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Lusatian Neisse

River in Central Europe

Summary

River in Central Europe

Field	Value
name	Lusatian Neisse
native_name
image	Neisse bei skerbersdorf 640x480.jpg
image_caption	The Neisse near Skerbersdorf, Krauschwitz municipality
map	Oder-Neisse line between Germany and Poland.jpg
map_caption	Oder and Neisse rivers
subdivision_type1	Countries
subdivision_name1
subdivision_type2	Cities
subdivision_name2	Liberec, Jablonec nad Nisou, Zittau, Görlitz/Zgorzelec, Gubin/Guben
length	252 km
discharge1_avg	31 m3/s
source1	Jizera Mountains
source1_location	Nová Ves nad Nisou, Liberec Region, Czech Republic
source1_coordinates
source1_elevation	655 m
mouth	Oder
mouth_location	Neißemünde, Brandenburg, Germany
mouth_coordinates
mouth_elevation	32 m
progression
basin_size	4403 km2

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

The Lusatian Neisse (; ; ; ; ), or Western Neisse, is a 252 km river in northern Central Europe. It rises in the Jizera Mountains, near Nová Ves nad Nisou, at the Czech border becoming the Polish–German border for its remaining 197 km, to flow into the similarly northward-flowing Oder from the left.

Its drainage basin covers 4403 km2, of which 2201 km2 is in Poland, the rest is mainly in Germany. The river reaches the tripoint of the three nations by Zittau, a German town/city, after 54 km, leaving the Czech Republic.

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 (; ) 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.
[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/408303/Neisse-River ''Neisse River''] at www.britannica.com. Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.
[http://eagri.cz/public/web/file/37537/PRB_Neisse_Final_Report__1_.pdf ''Transnational Pilot River Basin''] at http://eagri.cz/public. Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.
[http://stat.gov.pl/download/gfx/portalinformacyjny/en/defaultaktualnosci/3328/2/17/1/statistical_yearbook_of_the_republic_of_poland_2017.pdf Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Poland 2017], [[Central Statistical Office (Poland). Statistics Poland]], pp. 85–86
"Gubin - town defensive walls".

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