Isar

The Isar is a river of Bavaria, affluent of the the Danube. Its name - of Celtic origin - means torrent , root which one finds in particular for the Isere and Isarien.

Isar takes its source in the North-West of the Austria, penetrates quickly in Germany where it drains the Bavarian plate, in particular sprinkling Munich, Freising and Landshut. It joined Right Bank of the the Danube in Deggendorf, to 2282 km of the mouth of the river.

Its principal affluents are Jachen, Loisach and Amper on Right Bank and Würm on left bank.

Water of Isar is first of all retained in the artificial lake of Sylvenstein (where was absorbed then rebuilt on the new bank the village of Fall, production of Hydroélectricité and tank of Drinking water for the town of Munich). Another artificial lake in the North-East of Munich is used with the breeding as fish.

Isar was used formerly for the floatation of wood, the tree trunks being assembled to form a raft directed using a rudder. This activity exists today only as leisure: rafts especially built to this end transport groups and a jazz band or Bavarian traditional music since a point of loading located upstream at the foot of the the Alps (photo of right-hand side).

These last years, the municipality of Munich undertook great work of renaturalisation of the bed of Isar. One could observe during a few years a beaver (see) alive near the Deutsches Museum in full center town.

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