New Danube next to the Reichsbrücke. Private motorboats are not permitted on the New Danube. It has been described as an "autobahn for swimmers", due to its use by people to commute around the city. New Danube The New Danube (German Neue Donau) is a side channel built in 1972–88 on the eastern side of the Danube in Vienna, Austria. It was created to provide flood relief by containing excess water. The Donauinsel (Danube Island), made out of the removed material, separates the new waterway from the main channel of the river. The project was referred to by the United Nations Human
Commissions of the Danube River effective control of the Lower Danube in May 1939, when the Sinaia Agreement (concluded on 18 August 1938) entered into force. "See main articles Nazi rule over the Danube River (1938–1945) and Danube Commission (after 1945)" In 1938, a committee of experts inspected the Sulina and found it was almost impassable by that time. And in August of that same year, the regime of the two commissions was swept away by rise of German power on the river. A series of treaties put control in the hands of the Germans, who maintained it until the Nazi retreat in 1944 and