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Glatzer Neisse
River
Country Poland
Regions Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Opole Voivodeship
Source
 - location Jodłów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
 - coordinates 50°9′45″N 16°45′8″E / 50.1625°N 16.75222°E / 50.1625; 16.75222
Mouth Oder
 - location Rybna, Opole Voivodeship, Poland
 - coordinates 50°49′9″N 17°39′30″E / 50.81917°N 17.65833°E / 50.81917; 17.65833
Length 182 km (113 mi)
Basin 4,565 km2 (1,763 sq mi)
Discharge mouth
 - average 574 m3/s (20,271 cu ft/s)
Oder basin, Nysa Kłodzka in red

The Glatzer Neisse (German: Glatzer Neiße, Polish: Nysa Kłodzka, Czech: Kladská Nisa) is a river in southwestern Poland, a left tributary of the Oder, with a length of 182 km (21st longest) and a basin area of 4,566 km² (3,744 in Poland).

Floods

The Glatzer Neisse originates in the Śnieżnik mountain range of the Sudetes, near the border with the Czech Republic. It is partially regulated. The river has often left its banks and flooded nearby cities, at times destroying them completely. City chronicles from Kłodzko mention floods in the following years:

  • 14th century: 1310
  • 15th century: 1441, 1464, 1474
  • 16th century: 1500, 1522, 1524, 1560, 1566, 1570, 1587, 1589, 1591, 1598,
  • 17th century: 1602, 1603, 1605, 1610, 1611, 1612, 1625, 1646, 1652, 1655, 1689, 1693, 1696
  • 18th century: 1702, 1703, 1713, 1724, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1755, 1763, 1767, 1775, 1785, 1787, 1789, 1799
  • 19th century: 1804, 1806, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1831, 1850, 1854, 1879, 1881, 1883, 1891, 1897
  • 20th century: 1900, 1903, 1907, 1938, 1952, 1997, 1998

Towns

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