Poessnitz (Drava)

This article describes the tributary of the Drau, the tributary of the Saggau see Pößnitzbach (Saggau) .

Pößnitz / Pesnica Pößnitzbach, Pessnitz [bach]
Pößnitztal near Pernitzen
Data
Water code	AT : HZB 2-220-232; STM 6799
location	Windische Bühel ; Styria , Slovenia
Drain over	Drau  → Danube  → Black Sea
River basin district	Outside
source	in Pößnitz ( Glanz an der Weinstrasse ) 46 ° 40 ′ 9.3 ″  N , 15 ° 30 ′ 58.1 ″  E
Source height	approx.  430  m above sea level A.
muzzle	at Gorišnica coordinates: 46 ° 24 '1 "  N , 16 ° 2' 37"  O 46 ° 24 '1 "  N , 16 ° 2' 37"  O
Mouth height	approx.  200  m. i. J.
Height difference	approx. 230 m
Bottom slope	approx. 3.3 ‰
length	69.7 km
Communities	Leutschach an der Weinstrasse , Kungota , Pesnica , Lenart , Ormož

The Pößnitz (also Pößnitzbach , at the beginning of a tributary also called Glanzbach or Pessnitz in Slovenian Pesnica ) is a 69 km long left tributary of the Drau (Drava) in the Windischen Büheln .

The Pößnitz rises in the north of the Pößnitz cadastral community , a place on the Austrian-Slovenian border near Glanz an der Weinstrasse and flows increasingly southwards via Kungota (Sankt Kunigund) , Pesnica (Pößnitzhofen) , Lenart (St. Leonhard) to the confluence with the Drava Ormož (Friedau) on the Pettau field (Ptujsko polje) .

In old documents the brook is also called “Untere Pesnitz” (with a long s “Peſnitz” written).

The "Untere Peſnitz" in the 18th century (below the middle, right).

The eponymous Pößnitzbach zur Saggau (formerly: "upper Pesnitz") also rises near Pößnitz. The fact that two streams on both sides of a valley crossing bear the same name is common with old names on traffic routes in the Alpine region, see Tauernbach . The valley of the two Pößnitz brooks marks the border of the Possruck (Kozjak) to the north-east upstream Windischen Büheln (Slovenske Gorice) .