Overview
- About 80 meters of Kreisstraße 48 broke away next to the Quarzwerk Baums site in Lette and slid into the adjacent quarry lake, according to county officials.
- Witnesses reported the roadway subsiding and called emergency services, allowing police and firefighters to close the route before the failure.
- The collapsed stretch is secured with fencing and will be unusable for the foreseeable future, with signed detours and reorganized school-bus service.
- Quarzwerk Baums says the slope failure occurred during permitted excavator operations and has commissioned external experts while cooperating with regulators and emergency services.
- Measurements and timing differ across accounts, with officials citing roughly 80 meters and the operator describing a wider area and a multi‑hour slide, as the cause remains under investigation.