Oude IJssel

Issel source at Raesfeld

The Issel is a 81.5 km long river, which in Raesfeld, North Rhine -Westphalia, springs and in Doesburg in the Dutch province of Gelderland as Oude IJssel in the IJssel ( Gelderland IJssel ) opens.

River Name

In Germany, the Issel river section has several names: In the course of its source to the so-called Möllmannsbrücke the river is called Westphalian Issel. From there until the bear lock in the Wesel district Lackhausen he called Upper Issel. The Middle Issel ranges from there to the confluence of the Little Issel. The remaining river from there to the Dutch border is called the Lower Issel. The sections referred to the respective adjacent floodplains form the corresponding area of water and soil associations in whose jurisdiction the flood protection is.

Geography

Course

The Issel rises in the district of Borken in the northwest of the Hohe Mark Nature Park - Westmünsterland. Your source is located south of Borken in the sparsely populated northern part of the municipality of Raesfeld to 55.54 m above sea level. NHN.

First, the Issel flows through meadows and fields in a southwesterly direction through the gently undulating landscape of the Natural Park to near Wesel Wesel to kinking nearly perpendicular before the town on the Bears lock on the flow direction of the trench along the Drevenacker Landwehr to the northwest. By Hamminkeln, after she leaves, Isselburg and Anholt, both located in the district of Borken district of Wesel, they reached the Dutch border at Gendringen and is called henceforth Oude IJssel. Under this name, it flows through the church Oude IJsselstreek by Doetinchem and flows Doesburg to 9.3 m above sea level. NHN in the IJssel. The IJssel emerged as Flussbifurkation ( branch ) from the breakdown Rdens channel connecting den Rijn with the Lower Rhine (Rhein).

Catchment area and length

Until the German -Dutch border the catchment area of ​​360.88 km ² Issel is large, and until then the German section of the river is about 55 km long. The catchment area extending beyond the limit subsequent Oude IJssel has to lie in Doesburg mouth of the IJssel 847.12 km ² in area, and the Dutch part of the river is 26.5 km long. From the Issel source to the mouth of the Oude IJssel the catchment area is 1208 km ² in total, and the river is 81.5 km long completely. The total flow distance Issel and, from Doesburg, the IJssel to the confluence with the Ketelmeer is 178 km long ( other reportedly 177.8 km ), and this river has a 4269.645 km ² large catchment area.

The above-ground catchment area of ​​the Issel is not always the hydrologically effective because the groundwater flow is directed partially transverse to the Issel to the Rhine in the west area. Thus, the river loses water flowing down.

Tributaries

In Germany the Drevenacker Landwehr, the Small Issel and the Wolf strand Issel flow to. In the Netherlands these are the Aa - strand ( lower reaches of the Bocholt Aa ) and Sloerstrank, Akkermansbeek, Bielheimerbeek, Waalse Water and Hoge Leiding. Of these, the most important tributary is the Bocholt Aa flows Issel in the Netherlands Ulft, community Oude IJsselstreek than Aa strand. This has a larger catchment area than the Issel ( 536 km ² compared with 360.88 km ² ) and executes significantly more water than these (6.0 m³ / s compared with 3.0 m / s at the muzzle point). Nevertheless, the flow downstream will still be called Oude IJssel.

The Issel / Oude IJssel flows further to the north west, and marks the course of the Issel fracture, a former stream channel of the Rhine and the Lippe.

Attractions and characteristics

The river forms the boundary between the Lower Rhine language ( kleveländischen, south) and Westphalia (west Münsterland ) language area, so that the boundary between the Lower Saxony and Lower Franconia.

Along the river course to various tourist attractions:

  • Raesfeld with wonderful gardens. The castle houses the Academy of the craft as a training establishment for conservation. In the castle grounds there is an information and visitor center.
  • In the village of alder, a municipality part of Raesfeld, is the natural monument Femeiche, whose age is estimated to be over 1,500 years.
  • Monastery church in Hamminkeln - Marienthal. The monastery was founded by 1258, the church was built from 1345. Since 1986, also brothers live again by the Carmelite Order.
  • House Esselt with Otto Pankok Museum in Hunxe - Drevenack
  • Bears lock in Wesel- Lackhausen. From here, the moats of the city Wesel were flooded from the early 17th century over the basin trench.
  • Good Bossigt in the Wesel district Lackhausen, birthplace of Konrad Duden. The house serves as a conference hotel.
  • Ringberg Castle near Hamminkeln. Since its renovation in 1989, the castle serves as a registry office and house the studio center Derick Baegert society.
  • The remarkable town of Werth.
  • The ancient city of Anholt with preserved ramparts, historical town hall and the St. Pancras church be painted
  • Anholt Castle in Anholt. The imposing castle of the Princes of Salm- Salm houses a museum with collection of porcelain, tapestries, rich furnishings and paintings and has extensive parks.
  • DRU Cultuurfabriek in Ulft. The former iron works was reopened as a cultural center in 2009.

A designated as ijsselroute bike path near the river of Anholt about Gendringen, Doetinchem to Doesburg and continue along the IJssel to Zutphen. The ijsselroute is part of a cross-border cycle route network, which also includes aa, berkel and slingeroute belong. The cycling routes offer six tours and can be combined together.

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