Pegel Lehnitz Op — Havel-Oder-Wasserstrasse
The Havel-Oder-Wasserstrasse at Lehnitz Op was 839 cm at 05:30 CEST on 24 October 2026, down 1 cm in 24 hours. That is within the normal range.
Last 7 days
Lowest 833 cm · highest 843 cm · 672 readings
Other gauges on the Havel-Oder-Wasserstrasse
Berlin-Spandau Up 140 cm Berlin-Spandau Op 339 cm Borgsdorf 242 cm Lehnitz Up 242 cm Niederfinow Shw Op 837 cm Niederfinow Shw Up 50 cm Hohensaaten West Bp 199 cm Hohensaaten West Ap 90 cm Schwedt Schleuse Bp 505 cm Friedrichsthal 504 cm
River km 28.7 · Standort Eberswalde · map ↗
Reading a gauge
- The number is not the depth. It is measured from a fixed gauge zero, so the shipping channel holds more water than the reading suggests.
- Low means below the gauge's mean low water (MNW); high means above its mean high water (MHW). Flood warnings come from each German state's flood centre.
- On the Rhine, barges load by the Kaub gauge in the Middle Rhine gorge; as it falls they carry less and freight costs rise.
- Swimming in the Rhine is dangerous at any level: strong currents and ship wash pull swimmers under.
What this page shows, and what it misses
Gauges on Germany's federal waterways, as published by the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration every 15 minutes. These are raw readings ("Rohdaten") that can still be corrected. Small rivers run by the German states are not in this network — for those and for flood warnings, use your state's Hochwasserzentrale.
Data: Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung des Bundes (WSV), PEGELONLINE, licence DL-DE→Zero-2.0.