Winter service in Brandenburg: Focus on the residents!

in Brandenburg an der Havel, the responsibilities for winter service are clearly regulated. Several actors, including the city of Brandenburg, the service provider Mebra and the state road operation, are commissioned to clear the snow and smoothness. Like Maz-online.de reports, winter service is based on various urgency levels, whereby no winter service is carried out in urban green areas, with a few exceptions.

The duties of the residents are particularly important. These are obliged to clear and spread the adjacent sidewalks and streets of cleaning class C. The streets for which residents are responsible include the Bornufer, Hagelberger Straße, Maulbeerweg and Zwickauer Weg. In this case, sidewalks must be cleared so that safe access to crosswalks and traffic light systems is guaranteed.

duties of the residents and punishments

The residents have to mechanically remove snow and ice and can then use dulling means. According to the requirements, wide sidewalks do not have to be fully cleared; A strip of 1.50 meters is sufficient. On streets without a sidewalk, a 1.50 meter wide strip is also to be kept free to the built -up side of the road.

Snow must be removed immediately on working days from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. If snowfall continues, repeated elimination and scattering is required. The permissible stray are sand, grit, chips and granules, while the use of salt is not permitted on sidewalks because it can burden the environment.

However, salt may be used in exceptional cases, for example in the event of ice rain. Snow from the property must not be pushed onto the sidewalk or the road, and snowy snow must not be deposited on tree slices or green areas. If the regulations are not complied with, fines in the range of 5 to 1000 euros in accordance with paragraph 9 "administrative offense" of the street cleaning statute.

according to stadt-brandenburg.de reminds the property owners of their residents who were published in the Official Journal. Adjusting sidewalks are also to be cleared of snow and ice, the regulations have been emphasized again and again in recent years to ensure the safety of pedestrians.

If you have any further questions about winter service, residents can contact the city administration on telephone numbers 03381/58 3119 or 58 3140.