Dove Elbe

{{Short description|River in Germany}}

{{Expand German|topic=geo|date=September 2011|Dove Elbe}}

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| subdivision_name2 = Hamburg

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The Dove Elbe ({{audio|De-Dove Elbe.ogg|German pronunciation}}) is a closed anabranch of the Unterelbe, the lower part of the river Elbe (near Hamburg, Germany).

The inflow has been blocked by a dike since 1438. The lower end was shortened by a redirection of the Norderelbe in 1579.

File:Gedenktafel Dove-Elbe-Schleuse (Hamburg-Neuengamme).ajb.jpg

Before the Neuengammer Blaue Brücke (lit. Blue Bridge), there's the Neuengammer branch canal going off to the left. From 1940 to 1942, prisoners of the Neuengamme concentration camp had to dig this canal and widen the Dove Elbe from here.{{Cite book |last=Whatmore-Thomson |first=Helen J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yb71DwAAQBAJ |title=Nazi Camps and their Neighbouring Communities: History, Memory, and Memorialization |date=2020-08-07 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-250697-9 |pages=16–30 |language=en}} The bricks produced in the camp's clinker factory were to be transported to Hamburg in barges along the waterway created in this way.

Its Low German name translates to "deaf Elbe"; it is etymologically unrelated to the bird.