Pissa River

The pissa at Seljony boron ( Karalene / Luis Mountain ) near Tschernjachowsk

The pissa (Russian Писса ) is a river in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast, a right tributary of the Angrapa ( Angerapp ).

It originates from the Wystiter lake, river flows south past Nesterov ( Stallupönen or Ebenrode ), takes in Gusev ( Gumbinnen ) on the Krasnaya ( Rominte ) before just before Tschernjachowsk ( Insterburg ) in the Angrapa ( Angerapp ) flows, the few kilometers continue to cooperate with the Inster forms the Pregel.

The name derives from Old Prussian pisa / pissa: " groundless morass, where only small birch and spruce trees grow ", " swamp forest ".

Remarkable

According to one anecdote the inhabitants Gumbinnens the name of their river was uncomfortable, so she applied for a name change at the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. This decreed: Approved. Promote Urinoco, in allusion to the name of Alexander von Humboldt traveled from the South American Orinoco River. For unknown reasons, it did not come to a realization of the permit.

Maps from the 1930s show the headwaters east of Gumbinnen or Angerapp as horse -B. ( Rossbach ( pissa )) from.