Moselle · km 51.6
Cochem
Held by locks Level held by locks. Weirs keep a working depth through a drought, so the risk on this stretch is high water and lock operations — not low water.
The photogenic bend under Reichsburg Cochem, and the busiest cruise call on the Moselle. The pool is held by weirs; the river's bad days are high-water days.
Right now
Cochem Moselle
215 cm falling 2 centimetres over 72 hours falling 2 cm over 72 hours
normal on mean low/high water (MNW/MHW) · normal on navigational reference levels (NSW/HSW) — the publisher's own classification of its own reading.
No official high-water mark is transcribed for this gauge from a source we have read, so none is shown. Read the authority's notices.
Measured history, last 4 days · 213–224 cm
Twenty-eight barrages hold the Moselle from Koblenz past Trier to the Luxembourg border, so a low reading here closes nothing. No numeric closure mark is published for these gauges in a source we have read, so none is invented.
Official forecasts and notices for this gauge
Linking is not endorsement. The publisher controls its own page, its own values and its own terms.
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ELWIS — German federal waterways notices and navigation information
The official notices channel for commercial navigation on the German waterways: closures, lock works and high-water restrictions in the authority's own wording.
Waterlogged does not reproduce or interpret the values on this page. Linking needs no licence; the notice text remains governed by the publisher's terms, so Waterlogged does not scrape it into a report.
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PEGELONLINE — German federal waterways gauge service
The publisher of every German centimetre on this site, with its own station pages and its own classification of each reading.
History on this date
History on this date
The same-date history panel for this gauge is not available in this build.
This is measured history, not a forecast and not an estimate of disruption probability.
Rain in the next 14 days
Status: rain forecast not yet enabled. Waterlogged shows forecast precipitation only under a paid Open-Meteo commercial contract, and no contract key is configured on this deployment. The official services linked below publish their own rain forecasts.
Rain may slow a fall or create a rise after losses and routing. Waterlogged does not convert this forecast into gauge centimetres or a cruise-disruption probability.
Read a rain forecast at the source
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Deutscher Wetterdienst — official German weather forecasts
Germany's national weather service forecast for the Rhine, Main, Moselle and Danube catchments.
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yr.no — free European rain forecasts (MET Norway / NRK)
A free public forecast covering the same catchments, if you want rain amounts today.
Source, licence and limits
- Source: PEGELONLINE (WSV) — terms of use.
- Measurement time: every reading on this page carries the time it was taken, and a stale reading is flagged rather than reused.
- Transformation: the level is the publisher's. The gap, where one is shown, is Waterlogged's arithmetic and is labelled as such.
- Reference-data note: Live value confirmed against PEGELONLINE REST v2 on 2026-08-02; river_km from PEGELONLINE's own station list.
- Not for navigation. Nothing on this page should be used to plan the movement of a vessel.
Lower Moselle gauge at Cochem, live from PEGELONLINE (DL-DE/Zero 2.0) — 214 cm at 2026-08-02T22:45+02:00 on first wiring. IMPOUNDED CORRIDOR: the pool above the Fankel barrage holds this level, so low water is not the binding constraint. Carried for corridor context and for the high-water tail.
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