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Rivers that flow into the sea are sorted geographically, along the coast. Rivers that flow into other rivers are sorted by the proximity of their points of confluence to the sea (the lower in the list, the more upstream). Some rivers (the Meuse, for example) do not flow through Germany themselves, but they are mentioned for having German ...
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Near Krefeld, the river crosses the Uerdingen line, the line which separates the areas where Low German and High German are spoken. The Rhine River is crossed by several ferries, including the one between Bad Honnef and Rolandseck, where the Lohfelderfähre district is situated. Until the early 1980s, industry was a major source of water pollution.
Since 1992, the Main has been connected to the Danube via the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal and the highly regulated Altmühl river. The Main has been canalized with 34 large locks (300 × 12 m or 984 × 39 ft) to allow CEMT class V vessels (110 × 11.45 m or 360.9 × 37.6 ft) to navigate the total length of the river. The 16 locks in the adjacent ...
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High Rhine (German: Hochrhein, pronounced [ˈhoːxˌʁaɪn] ⓘ; kilometres [a] 0 to 167 of the Rhine) [2] is the section of the Rhine between Lake Constance (Bodensee) and the city of Basel, flowing in a general east-to-west direction and forming mostly the Germany–Switzerland border.
There are five Ruhr reservoirs on the river, often used for leisure activities. Hengsteysee between Dortmund and Hagen, surface area: 1.36 km 2, height of the weir 4.5 m; Harkortsee between Herdecke and Wetter; surface area: 1.37 km 2, height of the weir 7.8 m; Kemnader See between Witten and Bochum; surface area: 1.25 km 2, height of the weir 2 m
The river rises from the Ederkopf mountain in the Rothaar mountain range in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, near the springs of the Lahn and Sieg rivers. However, unlike the Lahn and Sieg, which are both tributaries of the Rhine , the Eder flows east and north, into the river Fulda at Edermünde , south of Kassel .