River
Pegnitz
113 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Regnitz
In numbers
Length
113km
Average flow
12m³/s
Basin
1,230km²
Drop
119m
from 399 m to 280 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
113 km of river and 36 stops on the way: 18 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 399 m
- 0 kmViadukt
- 0 kmEisenbahnbrücke in Neuhaus an der Pegnitz
- 16 kmNeuhaus an der Pegnitz2,974 people
- 19 kmEisenbahnbrücke in Hartenstein
- 21 kmVelden1,887 people
- 22 kmHartenstein1,534 people
- 27 kmHarnbach-Wasserfall
- 34 kmVorra1,810 people
- 44 kmPommelsbrunn5,432 people
- 46 kmHappurger See0.4 km²
- 46 kmHappurg3,779 people
- 47 kmHögenbachtributary
- 51 kmHersbruck12,404 people
- 57 kmHenfenfeld1,926 people
- 59 kmReichenschwand2,295 people
- 63 kmOttensoos2,051 people
- 65 kmNeunkirchen am Sand4,758 people
- 69 kmLauf an der Pegnitz26,403 people
- 74 kmRückersdorf4,518 people
- 75 kmRöthenbach an der Pegnitz12,224 people
- 76 kmRöthenbachtributary
- 80 kmSchwaig8,340 people
- 95 kmKonrad-Adenauer-Brücke
- 96 kmHeubrücke (Nürnberg)
- 96 kmSpitalbrücke (Nürnberg)
- 97 kmHeilig-Geist-Spital Nuremberg
- 97 kmMuseumsbrücke (Nürnberg)
- 97 kmNuremberg531,159 people
- 97 kmFleischbrücke (Nürnberg)
- 97 kmKarlsbrücke (Nuremberg)
- 97 kmHenkersteg
- 97 kmMaxbrücke
- 98 kmChain Bridge
- 98 kmHallertorbrücke (Nürnberg)
- 102 kmWetzendorf8,268 people
- 108 kmFürth131,344 people
- 113 kmRegnitzat 280 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Natural watercourse in Germany
At the mouth it carries 12 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 208 seconds. It drops from 399 m to 280 m, 1.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,230 km², about the size of MQ. 1.0 million people live in it. Highest water: February. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (17% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- NurembergLargest city on its banks · 531,159 people
- Nuremberg Airport (NUE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 5 km from the cityCar hire at NUE airport (Nuremberg)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water5 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe29 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Pegnitz, month by month
Highest water: February
Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 11 m³/s in the lowest month to 62 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
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The basin
Pegnitz: the basin in numbers
3,395 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.0millionpeople live in the basin
- 299/km²people per km²
- 429maverage altitude of the basin
- 700mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.2°Caverage air temperature
- 43%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 43% Forest
- 23% Cropland
- 11% Pasture
- 14% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Pegnitz: what you find on the way
- 61WeirsNeuensorg, Bauriedelwehr, Katharinenwehr and 58 more
- 5WaterfallsHarnbach-Wasserfall and 4 more
- 7RapidsLungsdorfer Schwall, Fuchslochwelle, Förstermühle and 4 more
- 22Canoe put-insNeuhaus, Engenthal, Neuensorg and 19 more
- 4Boat ramps
- 1River beachesWasserzugang über Treppe
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Pegnitz in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
1lake on its wayLakeyas
37mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Harnbach-Wasserfallkm 19
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Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Happurger Seekm 320.4km²
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Mountains at the source (37)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Kleiner Kulm3.4 km away627m
- Schloßberg0.3 km away543m
- Kütschenrainberg9.3 km away · prominence 188 m647m
- Sophienberg14 km away594m
- Zipser Berg3.1 km away552m
- Tannenberg11 km away596m
- Schellkopf6.5 km away495m
- Platte9.2 km away
29 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Pegnitz in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
RegnitzGermany59 km51 m³/sTributaries (9)
Also: Schnaittach, Högenbach, Goldbach, Fichtenohe, Röthenbach, Langwassergraben, Tiefgraben, Hammerbach, Langwasser
The Netherlands
SwitzerlandNearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q163880) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Cascadyas, Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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