A port of call on 161 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 · Bamberg – Kelheim (Danube-km 2414), via Nuremberg
106 of the 161 sailings that call at Regensburg travel this stretch of river.
This water does not have a measured level. There is no reading for today and no line to measure one against. 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.
Free-flowing · Straubing (Danube-km 2321) – Vilshofen (Danube-km 2249)
73 of the 161 sailings that call at Regensburg 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
216 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.
74 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
145 cm falling 6 centimetres over 72 hours falling 6 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.
62 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.
The Amberg Salzstadel (early 16th century) and the Regensburg salt store of 1616–20 were built against the Stone Bridge itself. For centuries this was the pinch-point of the north–south salt road across the east–west river. The Historische Wurstkuchl on the same bank began as a canteen for the bridge builders. UNESCO old-town tourism and residual inland shipping (via the side canal) are the present trades. The salt buildings are the reason the city was rich enough to be imperial.
12th century–ongoing · en.wikipedia.org
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 149 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.
