Recent flooding in Bavaria?

All the trains in southern Germany are cancelled, delayed, etc, Stuttgart to Munich and south. I expect roads will be damaged which will add to the fun. Note that this same situation occurred in the Saarland/Alsace just two weeks ago. Be advise this will also impact travel on the rivers. It's going to be a couple days before anyone can accurately forecast any repairs.

Thank you. We will be arriving in Munich second week of June and have booked train tickets to Rothenberg third week of June. Ours is only a vacation so I wish everyone there safety and an end to the suffering.

You'll likely be able to get through, perhaps just not as planned--ie you may have to drive rather than train or take alternate routes or timings. But that is speculation.

I used to live in Landkreis Freising and drove through places like Pfaffenhofen and Allershausen with some regularity. My old stomping grounds are holding up well, though. I am also a member of the DLRG, so wishing my comrades there safe and effective work.

Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately I will not drive in Europe for various reasons so hopefully the rails will be back to normal or near normal by mid June. Like I said, my va cation plans are secondary to the country's residents well being and safety.

You can also inform yourselves on this regional broadcast website (German language).
https://www.br.de/index.html

Deutsche Bahn will inform on problems with trains.
https://int.bahn.de/en/help/contact/special-event?dbkanal_007=L2_S02_D002_KIN0059_Blitzbox-EN_LZ01

Use DeepL for translations.

I just looked up trains from Munich to Nürnberg and Nürnberg to Rothenburg for June 3. It looks like trains are running normally except for trains on the newer high speed ICE route from Munich to Nürnberg (seems to be a problem around Ingolstadt).

Thanks Lee fir the info. Much appreciated.

The issue seems to be mostly in the south, but if you run into a situation where you just can't get to RodT as planned go to Ansbach, which is a regional train hub, and take a taxi or bus to Rothenberg.

We will be arriving in Munich in the second week of June and have booked train tickets to Rothenberg.

It looks like the trains are running normally, except for the trains on the newer high-speed ICE line from Munich to Nuremberg (seems to be a problem around Ingolstadt).

The route is flooded in Reichertshofen, south of Ingolstadt, but the water is already draining away (according to my daughter who lives there). But even if the line is not reopened by @michael.vera's travel date, he/they can always go via Augsburg and Treuchtlingen, where there are no problems, and it doesn't even have to take much longer.

Longer lasting problems, however, are expected between Munich and Stuttgart, where the line is partially buried by a landslide, and Munich - Zurich, which is interrupted in several places by flooding.

That's all inconvenient for the visitor, of course, but we've had the heaviest rainfall in 20 years, so things like that are inevitable. I live south of Augsburg between the Lech and Wertach rivers, which both bring a lot of water from the alps. But even more problems are caused by the many smaller tributaries of the Danube originating in the foothills of the Alps. In my town, a district that is situated at on of that rivers had to be evacuated on Sunday night. While the normal water level is below one meter, yesterday it was 3.27 meters.

But the end of the rains is forecast for tomorrow, and it is therefore to be expected that next week's train travelers will reach their destination, be it Rothenburg or elsewhere in southern Germany. It may take a little longer than usual, but given the circumstances, this is hopefully acceptable. Have a safe journey!

An announcement was posted on the Bahn website.

It says, in part,

Munich cannot currently be reached by long distance trains [my emph.] from
Stuttgart, Würzburg and Nuremberg.

As far as I can tell from the website, regional trains are running normally between Munich and Nürnberg on tracks separate from the high speed trains. There is an announcement of some tracks in Nürnberg being non-handicapped accessible because of work on an elevator.

As far as I can tell from the website, regional trains are running normally between Munich and Nürnberg on tracks separate from the high speed trains

At the moment, that is out of the question. The flooded area is south of Ingolstadt (Reichertshofen), and in Ingolstadt the new ICE line and the old line via Treuchtlingen meet. That is, south of there, towards Munich, there are no separate lines. The detour via Augsburg-Treuchtlingen has also been closed since this morning because a dam on the Schmutter river north of Augsburg has burst (the flooding of the southern Danube tributaries is currently shifting northwards). The detour via Regensburg is also blocked due to an undercut near Landshut. So, as of today, Munich cannot be reached by train from the north. However, it is hoped that at least the section south of Ingolstadt can be repaired quickly, as the flood waters of the Paar are also moving northwards, thus clearing the damaged section.

Cf. https://regional.bahn.de/regionen/bayern/fahrplan/aktuelle_betriebslage Scroll down to "München-Ingolstadt" and "Augsburg-Donauwörth". NB. the info on the DB Navigator/Web Page ist not up to date.

Update 04. Jun, 2024

(1) The Munich - Ingolstadt - Nuremberg line has been open again since noon.
(2) Munich - Augsburg - Nuremberg, on the other hand, remains closed for an indefinite period, as the floodwater is moving north along the railroad line.
(3) Munich-Regensburg-Nuremberg is open again, but on only one track. There will be delays of at least 40 minutes.