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Lusatian Neisse - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 52°4′11″N 14°45′20″E / 52.06972°N 14.75556°E

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Lusatian Neisse
The Neisse near Skerbersdorf, Krauschwitz municipality
Oder and Neisse rivers
Location
Countries	Czech Republic Poland Germany
Cities	Liberec, Jablonec nad Nisou, Zittau, Görlitz/Zgorzelec, Gubin/Guben
Physical characteristics

Source	Jizera Mountains
• location	Nová Ves nad Nisou, Liberec Region, Czech Republic
• coordinates	50°43′47″N 15°13′44″E / 50.72972°N 15.22889°E / 50.72972; 15.22889
• elevation	655 m (2,149 ft)

Mouth	Oder
• location	Neißemünde, Brandenburg, Germany
• coordinates	52°4′11″N 14°45′20″E / 52.06972°N 14.75556°E / 52.06972; 14.75556
• elevation	32 m (105 ft)
Length	252 km (157 mi)
Basin size	4,403 km² (1,700 sq mi)

Discharge
• average	31 m³/s (1,100 cu ft/s)

Basin features
Progression	Oder→ Baltic Sea

The Neisse river near the village of Ratzdorf (D) at the confluence in the Oder river. View to Poland

The Lusatian Neisse^[1]^[2]^[3] (German: Lausitzer Neiße; Polish: Nysa Łużycka; Czech: Lužická Nisa; Upper Sorbian: Łužiska Nysa; Lower Sorbian: Łužyska Nysa), or Western Neisse, is a 252-kilometre (157 mi) river in northern Central Europe.^[4]^[5] It rises in the Jizera Mountains, near Nová Ves nad Nisou, at the Czech border becoming the Polish–German border for its remaining 197 kilometres (122 mi), to flow into the similarly northward-flowing Oder from the left.

Its drainage basin covers 4,403 km² (1,700 sq mi), of which 2,201 km² (850 sq mi) is in Poland, the rest is mainly in Germany.^[6] The river reaches the tripoint of the three nations by Zittau, a German town/city, after 54 kilometres (34 mi), leaving the Czech Republic.^[6] It is a left-bank tributary of the Oder, into which it flows between Neißemünde-Ratzdorf and Kosarzyn – north of the towns of Guben and Gubin. The river was a motivations to found Gubin as a craftmanship and trading port in the 13th Century.^[7]

Since the 1945 Potsdam Agreement in the aftermath of World War II, the river has partially demarcated the German-Polish border (along the Oder–Neisse line). The German population east of the river was expelled from Poland to Germany.

It is the longest and most watered of the three rivers of its non-adjectival name in both the main languages (the two other rivers being the Eastern Neisse (Polish: Nysa Kłodzka; German: Glatzer Neisse) and Raging Neisse (Polish: Nysa Szalona; German: Wütende Neiße or Jauersche Neiße)). It is usually simply referred to as the Neisse.

Name

Since the river runs through the historic region of Lusatia, the adjective "Lusatian" or "Western" before the name of the river Neisse is used whenever differentiating this border river from the Eastern Neisse (Polish: Nysa Kłodzka, German: Glatzer Neisse) and the smaller Raging Neisse (Polish: Nysa Szalona; German: Wütende Neisse or Jauersche Neisse), both in Poland.

Towns and villages

At Bad Muskau the Neisse flows through Muskau Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cities and towns on the river from source to mouth include:

Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic
Vratislavice, Czech Republic
Liberec, Czech Republic
Chrastava, Czech Republic
Hrádek nad Nisou, Czech Republic
Zittau, Germany
Bogatynia, Poland
Görlitz, Germany; Zgorzelec, Poland
Pieńsk, Poland
Bad Muskau, Germany; Łęknica, Poland
Forst (Lausitz), Germany
Guben, Germany; Gubin, Poland

Tributaries

Right bank:

Lubsza

Left bank:

Mandau

References

^ Tockner, Klement; Uehlinger, Urs and Robinson Christopher T. (2009). Rivers of Europe, Academic Press, London, Burlington and San Diego. ISBN 978-0-12-369449-2.
^ Fritsch-Bournazel, Renata (1992). Europe and German Unification, Berg, Oxford and Providence, RI, p. 106. ISBN 0 85496 979 9
^ McKenna, Amy (2014). Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, Britannica Guide to Countries of the EU, New York, p. 193. ISBN 978-1-61530-991-7.
^ Neisse River at www.britannica.com. Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.
^ Transnational Pilot River Basin at http://eagri.cz/public. Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.
^ ^a ^b Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Poland 2017, Statistics Poland, pp. 85–86
^ "Gubin - town defensive walls". Ancient and medieval architecture. Retrieved 2023-12-15.

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v t e Tributaries of the Oder
Main tributaries of the left bank	Budišovka Čermná Opava Psina (Cyna) Cisek Olszówka Stradunia Osobłoga Nysa Kłodzka Oława Ślęza Bystrzyca Średzka Woda Cicha Woda Kaczawa Ślepca Zimnica Dębniak Biała Woda Czarna Struga Śląska Ochla Zimny Potok Bóbr Olcha Racza Lusatian Neisse Finow Canal Gręziniec Gunica
Main tributaries of the right bank	Suchá Luha Jičínka Sedlnice Lubina Ostravice Olza Ruda Bierawka Kłodnica Gliwice Canal Czarnka Mała Panew Stobrawa Widawa Jezierzyca Barycz Krzycki Rów Obrzyca Jablonna Pliszka Ołobok Gryżyński Potok Warta Myśla Kurzyca Stubia Rurzyca Tywa Płonia Ina Gowienica
Distributary	East Oder (Regalica) West Oder Szczecin Lagoon Dziwna Świna Peene
Cities	Ostrava Bohumín Racibórz Kędzierzyn-Koźle Krapkowice Opole Brzeg Oława Jelcz-Laskowice Wrocław Brzeg Dolny Ścinawa Szlichtyngowa Głogów Bytom Odrzański Nowa Sól Krosno Odrzańskie Eisenhüttenstadt Frankfurt (Oder) Słubice Lebus Kostrzyn nad Odrą Cedynia Schwedt Gartz Gryfino Szczecin Police

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