Breisach

A port of call on 180 of the river cruise sailings we watch. Below: the water those ships travel when they call here, measured this morning, and one story from it.

The water here

Upper Rhine (Mainz–Basel)

Held by locks · Mainz (Rhine-km 498) – Basel (Rhine-km 167)

180 of the 180 sailings that call at Breisach travel this stretch of river.

The gauge that governs this stretch of river is at Maxau.

Maxau Rhine

283 cm falling 5 centimetres over 72 hours falling 5 cm over 72 hours

low on mean low/high water (MNW/MHW) · normal on navigational reference levels (NSW/HSW) — the publisher's own classification of its own reading.

337 cm below the 620 cm first high-water mark (speed and wash limits, and the room under the bridges starts to run out).

3 hours ago · source: PEGELONLINE (WSV)

Every reading we hold on the Rhine today

Every reading here is a measurement somebody has already taken, never a forecast. The writing beside it is history and geography: it tells you nothing about today's water and nothing about whether a ship sails. Your cruise line decides what your ship does.

One story from this water

Bernhard's short-lived Upper Rhine prize

Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar entered Breisach as the celebrated conqueror of one of the Rhine's strongest fortresses in 1638. His death the following year left the city and his Alsatian conquests to be absorbed into French power politics.

1638-1639 · stadt.breisach.de

Every story here says where it was read. A link opens the publisher's own page; a title names a published work we read.

Sailings that call at Breisach

And 168 more. Find your own sailing to see the water on the days you are on it.

Every port we watch

Linking is not endorsement. The publisher controls its own page, its own values and its own terms.