The Ihle is a river of

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. A former tributary of the

Elbe The Elbe ( ; ; or ''Elv''; Upper Sorbian, Upper and , ) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Republic), then Ge ...

, it discharges into the

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(and its predecessor ''Ihlekanal'') since the 1860s.

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