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The Leine ( Old Saxon Lagina) is a river in Thuringia and Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a left tributary of the River Aller (and so of the River Weser as well) and long. The river's source is located close to the town of Leinefelde in Thuringia. About downriver, the river enters Lower Saxony and runs northwards.
Important towns upstream to down along its course are Göttingen, Einbeck, Alfeld and Gronau, before the river enters Hanover, the largest city on its banks. Downstream some north of Hanover, near Schwarmstedt, the river joins the Aller and reaches the North Sea via the Weser. Only in its northern (lower) reaches is it navigable by today's smallest commercial carriers, though in the past it served as an important pre-railway barge transport artery as far upriver as Göttingen.
The river is somewhat polluted from industries and so not used for drinking water but the pollution was never severe enough to prevent fish from living in it. Like many western rivers since the 1960s, it has enjoyed successively cleaner waters since the implementation of environmental controls. People enjoy sport fishing from small boats and from along the banks, although yields are normally low.
At at least one point (Göttingen) the river is partially diverted into a canal that runs more or less parallel to the river.
In his 1986 bestseller Red Storm Rising, author Tom Clancy uses the Leine as a major obstacle to the Soviet Union's Red Army in its drive to the River Rhine and the North Sea ports of the Netherlands and Belgium through West Germany.
Leine (Eine) is a river of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Leine (Helme) is a river of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Leine may refer to the following rivers:
- Leine, left tributary of the Aller
- Leine (Eine)
- Leine (Helme)
Usage examples of "leine".
Her hand closed around the cloch, the sleeve of her leine falling down to show the scars of her arm.
The woman could have been no more than a year or two older than Jenna, with a child nuzzling at her breast under the red-dyed leine of mourning, and a boy that might have been three years old at her side.
It was trapped between the sluggish Leine on one side and an ordinary Hanover street on the other, and so it would never have gardens or even a decent forecourt.
The Leine, which flanked Hanover on the south and east, had always had some part to play in keeping the place from being sacked and burned.
The Leine threaded its way through this in whatever way was most advantageous to the engineers.
Caroline felt pent between a high road on one side, and the Leine on the other.
It gave him no cause for complaint though, as it displayed the shape of her legs more than a leine and plaid.
She wore that filmy, ragged thing beneath her leine, but it scarcely impeded his view of her.
The leine was constructed with an embroidered neck opening cut in the very center, then folded in half with the open seams joined to a place under the arms, forming a slender sheath.
As she worked, her fine, loose leine swirled luxuriously about her, its brightly dyed indigo a reflection of her eyes.
She noted that borrowed clothes were laid out: a woolen brat, a linen leine, a sturdy pair of knit hose and serviceable deerskin brogans.
Then Matern gives a peasant a piece of advice in Mandelsloh -- that makes him a Lower Saxon peasant, they had been following the River Leine together.
He dressed in a new leine and a mantle large enough to wrap four times around his body.
Her leine was open at the throat and her hair tumbled unbound around her shoulders.
Over his knee-length leine was a brat of woven wool dyed a brilliant Munster blue and trimmed with wolf fur.