Bridge near Doetinchem
|- left||Waalse Water|
|- right||Bocholter Aa → Aa Strang, Schlinge (river) → Bielheimerbeek|
|- location||near Raesfeld, Westphalia, Germany|
|- elevation||55.5 m (182 ft)|
|- location||near Doesburg, in the IJssel, Gelderland, Netherlands|
|- elevation||5 m (16 ft)|
|Length||81.7 km (51 mi)|
|Basin||1,214 km2 (469 sq mi)|
|- average||10.5 m3/s (371 cu ft/s)|
Oude IJssel (Dutch, pronounced [ˌʌudə ˈʔɛisəl]), literally old IJssel, or Issel (German) is a river in Germany and the Netherlands approximately 82 km long. It is a right tributary of the river IJssel. Oude IJssel means "Old IJssel" in Dutch; the Oude IJssel was the upper course of the IJssel until the connection with the Rhine was dug, possibly in the Roman era.
Since that moment the Rhine became the largest contributor to the flow of the IJssel, although only a relatively small amount of the total Rhine flow made its way into the IJssel system. Various tributaries can sometimes add quite some water to the total flow of the river, for example the Berkel and the Schipbeek. The IJssel river is the only branch of the Rhine delta that consumes tributary rivers instead of giving birth to distributary rivers. The latter only happens at the very last part of the river, where the small IJssel Delta is created.
The Oude IJssel begins near Borken in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows southwest until it nearly reaches the Rhine near Wesel, then it turns northwest. After Isselburg it crosses the border with the Netherlands and enters the province of Gelderland. It flows through Doetinchem and joins the IJssel in Doesburg.
- Beheersgebied Oude IJssel, Waterschap Rijn en IJssel (in Dutch)
|This article related to a river in North Rhine-Westphalia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.|
|This article related to a river in the Netherlands is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.|