Eastern Neisse

Template:Infobox river The Eastern Neisse,<ref name=Plokhy/> also known by its Polish name of Nysa Kłodzka (Template:Langx, Template:Langx), is a river in southwestern Poland, a left tributary of the Oder, with a length of 188 km (21st longest) and a basin area of 4,570 km² (3,742 in Poland).<ref>Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Poland 2017, Statistics Poland, p. 85-86</ref>

Prior to World War II it was part of Germany. During the Yalta Conference it was discussed by the Western Allies as one possible line of the western Polish border. Attempts were made to negotiate a compromise with the Soviets on the new Polish-German frontier; it was suggested that the Eastern Neisse be made the line of demarcation. This would have meant that (East) Germany could have retained approximately half of Silesia, including most of Wrocław (formerly Breslau). However the Soviets rejected the suggestion at the Potsdam Conference and insisted that the southern boundary between Germany and Poland be drawn further west, at the Lusatian Neisse,<ref>Brogan, Patrick (1990). The Captive Nations: Eastern Europe, 1945-1990. Avon books, p. 18. Template:ISBN</ref><ref name="Plokhy">Plokhy S.M. Yalta: The Price of Peace, New York: Viking, 2010.</ref> in some way reintroducing the border to the place from the beginnings of Polish statehood, i.e. west of Legnica Town, important for Bolesław IV the Curly and Henry the Bearded, two Polish Princepses.<ref>"U źródeł Polski (do roku 1038" (Foundations of Poland (until year 1038)), Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2002, Template:ISBN</ref><ref>Benedykt Zientara, Henryk Brodaty i jego czasy, Wydawnictwo TRIO, Warszawa 1997, Template:ISBN</ref>

Floods

The Eastern Neisse originates in the Králický Sněžník Mountains of the Sudetes, near the border with the Czech Republic. It is partially regulated. The river has often burst its banks and flooded nearby towns, at times destroying them completely. Town 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
• 21st century: 2024

Towns

Until 1945, these communities were situated on German territory and largely populated by Germans before they were driven out at the end of the Second World War. German names are indicated in italics.

• Bardo (Wartha)
• Bystrzyca Kłodzka (Habelschwerdt)
• Kamieniec Ząbkowicki (Kamenz N.S.)
• Kłodzko (Glatz)
• Lewin Brzeski (Löwen)
• Międzylesie (Mittelwalde) - both names mean "middle of the woods"
• Nysa (Neiße)
• Otmuchów (Ottmachau)
• Paczków (Patschkau)

See also

• Lusatian Neisse (Lužická Nisa, Nysa Łużycka)
• Raging Neisse (Nysa Szalona)
• Nysa Mała (Little Neisse)
• Rivers of Poland
• Geography of Poland