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No stretch of land along the river is left open to the floods. The Danube has a rate of flow of 10,000 m 3 /s (350,000 cu ft/s) at its fastest, and 600 m 3 /s (21,000 cu ft/s) at its slowest, in the region of Budapest. The difference between water levels can be as high as 6 to 8 m (20 to 26 ft).
The body of a 73-year-old man was found in the flooded basement of a family home in Devín borough, [133] and the level of Danube reached 966 centimeters at 10 a.m. [132] On Wednesday, 18 September, the level of the Danube and Morava peaked between 970 and 980 centimeters, in Devín they reached approximately 910 centimeters.
Parts of this ancient river's bed, which was much larger than today's Danube, can still be seen in (now waterless) canyons in today's landscape of the Swabian Alb. After the Upper Rhine valley had been eroded, most waters from the Alps changed their direction and began feeding the Rhine. Today's upper Danube is thus an underfit stream.
The Danube river was at its peak 865 cm (28 ft 4 in) high in Budapest, Hungary, higher than the previous record of 848 cm in 2002. During the floods, approximately 11,000 buildings were in danger of flood damage, 32,000 people were threatened by the water, and 1.72 square kilometres (475 acres) of land were actually under water.
The historic center of Passau, where the Danube, Inn and Ilz converge, was underwater on 1 June 2013, [19] with the water levels reaching 12.85 m (42.2 ft), overflowing the highest recorded historic flood level. [33] [34] After a dike failed near the town of Deggendorf, water levels rose to a record-breaking eight metres (26 ft). The town ...
The bridge is situated at the narrowest part of the Danube in the Budapest area, spanning only 290 m. It is named after Elisabeth of Bavaria, a popular queen and empress of Austria-Hungary, who was assassinated in 1898. Today, her large bronze statue sits by the bridge's Buda side connection in the middle of a small garden. [1] [2]
Margaret Bridge (sometimes Margit Bridge) or Margit híd (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈmɒrgit ˈhiːd]) is a three-way bridge in Budapest, Hungary, connecting Buda and Pest across the Danube and linking Margaret Island to the banks. It is the second-northernmost and second-oldest public bridge in Budapest.
A plaque on the Pest side of the river reads "To commemorate the only two surviving bridges designed by William Tierney Clark: The Széchenyi Chain Bridge over the Danube at Budapest and the suspension bridge over the Thames at Marlow, England." The bridge was closed for traffic between March 2021 and August 2023 for renovations; [8]