Lossa (Unstrut)

The mouth of the Lossa in the Unstrut

The Lossa is a 43 km-long right tributary of the Unstrut in central Thuringia. The name is derived from the Indo-European, and include the word salmon.

Course

It rises on the western end of the area of the former municipality Lossa in Burgenland district, in Saxony -Anhalt. The source is located in the Finn, a mountain range of the Thuringian Basin. It flows initially to the south by Rastenberg, Mannstedt, then west through Guthmannshausen, Olbersleben, Großneuhausen and Frohsdorf. The Lossa opens in Leubingen in the Unstrut and shares with her ​​the riverbed to Griefstedt where they are in turn divided into a left and a right Unstrutarm Lossaarm. Permanently flowing rivers both together only behind Gorsleben.

Inflows

Lossa -Bach (right)

More

Because of her at the turn of 2002/2003 brought up snowmelt and the resulting generated backlog of Unstrut she was wearing significantly to their high water at Leubingen.