Rhine-Main-Danube Canal

Aerial view of an inland vessel that has interrupted its journey on the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal due to drifting ice near Bachhausen, Mühlhausen, Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, taken on January 23, 2006.  

After numerous nights of severe frost, many rivers, lakes, and coastal areas of the North and Baltic Seas were covered with ice at the end of January and the beginning of February 2006. The icy temperatures also caused parts of the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal to freeze. Many an inland skipper had to "winter" at a suitable location and ultimately acknowledge that nature is, in the end, stronger than man.  

(Hoch über Bayern, page 108)