Lužnice (river)

History and catchment area

The Lainsitz on the Czech side in Suchdol nad Lužnicí

The Lainsitz, the Czech Republic Lužnice, is a tributary of the Vltava River in Austria and the Czech Republic. The total length of around 200 km, of which 43 in Austria. However, the German designation was not Lainsitz but Luschnitz to 1918 in Bohemia.

Course

The Lainsitz rises in Freiwald on Aichelberglifte at Karlstift in the Waldviertel in 980 m above sea level. A.. After two kilometers, it changes with Pohoří na Šumavě ( Bucher ) on Czech territory and flows along the border to the north. In Joachimstal, a municipality part of St. Martin, she comes back to Austria. It flows around the Wachberg, come to the city Weitra, from Altweitra is their low gradient. In the town of Gmünd it is short again border river, at Breitensee it changes permanently in the Czech Republic. You, and its tributary, the Braunaubach of Schrems, mark the European watershed in the granite and gneiss plateau. Southeast this Talzugs drained the Danube basin deep into the Balkans to the Black Sea.

The next 100 miles to Plana nad Lužnicí she strives through the Trebon basin with a total of only 100 meters downhill. Above the Golden Majdalena channel is derived at the weir Pilař. The Lainsitz flows through the lying north of Trebon largest lake in Central Europe ( Rosenberger pond, 489 ha). To protect this pond before flooding the Nová Řeka was built, a channel that Lainsitzwasser in the Nežárka passes.

Then it cuts from Tábor to the mouth of a canyon -like valley with up to 50 meters depth the water's edge, the Central Bohemian Granite height.

North of Tyn nad Vltavou it opens at about 350 meters above sea level near Neznašov in Kořensko Dam, one of the pre-dam Orlik Dam, the Vltava River.

The Lainsitz is the most popular river for water tourism in the Czech Republic. With conventional water level it is of Suchdol nad Lužnicí traveled (125 km). The weirs Pilař, Dráchov, Čejnov and Cerveny Mlyn apply because of the strong counter-current underwater for water sports among the most dangerous in the Czech Republic.

Inflows

• Inflows in Austria are the Braunaubach and Romau, in the Czech Republic Dračice ( zip Bach ) (r ), the Koštěnický Potok ( Neumühlbach ) (r ) at Majdalena that Nežárka (r ) in Veseli nad Lužnicí and Smutná in Bechyně.

Conservation

Both in the entire river course on Austrian territory by the Waldviertel and in the further course of the Trebon Basin, the Lainsitz is an area according to the Ramsar Convention with the names Waldviertel pond, marsh and river landscape, pond area Trebon and bog Trebon.