The cross-section of the Main-Danube canal waterway is normally trapezoidal, with 31 metres (102 ft) width at the bottom, 55 metres (180 ft) width with at the water surface, 4 metres (13 ft) of water depth, and a side grade of 1:3. The largest authorised vessel is 190 metres (620 ft) long and 11.45 metres (37.6 ft) wide. Before you ask all the tourist craft are built to provide about 8-10 inches clearance on either side of the vessel when in the lock! At tight squeeze when entering and all done at some speed!
This link shows the profile of the canal as it rises to its highest point at the European Continental Divide 406 metres above sea level.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine–Main–Danube_Canal#/media/File:Main-Donau-Kanal-Höhenprofil.svg
I can't find a way of downloading this profile as a photo but suffice to say that the 2 deepest locks at this point are at Eckersmuehlen and Hipolstein each at 24.7 metres height.
To give you an idea of the locks, their location and height I am going to try an experiment and embed in this post a pdf file provided my APT listing the locks. Hooray that has worked!
LOCK LIST AMSTERDAM TO BUDAPEST
2 locks on Amsterdam-Rhine Canal (72 km)
Km Name of Lock Drop or Lift
0.0 Amsterdam, IJ (body of Water 0.5 M below North Sea Level)
59.0 Wijk bij Duurstede Variable
71.0 Tiel Variable
72.0 Entrance to the Waal (Rhine)
No locks on our stretch on the Rhine (Waal) from Tiel in Holland and Germany (415 km)
913.0 Entrance to Amsterdam-Rhine Canal (Tiel)
865.5 Border Germany & Netherlands
857.4 – 865.5 Right Netherlands, Left Germany
686.0 – 690.0 Cologne (37 m)
655 Bonn
592.2 Confluence of the Moselle & Rhine / Koblenz (64 m)
Rhine Gorge with all the Castles
527.3 Rüdesheim am Rhein dock ( 80 m )
496.6 Entrance to the Main (84 m)
34 locks on the Main (386 km)
Km Name of Lock or Town Height in meters
0.0 Entrance to the Rhine
3.2 Kostheim 2.3 m
15.5 Edderheim 3.5 m
28.7 Griesheim 4.5 m
38.5 Offenbach (Frankfurt km 34) 3.1 m
53.2 Muehlheim 3.8 m
63.0 Krotzenburg 2.7 m
77.9 Kleinostheim 6.8 m
92.0 Obernau 4.0 m
101.2 Wallstadt 4.0 m
113.1 Klingenberg 4.0 m
122.4 Heubach 4.0 m
132.3 Freudenberg ( 133 m)
133.0 Freudenberg 4.5 m
147.0 Faulbach 4.5 m
156.7 Wertheim ( 145 m)
160.5 Eichel 4.5 m
174.5 Lengfurt 3.4 m
185.9 Rothenfels 5.2 m
200.6 Steinbach 5.1 m
219.0 Harbach 4.9 m
232.0 Himmelstadt 4.3 m
241.0 Erlabrunn 4.1 m
252.0 Würzburg 2.7 m
251.0 Würzburg ( 172 m)
258.0 Randesacker 3.3 m
269.0 Gossmansdorf 3.4 m
275.0 Marktbreit 3.3 m
283.0 Kitzingen 3.6 m
286.4 Kitzingen (186 m)
295.0 Dettelbach 5.5 m
300.0 Gerlachshausen 6.3 m
316.0 Wipfeld 4.2 m
323.0 Garstadt 4.7 m
332.0 Schweinfurt (202 m) 4.6 m
345.0 Ottendorf 7.6 m
359.0 Knetzgau 4.3 m
367.0 Limbach 5.3 m
381.0 Viereth 6.3 m
386.0 Entrance to Main-Danube-Canal2
16 Locks on the Main – Danube Canal (171 km)
Km Name of Lock or Town Height in meters
0.0 Entrance to Main-Danube-Canal
3.0 Bamberg Harbour (223 m)
10.0 Bamberg 10.5 m
13.2 Strullendorf 7.4 m
26.0 Forchheim 5.3 m
33.0 Hausen 12.0 m
41.0 Erlangen 18.3 m
48.8 Kriegenbrunn 18.3 m
53.7 Aquaduct over Zenn River 2 roads
61.9 Aquaduct over Rednitz River
69.0 Nuremberg 9.4 m
68.0 Nuremberg Harbour (304 m)
73.0 Eibach 19.5 m
79.0 Aquaduct over Schwarzach River
84.3 Leerstetten 24.7 m
87.1 Aquaduct over Finsterbach River
95.0 Eckersmuehlen 24.7 m
99.0 Hilpoltstein 24.7 m
102.5 European Continental Divide (406 m)
115.5 Bachhausen 17.0 m
122.5 Berching 17.0 m
135.2 Dietfurt 17.0 m
150.7 Riedenburg 8.4 m
166.1 Kelheim (338 m) 8.4 m
16 Locks on the Danube (764 km)
Km Name of Lock or Town Height in meters
2411.0 Entering Danube (338 m)
2397.0 Bad Abbach 5.7 m
2380.0 Regensburg (326 m) 5.2 m
2370.0 Walhalla Monument
2354.0 Geisling 7.3 m
2324.0 Straubing 10.2 m
2230.0 Kachlet 9.8 m
2225.3 Passau (290 m)
2203.5 Jochenstein 10.2 m
2201.7 Border Austria & Germany
2160.0 Aschach 15.4 m
2147.0 Ottensheim 12.1 m
2136.2 Linz (266 m)
2119.5 Abwinden 10.8 m
2094.5 Wallsee 13.3 m
2061.1 Ybbs-Persenbeug 12.0 m
2038.0 Melk 11.0 m
2037.0 Melk (213 m)
2009.0 Dürnstein (209 m)
1980.4 Altenwörth 16.0 m
1943.3 Greifenstein 14.0 m
1933.8 Vienna (151 m)
1921.0 Freudenau 10.0 m
1872.7 Border Slovakia & Austria
1866.0 Bratislava (126 m)
1854.0 Border Hungary & Slovakia
1811.4 Gabcikovo 19.0 m
1853.0 – 1811.4 Gabcikovo Power Plant Canal
1708.2 – 1854.0 Left Hungary, Right Slovakia
1708.2 Confluence with Ipoly or Eipel (Danube Knee)
1652.0 Budapest (96 m) (end of the cruise)
1433.0 Border Croatia & Hungary
