Alte Elbe (lit. Old Elbe)^[1] is the German name for oxbows of the Elbe, i.e. cut-off meanders. With about 20 km (12 mi) the largest one of these is the Dornburger Alte Elbe, a river of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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It branches of the Elbe near Dornburg [de; nl],^[2] a district of Gommern. It flows into the Elbe at Magdeburg.^[3]

• List of rivers of Saxony-Anhalt