Krückau is a river in the federal state of

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in the north of

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. It flows into the river

Elbe The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) 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 Repu ...

near

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. The lower part between the Elbe and

Elmshorn Elmshorn (; nds, Elmshoorn) is a town in the district of Pinneberg in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. It is 30 km north of Hamburg on the small river Krückau, a tributary of the Elbe, and with about 50,000 inhabitants is the sixth-largest to ...

is navigable but not classified.Längen der Hauptschifffahrtswege der Binnenwasserstraßen des Bundes, Liste 4
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) (in German)

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