Electricity chaos in Zweibrücken: Mörsbach sets in the dark during the day!

Electricity chaos in Zweibrücken: Mörsbach sets in the dark during the day!

On Saturday, August 17, 2025, Zweibrücken experienced one of the largest power outages in the last five years. The outage began at around 5:30 p.m. and affected large parts of the city center as well as the districts of Ixheim, the Hilgard Center, Mörsbach and Oberauerbach. While the municipal utilities restored light in most areas within a few hours, restoring the power supply in Mörsbach took almost the entire day Saarbrücken newspaper reported.

The public utilities control center was overloaded, which resulted in a reporter being stuck on hold for an hour. Managing director Werner Brennemann announced that an “earth fault” was the trigger for the large-scale blackout. Among those affected was Edeka Ernst in the Hilgard Center, which had to be closed; The cooling system failed and customers were asked to leave their shopping carts behind. The prison also had problems, but was able to help with an emergency generator.

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At 10:26 p.m., the city reported that power had been restored in the city center and Ixheim. Mörsbach, however, remained in the dark for the time being. Mobile phone networks also only worked sporadically, but the connection to the power outage remains questionable. Entrepreneur Roland Zadra reported a brief power outage during a birthday party in his hotel and restaurant, while the lights in the “Romantik Hotel Landschloss Fasanerie” went out for about 20 minutes.

During the night, public utilities worked tirelessly to complete the repairs. A major defect in the Mörsbach transformer station was cited as the cause of the delay, and on Sunday morning the mood in Mörsbach was rather relaxed despite the failure. Citizens helped each other with gas stoves and chargers and thus showed their neighborly support. Finally, at 5:28 p.m., the relief news came: The electricity in Mörsbach was flowing again, and had been since around 5:17 p.m.

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The municipal utilities announced that a detailed analysis of the causes of the ground faults would be carried out and informed that a total of three ground faults were detected - two in Mörsbach and one in the city center. The exact cause of the earth faults remained unclear until this report was completed, but the public utility company remains willing to investigate and prevent future failures.

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