Großer Graben and Schiffgraben

Großer Graben / Schiffgraben
Country	Germany
States	Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt
Basin features
Main source	86 m (282 ft) 52°03′N 10°42′E / 52.050°N 10.700°E / 52.050; 10.700
River system	Weser and Elbe
Physical characteristics
Length	46 km (29 mi)

Großer Graben and Schiffgraben together are an artificial waterbody with ambiguous flows in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, partly forming the border of both Länder. It is fed by lateral sources and by the humidity of the wetland it passes. The western part of this waterway is an affluent of river Ilse, part of Weser bassin, the eastern part an affluent of river Bode, part of Elbe bassin. The top, almost without flow, is a pseudo-bifurcation and part of the section called Schiffgraben. The limit of names is situated east of the pseudo-bifurcation

The names tell, that in old ages it was intended to use it as a waterway.

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