A port of call on 80 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.
Held by locks · Passau (Danube-km 2226) – Vienna (Danube-km 1929)
80 of the 80 sailings that call at Melk travel this stretch of river.
The gauge that governs this stretch of river is at Kienstock.
Kienstock Danube
94 cm falling 24 centimetres over 72 hours falling 24 cm over 72 hours
507 cm below the 601 cm first high-water mark (speed and wash limits, and the room under the bridges starts to run out).
Free-flowing · Straubing (Danube-km 2321) – Vilshofen (Danube-km 2249)
9 of the 80 sailings that call at Melk travel this stretch of river.
The gauge that governs this stretch of river is at Pfelling, and we read one more station beside it.
Pfelling Danube
222 cm steady over 72 hours steady 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.
68 cm below the 290 cm published low-water reference. Published low-water reference for this stretch. The waterway authority's own published figure for this stretch, not Waterlogged's arithmetic and not a requirement set by any cruise line.
Hofkirchen Danube
155 cm rising 3 centimetres over 72 hours rising 3 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.
52 cm below the 207 cm published low-water reference. Published low-water reference for this stretch. The waterway authority's own published figure for this stretch, not Waterlogged's arithmetic and not a requirement set by any cruise line.
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.
Jakob Prandtauer (1660–1726) spent his late career on Melk. Joseph Munggenast finished it. The yellow west front is a personal signature on the Austrian river.
1702–1736 · Stift Melk; Prandtauer monographs
Every story here says where it was read. A link opens the publisher's own page; a title names a published work we read.
And 68 more. Find your own sailing to see the water on the days you are on it.
Linking is not endorsement. The publisher controls its own page, its own values and its own terms.
