The Danube Sinkhole is an incipient underground stream capture in the Upper Danube Nature Park. Between Immendingen and Möhringen and also near Fridingen (Tuttlingen), the water of the Danube sinks into the riverbed in various places. The main sinkhole is next to a field named Brühl between Immendingen and Möhringen.
Sinkhole in the Danube near Möhringen
Completely dry Danube riverbed
Sink hole on the southern bank of the Danube, at the main sinkhole site below Immendingen
Sign in Immendingen. Translation: "Sinkhole – Here the Danube sinks dry on about 155 days per year"
Stream capture, river capture, river piracy or stream piracy is a geomorphological phenomenon occurring when a stream or river drainage system or watershed is diverted from its own bed, and flows instead down the bed of a neighbouring stream. This can happen for several reasons, including:Tectonic earth movements, where the slope of the land changes, and the stream is tipped out of its former course
Natural damming, such as by a landslide or ice sheet
Erosion, either
Headward erosion of one stream valley upwards into another, or
Lateral erosion of a meander through the higher ground dividing the adjacent streams.
Within an area of karst topography, where streams may sink, or flow underground and then reappear in a nearby stream valley
Glacier retreat
The River Thames as it passes through the Goring Gap