Key facts
- Native name
- Schwarze Elster ( German ) Carny Halšter ( Lower Sorbian ) Čorny Halštrow ( Upper Sorbian )
- Country
- Germany
- Location
- Upper Lusatia
- Elevation
- 317 m (1,040 ft)
- Length
- 179 km (111 mi)
- Basin size
- 5,541 km (2,139 sq mi)
- Progression
- ‹See Tfd› Elbe → North Sea
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Elbe-Elster District
- Image
- Schwarze Elster Boot 0912 d3.jpg
- Length
- 179
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- Commons category
- Schwarze Elster
- mouth of the watercourse
- Elbe
- lake on watercourse
- Geierswalder See
- watershed area
- 5704.9
- origin of the watercourse
- Elstra
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
The Black Elster or Schwarze Elster ( German: [ˌʃvaʁtsə ˈʔɛlstɐ] ; Lower Sorbian: Carny Halšter; Upper Sorbian: Čorny Halštrow) is a 179-kilometre (111 mi) long river in eastern Germany, in the states of Saxony, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt. It is a right tributary of the Elbe. Its source is in the Upper Lusatia region, near Elstra/Halštrow.
The Black Elster flows through the cities Kamenz/Kamjenc, Hoyerswerda/Wojerecy, Senftenberg/Zły Komorow, Lauchhammer, Elsterwerda, Bad Liebenwerda, Herzberg and Jessen. It flows into the river Elbe at Elster (Elbe), upstream from Wittenberg.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Black Elster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.