Overview
- SGD Süd approved a Mainz funeral firm to release fast‑dissolving ash urns between Rhine kilometres 500 and 511.5.
- The permit allows up to two trips per week with up to five urns per trip, released from a moving vessel by a licensed funeral director.
- A water‑rights permit is required for placing urns in a river under the new rules.
- The September law made Rhineland‑Palatinate the first German state to allow river interments on the Rhine, Mosel, Lahn and Saar.
- An implementing regulation under formal review will define specific allowed zones, with officials indicating Mosel rules may differ due to weirs, and SGD Nord has not yet issued comparable permits.