Pissa (Angrapa)
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Pissa Писса |
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 The Pissa near Seljony Bor (Karalene / Luisenberg) not far from Chernyakhovsk |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | RU : 01010000212104300010114 | |
| location | Kaliningrad Oblast ( Russia ) | |
| River system | Pregel | |
| Drain over | Angrapa → Pregel → Baltic Sea | |
| source |
Wystiter See 54 ° 27 ′ 7 ″ N , 22 ° 42 ′ 3 ″ E |
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| Source height | 172.4 m | |
| muzzle | in the Angrapa coordinates: 54 ° 38 '10 " N , 21 ° 54' 25" E 54 ° 38 '10 " N , 21 ° 54' 25" E |
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| Mouth height | 14.3 m | |
| Height difference | 158.1 m | |
| Bottom slope | 1.6 ‰ | |
| length | 98 km | |
| Catchment area | 1440 km² | |
| Drain |
MQ |
8.49 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Russkaja ( heather water ), Krasnaya | |
The Pissa ( Russian Писса ) is a river in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad , a right tributary of the Angrapa ( Angerapp ).
It rises from the Wystiter See , flows south past Nesterow ( Stallupönen or Ebenrode ), takes on the Krasnaja ( Rominte ) in Gussew ( Gumbinnen ) before it flows into the Angrapa ( Angerapp ) shortly before Chernyachovsk ( Insterburg ) , which is a few kilometers continues to form the Pregel together with the Inster .
The name is derived from the Prussian pisa / pissa : " bottomless morass where only small birch and spruce trees grow", "quarry forest".
Remarkable
According to an anecdote, the inhabitants of Gumbinnen were uncomfortable with the name of their river, which is why they asked the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV to change their name. This ruled: Approved. Recommend Urinoco , alluding to the name of the South American Orinoco River, which Alexander von Humboldt traveled to .
Maps from the 1930s show the upper reaches east of Gumbinnen and the Angerapp as Roß-B. ( Roßbach (Pissa) ).
literature
- August Eduard Preuss : Prussian country and folklore or description of Prussia . Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1835, p. 36.
- Biolik, Maria: Hydronymia Europaea, The names of flowing waters in the Pregel river basin, Stuttgart 1996
- Gerullis, Georg: The old Prussian place names, Berlin, Leipzig 1922
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Pissa in the State Water Register of the Russian Federation (Russian)
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
