Overview
- The rotor blade, weighing about 15 tonnes, detached around 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Bürgerwindpark Berching in the Neumarkt district, with no injuries reported.
- Operator Windpower of Regensburg says this is the first incident of its kind in its 30-year history and is working to determine the cause.
- Police temporarily closed a nearby road after the blade fell from the roughly 140-meter-tall turbine.
- The affected Senvion unit was built in 2012 and was last serviced in November 2025, according to the company.
- Authorities cite TÜV data showing about 50 serious wind-turbine damages a year among roughly 30,000 units in Germany, and the park involves about 2,400 local investors and eight municipalities.