Draining Into The North Sea
The rivers in this section are sorted south-west (Netherlands) to east (Danish border).
- Maas (main branch at Stellendam, Netherlands)
- Niers (in Gennep, Netherlands)
- Rur/Roer (in Roermond, Netherlands)
- Wurm (near Heinsberg)
- Inde (in Jülich)
- Rhine/Rhein (main branch at Hoek van Holland, Netherlands)
- Lippe (in Wesel)
- Alme (in Paderborn)
- Emscher (near Dinslaken)
- Ruhr (in Duisburg)
- Volme (near Hagen)
- Lenne (near Hagen)
- Möhne (in Neheim-Hüsten)
- Erft (in Neuss)
- Wupper/Wipper (in Leverkusen)
- Sieg (in Bonn)
- Agger (in Siegburg)
- Nister (in Wissen)
- Ahr (near Sinzig)
- Wied (in Neuwied)
- Moselle (in Koblenz)
- Elzbach (in Moselkern)
- Alf (in Alf)
- Lieser (near Bernkastel-Kues)
- Salm (near Klüsserath)
- Kyll (near Trier-Ehrang)
- Saar (near Konz)
- Nied (near Rehlingen-Siersburg)
- Prims (in Dillingen)
- Blies (in Sarreguemines)
- Schwarzbach (near Zweibrücken)
- Sauer (in Wasserbillig)
- Prüm (near Echternach)
- Nims (in Irrel)
- Our (in Wallendorf)
- Prüm (near Echternach)
- Lahn (in Lahnstein)
- Aar (in Diez)
- Weil (in Weilburg)
- Dill (in Wetzlar)
- Ohm (in Cölbe)
- Nahe (in Bingen)
- Alsenz (near Bad Kreuznach)
- Glan (near Bad Sobernheim)
- Selz (in Ingelheim)
- Main (in Mainz)
- Nidda (in Frankfurt-Höchst)
- Wetter (in Niddatal)
- Kinzig (in Hanau)
- Tauber (in Wertheim am Main)
- Fränkische Saale (in Gemünden am Main)
- Regnitz (in Bamberg)
- Pegnitz (in Fürth)
- Rednitz (in Fürth)
- Fränkische Rezat (in Georgensgmünd)
- Schwäbische Rezat (in Georgensgmünd)
- Itz (in Baunach)
- Red Main (near Kulmbach)
- Nidda (in Frankfurt-Höchst)
- Neckar (in Mannheim)
- Jagst (near Bad Friedrichshall)
- Kocher (in Bad Friedrichshall)
- Enz (in Besigheim)
- Glems (near Markgröningen-Unterriexingen)
- Murr (in Marbach am Neckar)
- Rems (in Remseck)
- Fils (in Plochingen)
- Queich (near Germersheim)
- Pfinz (near Germersheim)
- Lauter (in Lauterbourg)
- Murg (near Rastatt)
- Sauer (in Seltz, France)
- Acher (near Lichtenau)
- Rench (near Lichtenau)
- Kinzig (near Kehl)
- Schutter (near Kehl)
- Elz (near Lahr)
- Wiese (near Basel)
- Wutach (in Waldshut-Tiengen)
- Lippe (in Wesel)
- IJssel (into the IJsselmeer near Kampen, Netherlands)
- Berkel (in Zutphen, Netherlands)
- Oude IJssel/Issel (in Doesburg, Netherlands)
- Zwarte Water (into the IJsselmeer near Genemuiden, Netherlands)
- Vechte (near Zwolle, Netherlands)
- Dinkel (in Neuenhaus)
- Vechte (near Zwolle, Netherlands)
- Ems (near Delfzijl, Netherlands)
- Hase (in Meppen)
- Weser (near Bremerhaven)
- Hunte (in Elsfleth)
- Lesum (in Bremen-Vegesack)
- Wümme (in Ritterhude)
- Aller (near Verden (Aller))
- Böhme (near Rethem)
- Leine (near Schwarmstedt)
- Innerste (near Sarstedt)
- Rhume (in Northeim)
- Oder (Harz) (in Katlenburg-Lindau)
- Örtze (in Winsen)
- Fuhse (in Celle)
- Oker (in Müden (Aller))
- Schunter (near Braunschweig)
- Werre (in Bad Oeynhausen)
- Diemel (in Bad Karlshafen)
- Fulda (in Hannoversch Münden)
- Eder (in Edermünde)
- Schwalm (near Fritzlar)
- Haune (in Bad Hersfeld)
- Eder (in Edermünde)
- Werra (in Hannoversch Münden)
- Hörsel (near Eisenach)
- Ulster (in Philippsthal)
- Elbe (near Cuxhaven)
- Oste (near Otterndorf)
- Stör (near Glückstadt)
- Alster (in Hamburg)
- Bille (near Hamburg)
- Ilmenau (near Winsen (Luhe))
- Jeetzel (in Hitzacker)
- Löcknitz (near Dömitz)
- Elde (near Lenzen)
- Aland (in Schnackenburg)
- Stepenitz (in Wittenberge)
- Havel (near Havelberg)
- Dosse (near Havelberg)
- Rhin (near Warnau)
- Plane (near Brandenburg)
- Nuthe (in Potsdam)
- Spree (in Berlin-Spandau)
- Dahme (in Berlin-Köpenick)
- Ohre (near Burg)
- Saale (in Barby)
- Bode (in Nienburg (Saale))
- Wipper (Saale) (near Bernburg)
- Weiße Elster (near Halle (Saale))
- Parthe (in Leipzig)
- Pleiße (in Leipzig)
- Weida (near Gera)
- Unstrut (near Naumburg)
- Wipper (Unstrut) (near Heldrungen)
- Gera (in Straußfurt)
- Ilm (in Großheringen)
- Schwarza (in Schwarza)
- Mulde (in Dessau)
- Zwickauer Mulde (near Colditz)
- Chemnitz (near Wechselburg)
- Freiberger Mulde (near Colditz)
- Zschopau (near Döbeln)
- Zwickauer Mulde (near Colditz)
- Schwarze Elster (near Wittenberg)
- Weißeritz (in Dresden)
- Wild Weißeritz (in Freital)
- Wesenitz (in Pirna)
- Ohře/Eger (in Litoměřice, Czech Republic)
- Vltava (in Mělník, Czech Republic)
- Berounka (near Prague, Czech Republic)
- Mže/Mies (in Plzeň, Czech Republic)
- Berounka (near Prague, Czech Republic)
- Eider (in Tönning)
- Treene (in Friedrichstadt)
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Famous quotes containing the words draining, north and/or sea:
“The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
—Philip Guedalla (18891944)
“...stare into the lake of sunset as it runs
boiling, over the west past all control
rolling and swamps the heartbeat and repeats
sea beyond sea after unbearable suns;
think: poems fixed this landscape: Blake, Donne, Keats.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (19131980)