| 11st | Top rivers of Germany |
| Spree/Sprjewja/Spréva | |
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 The Spree in Berlin, view eastwards from Friedrichstraße. |
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| Origin | Upper Lusatia |
| Mouth | Havel 52°32′10″N 13°12′31″E / 52.53611°N 13.20861°ECoordinates: 52°32′10″N 13°12′31″E / 52.53611°N 13.20861°E |
| Basin countries | Czech Republic, Germany |
| Length | ±400 km |
| Avg. discharge | 36 m³/s |
| Basin area | 10,105 km² |
The Spree (German pronunciation: [ʃpʁeː]; Upper Sorbian: Sprjewja, Lower Sorbian: Sprowja, Czech: Spréva) is a river in Saxony, Brandenburg and Berlin, Germany and in Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic. It is a left tributary of the Havel river and is approximately 400 kilometres (250 mi) in length.
Its source is located in the Lusatian Hills (Lausitzer Bergland) on the Czech border. After leaving the hills, the river crosses the old city of Bautzen/Budyšin, the centre of the Sorbs in Upper Lusatia. Further north the river enters the Spreewald, a large wetlands area, which belongs to Lower Lusatia. In its final portion the river runs through the city centre of Berlin to join the River Havel in Spandau, a western quarter of Berlin.
The name of the river Spree was by Thietmar of Merseburg recorded as Sprewa (Middle German sprejen, sprewen, High German sprühen meaning to spray water). People living at the Spree river (Anwohner) were in old German language (and are still) called Spreewaner.
Residents and tourists commonly attend events at Badeschiff, a pool placed within the Spree in Berlin.
Towns on the river's course include: Bautzen, Spremberg, Cottbus, Lübbenau, Lübben, Fürstenwalde and Berlin.
The river gave its name to several German districts:
 The Spree in Berlin's eastern harbour. |
 Showing the Palace of the Republic and the Berliner Dom |
 Near Museum Island |
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 River Spree in Berlin-Treptow, downstream view |
 Map of Germany, highlighting Spree |
SPREE, a river of Prussia, Germany, rising in the district of Upper Lusatia, in the kingdom of Saxony, close to the Bohemian frontier, and flowing nearly due north past Bautzen, Spremberg and Cottbus, dividing between the first two towns for a time into two arms. Below Cottbus the river splits into a network of channels, and swings round in a big curve to the west forming the peculiar marshy region (30 m. long and 3 to 6 m. wide) known as the Spreewald. Having returned to its predominant direction, it turns W.N.W., and passing FUrstenwalde and KUpenick threads Berlin in several arms, and joins the Havel at Spandau. Its length is 227 m. of which 112 are navigable; the area of its drainage basin is 3660 sq. m. It is connected with the Oder by the Friedrich Wilhelm or Miillrose Canal made in 1862-1868, which is 17 m. long, and by the Oder-Spree Canal, made in 1887-1888, and with the Havel by the BerlinSpandau Navigation Canal, 51 m. long, and by the Teltow Canal completed in 1905.
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