Erfurt/Nordhausen (dpa/th) - Despite the mirror-smooth streets, Thuringia's schools largely continued to operate on Monday. Individual schools have canceled classes, but emergency care has been set up there, as a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Education said on Monday. The school management decided on the spot together with the school authorities.
In northern Thuringia, the school bus service was canceled due to slippery roads. Both in the Kyffhäuserkreis and in the Nordhausen district, no school buses drove on Monday morning due to the weather conditions, said the responsible school authority manager Bernd-Uwe Althaus. The schools, however, secured the care. Parents are free to leave their children at home.
The Nordhausen transport company announced that due to the weather, regular bus services had also been discontinued. However, there are no restrictions on tram traffic. Traffic should therefore be resumed as soon as safe journeys are possible again on the roads.
The German Weather Service had forecast the risk of black ice on Thuringia's roads on Sunday. The reason is a warm weather front that reached the Free State from the west on Monday night. She brought rain that fell on the cold ground and froze to ice there. In the past few days, it had been freezing cold in Thuringia with temperatures well below freezing.
