diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 4e3daa8..6fa9e37 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: NRWgauges
 Title: Web-scraping gauge (meta-)data from various providers in NRW, Germany
-Version: 0.3.5
+Version: 0.3.6
 Date: 2024-12-27
 Authors@R: 
     person("Dimitri", "Falk", , "falk.dimitri@eglv.de", role = c("aut", "cre"))
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 8826a92..ad47f07 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@
 export(get_eglv_gauges)
 export(get_eglv_measurements)
 export(get_eglv_meta)
+export(get_rv_gauges)
 export(get_rv_meta)
diff --git a/R/get_rv_gauges.R b/R/get_rv_gauges.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b5c299c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/get_rv_gauges.R
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#' Get RV gauge metadata (simplified), locations and latest measurements
+#'
+#' @return Sf object.
+#' @export
+#'
+#' @examples
+#' \dontrun{
+#' get_rv_gauges()
+#' }
+get_rv_gauges <- function() {
+
+  # debugging ------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  # check arguments ------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  base_url <- "https://www.talsperrenleitzentrale-ruhr.de/online-daten/gewaesserpegel/"
+
+  # query definition
+  query <- list("tx_onlinedata_gauges%5baction%5d" = "json",
+                "tx_onlinedata_gauges%5bcontroller%5d" = "Gauges",
+                "type" = "863")
+
+  # send request
+  r_raw <- httr::GET(base_url, query = query)
+
+  # parse response: raw to json
+  r_json <- httr::content(r_raw, "text", encoding = "UTF-8")
+
+  gauges <- jsonlite::fromJSON(r_json) |>
+    tibble::as_tibble()
+
+  # fix columns
+  gauges[["datetime"]] <- gauges[["datetime"]] |> as.POSIXct(tz = "etc/GMT-1")
+
+  gauges[["value"]] <- gauges[["value"]] |> as.numeric()
+
+  gauges
+}
diff --git a/man/get_rv_gauges.Rd b/man/get_rv_gauges.Rd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aa4ed09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/get_rv_gauges.Rd
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/get_rv_gauges.R
+\name{get_rv_gauges}
+\alias{get_rv_gauges}
+\title{Get RV gauge metadata (simplified), locations and latest measurements}
+\usage{
+get_rv_gauges()
+}
+\value{
+Sf object.
+}
+\description{
+Get RV gauge metadata (simplified), locations and latest measurements
+}
+\examples{
+\dontrun{
+get_rv_gauges()
+}
+}