Schipbeek

Schipbeek with Buurser Beek, Alstätter Aa and Aa Ahaus

The Schipbeek is a tributary of the River IJssel. The river is, but only in its lower reaches to other sections of the river hot Ahaus Aa, Aa and Alstätter Buurser Beek. From its source in western North Rhine -Westphalia to the estuary in the Netherlands he changed his name three times so:

The entire length of the river (ie Schipbeek with Buurser Beek, Alstätter Aa and Aa Ahaus ) is 86 kilometers, lie 27 km in North Rhine -Westphalia. The entire catchment area covers 352 km ², of which 151 km ² fall on North Rhine -Westphalia.

The source is located southeast of Ahaus and southwest of Legden in Liesner forest to 59 meters. From the source of the river flows as Ahaus Aa in a northwesterly direction to Ahaus and then called Alstätter Aa. The river crosses the eponymous place Alstatte and in hair mill crosses the border into the Netherlands, where he is initially called Buurser Beek. At the Buurser Beek limits the places Buurse, Haaksbergen and Neede. From Twentekanaal at which the flow from the east crosses coming from the German -Dutch border here, the river flows as Schipbeek about Bathmen further west and flows to the south of Deventer in the IJssel.