The Ruhlander Schwarzwasser is a left-hand tributary of the

Black Elster The Black Elster or Schwarze Elster () is a long river in eastern Germany, in the states Saxony, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt, right tributary of the Elbe. Its source is in the Lusatia, Upper Lusatia region, near Elstra. The Black Elster flows ...

in the east German states of

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar ...

and

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 ...

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It rises in the Bernsdorf Forest (''Bernsdorfer Gemeindewald'') near , a village in the borough of Wiednitz (today part of Bernsdorf). As it makes its way westwards, this small river flows partly through the state of Brandenburg and partly through Saxony. In the Ruhland Heath (''Ruhlander Heide'') it forms the boundary between the two states. There it is also joined from the left by the ''Saleskbach'', which comes from the heath villages of , and . The Schwarzwasser then flows northwards through and . It discharges into the Schwarze Elster near the town of

Ruhland ( Sorbian: ''Rólany'') is a town in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, in Upper Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the river Schwarze Elster, 12 km southwest of Senftenberg. Ruhland station is a major railway junction, for f ...

. In Arnsdorf the Sieggraben dyke branches off on the left. It also enters the Black Elster, below Ruhland.

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{{reflist Rivers of Saxony Rivers of Brandenburg Rivers of Germany

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