The Große Lößnitz is a river in
Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; 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 landlocked state of ...
,
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 betwe ...
. It is a right tributary of the
Flöha
Flöha () is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. Flöha is situated on the confluence of the rivers Zschopau and Flöha, east of Chemnitz.
Flöha station connects the town to Dresden, Chemnitz, Freiberg, Annaberg-Buch ...
, which it joins near
Oederan
Oederan is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.
Geography
Oederan is situated 14 km southwest of Freiberg, 17 km east of Chemnitz and about 50 km west of Dresden.
The town includes the villages of Börni ...
. It is 17.8 kilometres long and the second longest tributary of the
Flöha
Flöha () is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. Flöha is situated on the confluence of the rivers Zschopau and Flöha, east of Chemnitz.
Flöha station connects the town to Dresden, Chemnitz, Freiberg, Annaberg-Buch ...
.
It rises near Großwaltersdorf at about 540 metres above sea level and runs in a west-nordwesterly direction. From below
Eppendorf to its mouth the waterbody has cut a roughly 100 metre deep valley into the terrain. Between the Lößnitz valley and the former halt of Metzdorf on the Hetzdorf and Großwaltersdorf narrow gauge railway, the river
meander
A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex bank ...
s markedly in a relatively wide and visibly waterlogged river meadow. The adjoining section to the mouth, on the other hand has a significantly steeper gradient and only a narrow floodplain.
Roughly 400 metres above its confluence with the Flöha and southwest of Görbersdorf, the Kleine Lößnitz empties into it from the right at 465 metres above sea level .
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See also
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List of rivers of Saxony
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Organizations
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References
Rivers of Saxony
Rivers of Germany
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