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The bend became too shallow in summer to be navigable, and so between 1701 and 1709 was cut off from the main waterway near the town of Lobith and replaced by the Pannerdens Kanaal. The Oude Rijn, which forms the border between the Dutch town of Lobith and the GermanThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east town of Elten , was still used to relieve the Rhine in times of high water until the middle of the twentieth century. Opposite the townA town is usually an urban area which is not considered to rank as a city. As with cities, there is no standard universal definition of a town: the criterion in use in any country is likely to arise from national law, custom or administrative convenience. of Angeren, the Pannerdens Kanaal connects to the Oude Rijn, after which the river continues towards the seaThe North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. A bay of the North Sea is Skagerrak, bet as Nederrijnsatellite image of the Rhine- Waal fork showing the beginning of the Nederrijn branch (purple). Arnhem Nederrijn ("Nether Rhine") is the name of the Dutch part of River Rhine from the confluence of the cut-off Rhine bend of Oude Rijn and the Pannerdens Ka (Nether Rhine).