List of old waterbodies of the Rhine

As a result of natural translocation, the ox-bows and meanders of the Rhine riverbed remain as side arms of the New Rhine (Neurhein); others were cut off as a result of artificial river canalisation, such as in the wake of the canalisation of the Rhine (Rheinbegradigung) from 1817 under the direction of Johann Gottfried Tulla.

The old river courses have mostly lost their water-bearing link to the New Rhine.

Many lie within nature reserves, offer breeding sites for water birds or act as washlands during flooding.

In order to make it easy to find in every case, the nearby settlement is usually written in alphabetical order and italics before each waterbody name as a means of locating it.

see also (below) → Rheinaltarm in the canton of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and in the state of Vorarlberg (Austria) – old arms of the Alpine Rhine: in Germany: numerous old Rhine waterbodies: Section of the River Rhine called the Altrhein or Restrhein parallel to the 52.7-kilometre-long Grand Canal d'Alsace (Rheinseitenkanal), between the Stauwehr Märkt (47°37′2″N 7°34′24″E / 47.61722°N 7.57333°E / 47.61722; 7.57333 (Altrhein or Restrhein: starts roughly above Stauwehr Märkt); Weil am Rhein; Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg; Germany) and Village-Neuf (department of Haut-Rhin; France) and the Kulturwehr Breisach (48°1′57″N 7°34′12″E / 48.03250°N 7.57000°E / 48.03250; 7.57000 (Altrhein or Restrhein: Ends roughly below the Kulturwehr Breisach); Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg; Germany) and Volgelsheim (department of Haut-Rhin; France) running as a border river;see also (above) → near Märkt see above → Altrhein or Restrhein see also (above) → Altarm Waterbodies that are not called e.g. Alter Rhein or Altrhein, but are nevertheless old arms of the Rhine are: These are artificially created waterbodies alongside the Rhine (such as quarry ponds), which are neither old arms nor tributaries of the Rhine, but which could be confused with such and are directly or indirectly linked to the Rhine.