Photo Gallery Germany on Ice
Think sheets of ice accumulate on the bank of the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany on Sunday.
A parked car collects ice and snow on a Berlin street. Sub-zero temperatures are expected to persist throughout the coming days; leaving this particular car undrivable and perhaps unfindable as well.
Help, I'm melting: In the German capital of Berlin, artist Ralf Schmerberg erected 750 snowmen as part of a demonstration calling for greater efforts to fight climate change. Schmerberg called on aspiring snow sculptors across the city to participate in the action.
A man wields a snowblower to dislodge the raw materials necessary to build the gaggle of snowmen.
A ship standing in the port of St. Pauli in Hamburg sports an impressive block of ice on its bow.
People flock to the frozen Einfeldersee Lake in Neumünster in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein despite biting -10 degrees Celsisus (14 degrees Fahrenheit) temperatures.
A woman wearing a fur hat well-chosen for the Arctic chill shoots a photograph of the frozen Spree River in Berlin.
The barge Lucas is frozen in place by ice in Wolfsburg, Germany against the backdrop of Volkswagen's global heasquarters and main European factory. The canal between Wolfsburg and Magdeburg in the east had to be closed because of the thick sheet of ice.
The weather in southern Germany was comparably mild on Sunday. Here, a woman wanders along the banks of the Ammersee Lake on a foggy day in Herrsching, Bavaria.
Temperatures were far colder in parts of Eastern Europe. In Poland, 11 people died on Sunday night and Monday morning, with a total of 16 killed by the cold over the weekend, the government in Warsaw (pictured here) announced on Monday.
In southern Poland, 6,000 households are currently suffering from power outages. This is an improvement on the 100,000 people that were living without power only two weeks ago. Sixteen people, mostly homeless, froze to death in Poland over the weekend.
People are pictured against a frozen window as they exit from a subway station in Bucharest. Parts of Romania experienced temperatures as low as -35 degrees Celsius on Sunday night and early Monday morning.
