The Ludwigsburg District Office, as the lower disaster control authority, has ordered a siren test as part of the first nationwide warning day to test the functionality of the alerting network in the event of a disaster and to sensitize citizens to the topic of "warning the population".
The primary aim of the nationwide warning day is to familiarize the public with the topic of warning and to impart the necessary knowledge about warning routes and procedures. The Warning Day is repeated annually on the second Thursday in September.
On this day, the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance will trigger all available warning devices nationwide at 11.00 a.m., for example activating warning apps and warning messages via radio. For this reason, around 90 sirens will also be switched on in the Ludwigsburg district at 11 a.m. sharp: The signal "One minute wail" means in an emergency: there is an immediate danger in the area or this is to be expected shortly. Citizens should use all possible information media for further information broadcast by all local and regional radio stations and follow the official instructions. At 11.20 a.m. the sirens will be switched on again with the signal "One minute continuous tone". This signal means that there is no longer any acute danger. The population should use all possible information media to obtain further information.
As the responsible local police authority, the municipalities can warn their population by triggering the local sirens. If several municipalities are affected or even the entire district, the alarm is triggered via the integrated control center of the Ludwigsburg district (ILS).
However, some towns and municipalities in the district no longer have sirens: Ludwigsburg, Kornwestheim, Korntal-Münchingen, Marbach, Vaihingen, Ditzingen, Freiberg and Oberstenfeld (except Gronau and Prevorst) as well as the districts of Bissingen and Untermberg in the town of Bietigheim-Bissingen. Eberdingen is not connected to the general disaster alarm network with its sirens, but can only use them for local fire department alarms.
In towns and municipalities that no longer have sirens or are not connected to the general disaster alert network, the population is warned in an emergency by loudspeaker vans and also via the NINA warning app (emergency information and news app) from the federal government.
