the Mosel (Zeltingen / Bernkastel-Kues). Here the hail led to two major individual losses.

From the series of severe weather last week, the horticultural business posted about 170 messages so far. The extent of the damage totals € The first estimate to 5 to 6 million. Of these, around 4 to € 5 million alone accounted for 26 August.