Dosse

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The Dosse is a river in the district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin in the northwestern part of Brandenburg, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Havel. The Dosse is 94 km long, with its source on the border between Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg, arising out of three small brooks that, after 4 kilometres, unite. It flows generally south, through Wittstock, Wusterhausen and Neustadt an der Dosse, before joining the Havel near Havelberg. The total catchment area is 1,268 km².

With the town of Wittstock on its banks, the Dosse was the site of the 1636 Battle of Wittstock between Sweden and an alliance between Saxony and The Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.