Erft
Sign in to saveThe Erft () is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows through the foothills of the Eifel, and joins the Lower Rhine (left tributary). Its origin is near Nettersheim, and its mouth in Neuss-Grimlinghausen south of the Josef Cardinal Frings Bridge. The river is long, which is significantly shorter than it was originally. Due to the open-pit mining of lignite in the Hambacher Loch, the flow of the river had to be changed.
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- Erft
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- Cours of the river Erft
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- Lower reaches of the Erft near Bergheim
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- Country
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- Germany
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- State
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- North Rhine-Westphalia
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- Reference no.
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- DE: 274
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- (incl. Kuhbach)
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- Southeast of Engelgau as the KuhbachSigned source of the Erft near Holzmülheim
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- Rhine near Neuss-Grimlinghausen
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- at Neubrück gauge
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- Record low: (in 16.07.2007)Average low:
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- Average high: Record high: (in 04.06.1984)
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- Swist, Gillbach, Norfbach
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The Erft () is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows through the foothills of the Eifel, and joins the Lower Rhine (left tributary). Its origin is near Nettersheim, and its mouth in Neuss-Grimlinghausen south of the Josef Cardinal Frings Bridge. The river is long, which is significantly shorter than it was originally. Due to the open-pit mining of lignite in the Hambacher Loch, the flow of the river had to be changed.
The Erft gave its name to the town of Erftstadt, through which it flows, as well as to the Rhein-Erft district.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Erft” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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