Leipzig River Network

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The evolution of the Leipzig river network over time, in 1780, 1908 and 2000.

The Leipzig River Network is a river system located in Leipzig, Germany. The city of Leipzig lies in a basin at the confluence of the White Elster, the Pleiße and the Parthe. Due to numerous floods making Leipzig a flood zone in the Leipzig Riverside Forest, many channels and diversion beds were created over time to minimize the floodplain and thus make it a habitable zone. A system of complex braided channels (anastomosing rivers) forming an inverted river delta was born.

The river network

First order natural rivers are:

• The White Elster (Weiße Elster)
• The Pleiße, a right-bank tributary of the Elster south of the city center
• The Parthe, a right-bank tributary of the Elster north of the city center
• The Luppe, a right bank tributary of the Saale, which leaves the White Elster on its left bank north of Leipzig
• The Little Luppe (Kleine Luppe), a secondary left-bank arm of the Elster
• The Nahle, a secondary branch on the left bank of the Elster north of the Kleine Luppe

The channels are:

• The Lower Elster Diversion (Elsterflutbett), a secondary arm of the right bank
• The upper diversion of the Elster (Elsterhochflutbett), a secondary arm of the right bank during floods, south of the lower diversion
• The Elster Basin (Elsterbecken) in the city center
• The reach of the Elster (Elstermühlgraben), a secondary arm of the right bank
• The Upper Pleiße Diversion (Pleißehochflutbett), a secondary right-bank branch of the Pleiße
• The lower Pleiße diversion (Pleißeflutbett) between the Pleiße and its confluence in the lower Elster diversion (Elsterflutbett)
• The Pleiße reach (Pleißemühlgraben), a small secondary arm on the right bank
• The Karl-Heine Canal (Karl-Heine-Kanal), the part of the canal from the Elster to the Saale which is located in Leipzig.
• The new Luppe (Neue Luppe), a secondary arm of the left bank to the north, which becomes the Luppe and flows into the Saale
• The Paußnitz, a stream in the Leipzig riverside forest on the left bank of the Elster between the Elster and the Pleiße. It is a secondary arm which starts from the upper diversion to flow into the lower diversion of the Elster.
• The Batschke, a canal between the Pleiße and Cospudener See, built in the 16th century and historically named Elsterfloßgraben.

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  The White Elster, which flows into the Saale
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  The Elster Basin
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  Lower Elster Diversion
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  The Nahle, a secondary arm of the left bank to the north
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  The Kleine Luppe, arm of the left bank
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  The Pleiße and its Drainage basin, which flows into the Elster
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  The Pleiße reach
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  Hundewasser canal
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  Kuhburger Wasser, canal between the Kleine Luppe and the Elster basin
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  The Neue Luppe
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  The Batschke, between the Pleiße and Cospudener See

See also

• Central German Lake District
• Leipzig Riverside Forest

External links

• Andreas Bergner / Heinz Peter Brogiato, Wasserstadt Leipzig, 2015, in German
• Gewässer in Leipzig (Water bodies in Leipzig) at the web page leipzig.de, in German
• Historic maps (Meilen- & Messtischblätter & Äquidistantenkarte von Sachsen (1780–1942)) at: deutschefotothek.de
• historische und heutige Leipziger Gewässer (Previous and today's Leipzig water bodies) at: leipzig-lexikon.de, in German

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