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{{Infobox river
| name               = Scheur
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| name_other         = (The Rip)
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| image              = Maassluis Nieuwe waterweg.jpg
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| image_caption      = Near Maassluis
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| map_caption        = <small>Northwest part of the Rhine-Meuse delta showing the Scheur (s).</small>
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| subdivision_name1  = [[Netherlands]]
| subdivision_type2  = Province
| subdivision_name2  = [[South Holland]]
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| source1            = [[Nieuwe Maas]] <br /> [[Oude Maas]]
| source1_location   = Vlaardingen
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| mouth              = [[Nieuwe Waterweg]]
| mouth_location     = Rotterdam
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The '''Scheur''' ({{IPA|nl|sxøːr|-|Nl-scheur.ogg}}; Dutch for "The Rip") is a branch of the [[Rhine]]-[[Meuse]] [[river delta|delta]] in [[South Holland]], [[Netherlands]], that flows west from the [[Confluence (geography)|confluence]] of the [[Oude Maas]] and [[Nieuwe Maas]] branches past the towns of [[Rozenburg]] and [[Maassluis]]. It continues as the [[Nieuwe Waterweg]] (New Waterway) to the [[North Sea]].

Originally, the Scheur was the northern branch of the river around Rozenburg island and curved south a few kilometres past Maassluis to join the Nieuwe Maas again in the Maasmond ("Mouth of Meuse") [[estuary]] near [[Brielle|Den Briel]]. When the Nieuwe Waterweg was completed in 1872, the Scheur was dammed off and connected to the east end of the Nieuwe Waterweg to form the new [[River engineering#Channelization|channelized]] main mouth of the Rhine-Meuse delta.

[[Image:Beneeden rivier de Maas.jpg|thumb|none|300px|The Scheur and Nieuwe Maas in 1769.]]
[[Image:Brielse Maas1.png|thumb|none|300px|The same region today.]]

{{Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta}}

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[[Category:Rivers of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta]]
[[Category:Geography of Rotterdam]]
[[Category:Maassluis]]
[[Category:Rivers of South Holland]]
[[Category:Rivers of the Netherlands]]