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A valley filled with light morning mist under a blue sky. On the left a castle ruin rises above a slope planted with vines; bottom right, the river with a row of houses on the far bank.

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Panorama of the Rhine with the white Pfalzgrafenstein Castle on an exposed sandbank; behind it the small town of Kaub on the bank and wooded hills with vineyards under a blue sky.

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A white round tower with a pointed slate roof and a digital display showing the figures 019, with the name Kaub on the wall. Behind the tower, a slope with vines and a castle under a clear blue sky.

Pegel Kaub: what the Rhine's low water level does and does not mean

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Schuttevaer — Waterpeil belangrijk knelpunt Rijn bij Kaub richting nieuw dieptepunt | Schuttevaer.nl (2026-09-23)

Wikipedia — Pegel Kaub – Wikipedia (2026-09-23)

BfG — BfG - Niedrigwasser-Update (2026-09-23)

Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission — Oberes Mittelrheintal - Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission (2026-09-23)

wetter.com — Niedrigwasser am Rhein: Rekord-Pegel in Kaub belastet Wirtschaft zunehmend | wetter.com (2026-09-23)

Spektrum.de — Pegel, Kaub, Fahrverbot: Was zum Niedrigwasser wichtig ist - Spektrum der Wissenschaft (2026-09-23)

NOS — De machtige Rijn sijpelt naar zee (2026-09-23)

Weeronline — Hier komt het water in de Rijn vandaan (2026-09-23)

BfG — BfG - Themenseite Niedrigwasser (2026-09-23)

Wikipedia — Kaub – Wikipedia (2026-09-23)

tagesschau.de — Warum die Fahrrinne im Rhein bisher nicht ausgebaut wurde | tagesschau.de (2026-09-23)

BfG — Nach historischen Tiefständen: Regen lindert Niedrigwasser etwas (BfG-Niedrigwasserbericht, Berichtsperiode 14. bis 20.08.2026) (2026-09-23)

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Morning mist in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley near Rheindiebach, a few kilometres upstream of Kaub, 30 October 2022. On the left the ruins of Fürstenberg Castle above the vineyards; bottom right the Rhine, with Lorchhausen on the opposite bank.

abbilder · CC BY 4.0

The gauge tower on the Rhine bank at Kaub, its digital water-level display reading 19 centimetres, 6 August 2026. On the slope behind it, Gutenfels Castle above the vineyards.

Marion Halft · CC BY-SA 4.0

Kaub and Pfalzgrafenstein Castle during the extreme low water on the Middle Rhine, 8 August 2026. Around the castle in the river, a broad strip of sand and gravel lies dry.

Rolf Kranz · CC BY-SA 4.0