List of old Rhine waters

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The list of old Rhine waters contains a selection of river arms and meanders of the Rhine , which have the names Alter Rhein , Altrhein , Altrheinarm , Altrheinzug , Altarm , Rheinaltarm or Restrhein , among others . Artificially created bodies of water ( quarry ponds ; e.g. the Altrheinsee ), which could be confused with old Rhine waters, are mentioned in the section connecting waters to the Rhine .

Rhine with old Rhine waterways between Germersheim and Speyer (viewed downstream); both in Rhineland-Palatinate (left) with Baden-Württemberg (right)

The arms and meanders were left behind as side arms of the Neurhein when the river bed was naturally shifted ; others were cut off when the river was artificially shifted , for example in the course of straightening the Rhine from 1817 under the direction of Johann Gottfried Tulla . These backwaters, together with the Neurhein, limit islands or peninsulas. The old rivers have sometimes lost all water-bearing connection to the Neurhein. Some are located in nature reserves, offer breeding grounds for water birds or serve as retention areas in the event of floods. Sometimes they can also be used for recreational canoeing and fishing is done there.

Old Rhine waters

Notes on finding old Rhine waters:

Some names of old Rhine waters contain the name of a nearby town or municipality, but others do not. In order to make it easy to find in any case, there is usually a localization key in front of each water body name - in alphabetical order and in italics . Below this are the geo-coordinates of the water body with details of its position in relation to the Rhine (l / r =  left / right ), then either the water body name itself in normal letters and further names of the water body in italics . Or there is only a reference to the name of another place name after the location key, under which the searched water body is listed in italics .

Old arm

see also (below) →  Rheinaltarm

Old Rhine

in the canton of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and in the state of Vorarlberg (Austria) - oxbow lakes of the Alpine Rhine:

in Germany:

Old Rhine

numerous old Rhine waters:

Old Rhine arm

Old Rhine or the rest of the Rhine

Tee of the Rhine canal from the old Rhine in southern Baden at the Märkt weir (from the north), lower right southern end of the Île de Rhin ,
in the background Basel (Switzerland)

Altrhein or rest Rhine -called Rhine section parallel to the 52.7 km long Grand Canal d'Alsace ( Grand Canal d'Alsace , Alsace, France) between the weir Märkt ( ⊙ , Weil am Rhein, district Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) and Village-Neuf ( Département Haut-Rhin; France) and the Breisach culture weir ( ⊙ ; District Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg; Germany) and Volgelsheim (Département Haut-Rhin; France) running as a border river; see also (above) →  at Märkt

Old Rhine loop

  • Ilvericher Altrheinschlinge;
    see above →  at Ilverich

Old move-in

Rest of the Rhine

see above →  Old Rhine or Rest of the Rhine

Rhine old arm

see also (above) →  old arm

Other old Rhine waters

Objects that are not called the Old Rhine or Old Rhine , for example , but are still former arms of the Rhine or part of such:

Rhine connection waters

Artificially created Rhine connection waters ( quarry ponds ) are listed here, which are neither old Rhine waters nor Rhine tributaries , could be confused with old Rhine waters and are directly connected to the Rhine or indirectly (via old Rhine waters) with it (sorted alphabetically according to the name of the river) :

  • Altrheinsee ( ⊙ ; l), near Eich , Alzey-Worms district, Rhineland-Palatinate (quarry pond, with quite a large portion of the Gimbsheimer Altrhein )
  • Eicher See ( ⊙ ; l), near Eich and Hamm am Rhein, Alzey-Worms district, Rhineland-Palatinate (quarry pond with marina including connection to the Rhine; originated from the beginning of the 20th century) see also (above) →  at Gimbsheim
  • Gold Canal ( ⊙ ; r), near stone walls and Illingen (Elchesheim-Illingen), Rastatt district, Baden-Württemberg; (Altrheinarm extended massively to the quarry pond) see also (above) →  at Elchesheim-Illingen
  • Knielinger See ( ⊙ ; r), near Knielingen and Maxau , in the NSG Altrhein Maxau , in the area of ​​the independent city of Karlsruhe , Baden-Württemberg (quarry pond, with a small part of the old Rhine or dredged up old Rhine) see also (above) →  near Karlsruhe
  • Silbersee ( ⊙ ; l), near Roxheim , Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate (quarry pond, inside the loop of the front and rear Roxheimer Altrhein ) see also (above) →  near Roxheim

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