The present study investigated the effects of prosodic cues for local ambiguity resolution in German SVO and OVS sentences. Thirty-two healthy participants were tested in a web-based two-alternative forced choice task to examine whether listeners are sensitive to two different prosody conditions for distinguishing SVO and OVS structures as quickly and accurately as possible. We examined a syntactically marked prosody condition (i.e., naturally produced f0 cues differentiating between SVO and OVS structures) and an enhanced prosody condition (i.e., marked prosody with naturally increased f0 maximum). Response accuracy and reaction times were assessed following signal detection theory and by running linear mixed models. We found only moderate discriminability of both word order structures with higher sensitivity levels for enhanced compared to marked prosody. This is in line with the mixed results of previous studies suggesting that prosodic cues constitute more subtle information for structural disambiguation of German SVO and OVS sentences. However, we add to those results by demonstrating a more facilitative role of enhanced prosody. Research on variability of prosodic word order cues in sentence comprehension still remains open to further investigation.