The figure below shows flood levels of Germany’s Danube River recorded in the town of Passau over more than 500 years. As the caption states, the highest flood level over this period was back in 1501, and only two of the nine severe floods occurred during the last 70 years.
Germany in fact has been battered by devastating floods many times during the last few centuries, including a 1717 Christmas Eve flood that killed 13,700 people. More recently, the Ahr valley in Germany, which was struck in July 2021, experienced major floods in the same locations on 12 June 1910, when at least 52 people were killed.
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