Originally Posted by
dmahon
Arriving (U.K. national, flying from London - triple vaccinated) in Salzburg tomorrow and picking up a hire car. Want to travel to Lofer. Usual way is to cut across the little bit of Bavaria for 30 minutes.
Is this allowed? What’s the worst that would happen (turned back at the border to go the long way round)?
My reading of:
https://www.bundesgesundheitsministe...de.html#c20264
suggests it is ok as an exemption as I will be transiting: “
The same goes for persons who are only in transit through and leaving the Federal Republic of Germany as quickly as possible to complete their transit journey.”
How is it in practice?
Being a Bavarian myself with family in the Austrian-German border area I believe you what you've quoted is right. The post of the other poster refers in my opinion who want to travel say from Danmark to Italy via Germany (so long distance travel).
Practically there are almost no controls (especially if you avoid using the Autobahn to cross the border) mostly only spot checks. If you credibly can explain that you only cross Germany for 30min no one will fine you and you'll be good to go. Also I assume as you have entered Austria you will all have valid PCR tests so no problem with Austrian checks.
I will do almost the same early January (flying to Austria and then back to LHR from MUC) and will use the same exemption to cover my 2 hour train journey from the Austrian border to MUC.