The Pleiße is a river of
Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a ...
and
Thuringia
Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million.
Erfurt is the capital and lar ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwee ...
.
The Pleiße has its source southwest of
Zwickau
Zwickau (; is, with around 87,500 inhabitants (2020), the fourth-largest city of Saxony after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz and it is the seat of the Zwickau District. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde (German: ' ...
at
Ebersbrunn, then flows through
Werdau,
Crimmitschau
Crimmitschau () is a town in the district of Zwickau in Saxony, Germany.
Geography
Crimmitschau lies on the river Pleiße in the northern foothills of the Erzgebirge.
Neighboring municipalities
Adjacent communities include: Zwickau, Dennherit ...
,
Altenburg
Altenburg () is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located south of Leipzig, west of Dresden and east of Erfurt. It is the capital of the Altenburger Land district and part of a polycentric old-industrial textile and metal production region betw ...
, and other towns and villages in Saxony and Thuringia, before flowing from the right into the White Elster in
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...
.
The river originally had a natural length of ; however, south of Leipzig, it has been straightened, which shortened it to around .
See also
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Kleine Pleiße
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List of rivers of Saxony
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
*
List of rivers of Thuringia
Notes
*The information in this article is based on and/or translated from its German equivalent.
External links
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Rivers of Saxony
Rivers of Thuringia
Rivers of Germany
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