Inde
River in Belgium and Germany
title: "Inde" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["international-rivers-of-europe", "rivers-of-the-ardennes-(belgium)", "rivers-of-north-rhine-westphalia", "rivers-of-belgium", "rivers-of-liège-province", "raeren", "rivers-of-the-eifel", "rivers-of-germany"] description: "River in Belgium and Germany" topic_path: "geography/germany" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inde" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary River in Belgium and Germany ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Inde |
| native_name | fr |
| image | Inde in Kornelimuenster 31-01-2005.jpg |
| image_caption | Inde in Aachen-Kornelimünster |
| map | Indeverlauf.png |
| map_caption | Map of the Rur Basin, including the Inde |
| source1_location | Hautes Fagnes |
| mouth_location | Rur |
| mouth_coordinates | |
| subdivision_type1 | Countries |
| subdivision_name1 | Germany and Belgium |
| length | 54.1 km |
| source1_elevation | ±400 m |
| basin_size | 374 km2 |
| progression | |
| :: |
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| name = Inde | native_name =fr | image = Inde in Kornelimuenster 31-01-2005.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = Inde in Aachen-Kornelimünster | map = Indeverlauf.png | map_size = | map_alt = | map_caption = Map of the Rur Basin, including the Inde | source1_location = Hautes Fagnes | mouth_location = Rur | mouth_coordinates = | subdivision_type1 = Countries | subdivision_name1 = Germany and Belgium | length = 54.1 km | source1_elevation = ±400 m | discharge1_avg = | basin_size = 374 km2 | progression = The Inde (; ) is a small river in Belgium and in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Indeauen2.jpg" caption="The Inde in Weisweiler"] ::
The Inde is a left (western) tributary of the Rur/Roer, in eastern Belgium and in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany.
Its source is near Raeren, in Eastern Belgium. The Inde runs through Aachen-Kornelimünster, Eschweiler, and Inden. Its mouth is on the Rur near Jülich. Because of lignite opencast mining, a section of the course was diverted near Inden-Lamersdorf in 2003.
Tributaries of the Inde include the streams: Omerbach, Otterbach, Saubach, Vichtbach, and Wehebach.
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Brücke_über_den_Iterbach.jpg" caption="''Itertalviadukt'' viaduct of the [[Vennbahn]] railway over the Inde"] ::
History
Its name is of Celtic origin: Inda. The Inde has a counterpart, a "small Inde", in France: the Andelle, which is a 55 km long river in the French département Seine-Maritime and whose original name was Indella.
The suffix -ella is an example for Celtic river names comparing for instance Mosella (= Moselle, i.e. "small Mosa (= Maas)"). For the name "Inde", the Indoeuropean stem *wed (= water) is supposed, like in words like Italian "onda" and French "onde" (= wave).
The Inde acquired historical importance when Emperor Louis the Pious founded the Kornelimünster Abbey monastery along one of its old courses in 815.
References
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