Hanekenfähr, Recreation area in Emsland, Germany.

Hanekenfähr is a stretch of the Ems between Schepsdorf, Darme and Elbergen where the river and the Dortmund-Ems Canal share one bed for about two kilometres below the Gleesen lock. The Ems-Vechte Canal also begins here, and several marinas hold leisure and sports boats. A hotel, campsite and holiday-home settlement occupy the tongue of land between river and canal.

In the 19th century, Hanekenfähr operated as a ferry crossing point on the Ems River, serving as an important passage for people and goods. Later, the development of the canal system transformed it into a key hub of the region's water transport network.

The name Hanekenfähr recalls the ferry (Fähre) that crossed the Ems here until the 19th century; older spellings include Hanneken- and Haneckenfähr. Today the jetties at Hanekenfähr are the starting point for regular short excursion trips by small passenger boats, and numerous leisure and sports boats lie in the surrounding harbours.

The Ems is reached through a heritage-listed lock from 1876, and the barrage below the Dortmund-Ems Canal keeps the canal's water level constant. The Ems forms the municipal boundary between Emsbüren and Lingen, crossed at a bridge by the Rheine–Emden Süd railway and the L 40 road. An industrial estate north of Hanekenfähr, with the Lingen and Emsland nuclear plants and the Benteler steelworks, brings noise that reduces the area's value for recreation.

The Emswehr at Hanekenfähr is a weir, not a waterfall: it dams the Ems below the Dortmund-Ems Canal to keep the canal's water level constant. The Ems itself is reached through a heritage-listed lock built in 1876. The Ems-Vechte Canal also begins here, now used only by leisure craft.