Reuss (river)
The Reuss is a river in Switzerland. With a length of 158 kilometres (98 mi) and a drainage basin of 3,425 square kilometres (1,322 sq mi), it is the fourth largest river in Switzerland (after the Rhine, Aar and Rhone). The highest point of the drainage basin is the summit of Dammastock, at 3,630 metres.
Rising in the Gotthard massif, the Reuss runs from the Urserental and continues through the Schöllenen Gorge and under the legendary Devil's Bridge (Teufelsbrücke) at St. Gotthard Pass.
It runs through Lake Lucerne (German Vierwaldstättersee) and the city of Lucerne, where a pioneering needle dam (just upstream from the Spreuerbrücke) maintains the water level.
It receives the Kleine Emme from Entlebuch at Emmen and Lorze from Lake Zug at Hünenberg. Near Bremgarten, the river is dammed forming Flachsee.
The Reuss, the Aar, and the Limmat come together near Brugg at the "Watercastle of Switzerland". After the confluence the river continues as the Aar, which flows into the Rhine, which runs through Germany into the North Sea.
Bridges
Localities
Places and municipalities at the Reuss river, from source to mouth (incomplete):
Tributaries
Reuss and its tributaries, with length and catchment area, from mouth to source (incomplete):
- Reuss River - 158 km - 3,425 km² (at Gebenstorf into Aar)
- Mülibach - 8 km² (at Mellingen)
- Jonen - 46 km²
- Lorze - 390 km² (at Reussspitz, Hünenberg)
- Haselbach
- Rigi-Aa - 18.6 km² (at Arth into Lake Zug)
- Hüribach - 12.8 km² (into Ägerisee)
- Sinserbach - 16 km² (at Sins)
- Ron - 22.5 km² (at Gisikon)
- Kleine Emme - 58 km - 477 km² (at Emmenbrücke)
- Ränggbach
- Rümlig
- Wigger
- Fontannen
- Entlen
- Grosse Entlen - 16 km
- Eibach
- Rotbach
- Kleine Entlen
- Headwaters
- Wiss Emme
- Waldemme
- Lake Lucerne - 113.6 km²[1] - 2,238 km²[2] (at Lucerne, outflow Reuss River)
- Würzenbach - 7.7 km - 39 km² (at Lucerne)
- Sarner Aa/Dreiwässerkanal/Aa/Lauibach - 28 km - 267 km² (at Alpnachstad)
- Grosse Schliere - 17 km - 28.8 km² (above Wichelsee)
- Grosse Melchaa
- Melbach - 18 km² (at Ennetmoos)
- Engelberger Aa - 50 km - 230 km² (at Buochs)
- Muota - 316 km² (at Brunnen)
- Isitalerbach - 60 km² (near Isleten)
- Altdorfer Dorfbach
- Reuss River - 832 km² (at Flüelen/Seedorf into Lake Lucerne)
- Schächen - 109 km² (at Attinghausen)
- Alpbach - 32 km² (at Erstfeld)
- Kärstelenbach - 116 km²
- Meienreuss - 71 km²
- Göschenenalpreuss - 92 km² (at Göschenen)
- Voralpreuss
- Unteralpreuss (at Andermatt)
- Oberalpreuss (above Andermatt)
- Headwaters at Hospental:
- Furkareuss - 12 km
- Witenwasserenreuss
- Muttenreuss
- Tiefenbach
- Sidelenbach
- Gotthardreuss
Notes
- ^ Lake's surface area
- ^ Catchment area at outflow including lake's surface area
External links
- Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Reuss_River Reuss River] at Wikimedia Commons
- Current discharge, waterlevels, temperature: