Length 26 km River system Elbe | Country Germany | |
Location Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Main source at the Gielau Mill near Schnega
ca. 41 m (135 ft) River mouth near Wustrow into the Jeetzel
ca. 17 m (56 ft) | ||
The Wustrow Dumme (German: Wustrower Dumme) is a roughly 26-kilometre (16 mi) long, left, western tributary of the River Jeetzel (also: Jeetze) in Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony (Germany).
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Map of Wustrower Dumme, Germany
Name
The river name, Dumme, means something like Eichenbach or "oak stream", because Dumme goes back to the Old Slavic word, dabu, meaning "oak". It is thus unrelated to the German word "dumm", which means "dumb".
Course
The Dumme runs through the border region between Altmark in the south and Wendland in the north; in places it forms the border river between Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. During its course it passes Bergen an der Dumme, before discharging into the northward-flowing Jeetzel near Wustrow, hence the first part of the name.
References
Wustrow Dumme Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA