© René PriebeIn the so-called Siemens underpass, a car is up to its hood in water in an underpass after a heavy thunderstorm.
Violent storms with heavy rain and hail plagued parts of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg on Tuesday night.
In Bruchsal, a river overflowed its banks and spread through the old town.
In other states, emergency services reported flooded cellars and streets.
The storms followed a heat wave that brought Germany's hottest day of the year so far, according to preliminary data from the German Weather Service.
