The Inde (; ) is a small river in Belgium and in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
The Inde is a left (western) tributary of the
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.
History
Its name is of
Celtic languages origin:
Inda. The Inde has a counterpart, a "small Inde", in
France: the
Andelle, which is a 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 (=
Meuse)"). 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.
See also
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List of rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia
