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Oude Rijn ("Old Rhine") is the name of a long former bend in river Rhinemarker in the Dutchmarker province of Gelderland.

In summer the bend became too shallow to be navigable, and so between 1701 and 1709 was cut off from the main waterway near the town of Lobithmarker and replaced by the Pannerdens Kanaalmarker. The Oude Rijn, which forms the border between the Dutch town of Lobith and the Germanmarker town of Eltenmarker, was still used to relieve overflow of the Rhine in times of flooding until the middle of the twentieth century. Opposite the town of Angerenmarker, the Pannerdens Kanaal connects to the Oude Rijn, after which the river continues towards the seamarker as Nederrijn (Lower Rhine).


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