Is it legal to collect at Ardagger, Austria: Danube low-water WWII cargo wreck?

Permission required. Austrian DMSG section 10: any search for archaeological objects needs a Bundesdenkmalamt permit, almost never given to hobbyists; chance finds must be reported; wreck is war grave adjacent material

What can you find at Ardagger, Austria: Danube low-water WWII cargo wreck?

wreck steel, WWII metal, bottles, munitions

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Ardagger, Austria

Danube low-water WWII cargo wreck

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Wreck timber

Old bottles

Fossils

Also reported: WWII metal, munitions.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS photo (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Cargo ship sunk at the end of WWII in the Danube near Ardagger, exposed by the 2026 drought along with ordnance and bones elsewhere on the river.

heute.at Aug 2026: lead photo shows the cargo wreck at Ardagger exposed by low water; same article reports the 1944 German fleet at Prahovo and Wehrmacht remains near BudapestView source →