Zwittebach

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The Zwittebach ( Czech Svitávka ) is a right tributary of the Ploučnice ( Polzen ) in Germany and the Czech Republic.

Course

It has its source in the Zittau Mountains west of Jonsdorf the hollow stone on the southern slope of the 651.6 -meter-high mountain book. The Zwittebach flows south and 300 meters northwest of the popular climbing rock Falkenstein on German Krkavčí kameny ( Rabenstein ) on the Czech side it exceeds the Lauschehochmoor the border.

At the Svitávka lie in the Lusatian Mountains places Dolni Svetla (low light wood ), Mařenice ( Großmergthal ) and Mařeničky ( Kleinmergthal ) where the Hamerský Potok ( Hammerbach ) to flows. Below, the river is dammed in two small storage ponds and then flows through the Zwittebach Kunratice u Cvikova ( Kunnersdorf ). In Lindava ( Lindenau ) of the Cvikov ( Zwickau ) opens to coming Boberský Potok ( Bober Bach).

The river section between Svitava ( Zwitte ) Velenice ( Wellnitz ) and Nové Zákupy ( New Imperial City ) is bounded by sandstone cliffs, in which artificial caves were built and on which are the ruins of the castle Velenice.

The most important spot on the river is the city Zákupy ( Imperial City ). The Svitávka still flows through Božíkov ( Götzdorf ) and ends after about 38 kilometers above Heřmaničky ( Hermsdorf ), six kilometers south-east of Ceska Lipa in the Ploučnice.

More

At the end of the 19th century there were plans for a continuation of the Zittau Narrow Gauge Railway in the valleys of Zwittebaches and Woberbaches to Svor ( Röhrsdorf ).

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  • River in Europe
  • River in Saxony
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Buchberg (Zittau Mountains) Svor (Česká Lípa District)
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