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Spree

The Spree is a river in and the . With a length of approximately 400 kilometres, it is the main tributary of the River. The Spree is much longer than the Havel, which it flows into at -; the Havel then flows into the at .
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in Germany
  • Historically known as: “Sprěv’a”, “Sprěva”, “Sprēw”, and “Sprewa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Spandau Citadel and Charlotten Bridge.

Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The is a fortress in , , one of the best-preserved Renaissance military structures of Europe. Built from 1559–94 atop a medieval fort on an island near the meeting of the and the Spree, it was designed to protect the town of , which is now part of Berlin.

Bridge
Photo: Srittau, CC BY 4.0.
in links the on the west bank of the with the east bank. It was one of the few bridges over which some of the German garrison of Berlin were able to escape during the night of 1 May 1945 just hours before the city fell to Soviet forces.

Memorial
Photo: Der wahre Jakob, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Altstadt Spandau and Tiefwerder.

Quarter
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is the historic centre of the borough in the western suburbs of , situated on the right bank of the river by its confluence with the Spree tributary.

Neighborhood
Photo: Lienhard Schulz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
encompasses both a village and a Werder along the Havel River in the district of . While the village of , along with the neighboring southern port of Spandau, falls under the jurisdiction of the district of Spandau, the surrounding forested areas, meadows, and water areas of the Werder are administratively part of the district of .

Locality
Photo: Times, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Murellenberge, the Murellenschlucht and the Schanzenwald are a hilly landscape formed during the Weichselian Ice Age in the district of Ruhleben in the Westend part of the District of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. is situated 2½ km southeast of Spree.

Spree

Latitude
52.53622° or 52° 32′ 10″ north
Longitude
13.20883° or 13° 12′ 32″ east
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
Open location code
9F4MG6P5+FG
Geo­Names ID
3065504
Wiki­data ID
Q1684
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Spree” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Spree”
  • Arabic: “نهر شبريه”
  • Aragonese: “Spree”
  • Armenian: “Շփրե”
  • Arpitan: “Spree”
  • Asturian: “Spree”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şpre”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şpree”
  • Basque: “Spree ibaia”
  • Basque: “Spree”
  • Bavarian: “Spree”
  • Belarusian: “Рака Шпрэе”
  • Belarusian: “Шпрэе”
  • Breton: “Spree”
  • Bulgarian: “Шпрее”
  • Catalan: “Spree”
  • Chinese: “施普雷河”
  • Chuvash: “Шпрее”
  • Corsican: “Spree”
  • Croatian: “Spree”
  • Croatian: “Špreva”
  • Czech: “Spréva”
  • Danish: “Spree”
  • Dutch: “Spree”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر شبريه”
  • Esperanto: “Spree”
  • Estonian: “Spree”
  • Finnish: “Spree”
  • French: “Spree”
  • French: “Sprée”
  • Friulian: “Spree”
  • Galician: “Río Spree”
  • Galician: “Spree”
  • Georgian: “შპრეე”
  • German: “Spree”
  • Greek: “Σπρέε”
  • Hebrew: “שפרה”
  • Hungarian: “Spree”
  • Icelandic: “Spree”
  • Ido: “Spree”
  • Indonesian: “Spree”
  • Interlingua: “Spree”
  • Interlingue: “Spree”
  • Irish: “Spree”
  • Italian: “Sprea”
  • Japanese: “シュプレー川”
  • Kashubian: “Szprewa”
  • Kongo: “Spree”
  • Korean: “Sprěv’a”
  • Korean: “슈프레 강”
  • Korean: “슈프레강”
  • Ladin: “Spree”
  • Latin: “Sprea”
  • Latin: “Spreha”
  • Latin: “Suevum”
  • Latvian: “Šprē”
  • Ligurian: “Spree”
  • Limburgan: “Spree”
  • Lithuanian: “Šprė”
  • Low German: “Spree”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Sprjewja”
  • Luxembourgish: “Spree”
  • Macedonian: “Шпре”
  • Malagasy: “Spree”
  • Malay: “Spree”
  • Marathi: “स्प्री नदी”
  • Mazanderani: “شپری”
  • Minangkabau: “Spree”
  • Narom: “Spree”
  • Neapolitan: “Spree”
  • Northern Frisian: “Spree”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Spree”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Spree”
  • Norwegian: “Spree”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Spree”
  • Persian: “شپری”
  • Picard: “Spree”
  • Piemontese: “Sprea”
  • Piemontese: “Spree”
  • Polish: “Sprewa”
  • Polish: “Szprewa”
  • Polish: “Szprowa”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Spree”
  • Portuguese: “Spree”
  • Romanian: “Râul Spree”
  • Romansh: “Spree”
  • Russian: “Спрева”
  • Russian: “Шпре”
  • Russian: “Шпрее”
  • Sardinian: “Spree”
  • Scots: “Spree”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Spree”
  • Serbian: “Spree”
  • Serbian: “Шпреја”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Spree”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Špreja”
  • Sicilian: “Sprea”
  • Slovak: “Spréva”
  • Slovenian: “Spree”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شپری چایی”
  • Spanish: “Río Esprea”
  • Spanish: “rio Spree”
  • Spanish: “río Spree”
  • Spanish: “Spree”
  • Swahili: “Spree”
  • Swedish: “Spree”
  • Swiss German: “Spree”
  • Tagalog: “Spree (ilog)”
  • Tagalog: “Spree”
  • Tajik: “Шпрее”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำชเปร”
  • Turkish: “Spree”
  • Ukrainian: “Шпрее”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Rěka”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Spree”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sprjewja”
  • Urdu: “شپری (دریا)”
  • Urdu: “شپری”
  • Uzbek: “Shpre”
  • Uzbek: “Spree”
  • Venetian: “Spree”
  • Vietnamese: “Spree”
  • Vlaams: “Spree”
  • Volapük: “Spree”
  • Walloon: “Spree”
  • Welsh: “Afon Spree”
  • Welsh: “Spree”
  • Western Frisian: “Spree”
  • Western Panjabi: “سپری”
  • Wolof: “Spree”
  • Wu Chinese: “施普雷河”
  • Zulu: “Spree”

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