German traffic signs

Since I just posted about a car, I thought I'd share a little bit about German traffic signs. Most of them are pretty self-explanatory and similar to those in the US. Mr X and I have, however, seen a few that we have no clue what they mean. We just continue on and ignore them...probably not necessarily a good thing but oh well. So today I went online to find out what one of the unknown ones that we see frequently actually means. I found it and it means we have always the right-of-way on that particular roadway unless otherwise posted (i.e. stop sign, yield, etc).

Anyway, I thought I would share with you some of the German road signs I found online here:

This sign obviously means that snow chains or tires are required. I put it up because I like the depiction.

It's got to be a bit alarming if you are driving down the road and you see this sign, don't you think? It actually means that there is an "unguarded quay, riverbank, or landing ahead or alongside the road."

This one means horses only. I wouldn't have known that it was so restrictive just by looking at it.

This is my personal favorite. This means that the road ahead is used by migrating frogs. Good thing they warn you because that would be so gross to plow into a bunch of frogs unexpectedly.

This one means to watch out for winter sports along the road. I've seen this one. They have places where the ski trail passes right over or right next to a small road. I thought it was strange.

Electrified rail crossing.

Traffic calming zone (No idea what that means - maybe go slow, calm down).

Water polluting cargo prohibited (again, wouldn't have deduced that from the sign).

This sign I put up simply because we saw it while driving around in Vienna. It was crazy to me that we were only a few hours drive from Budapest. I was half tempted just to go because I could...