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{{short description|River in Germany}}
{{Infobox river
| name               = Schussen
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| image_caption      = Source of the Schussen River
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| pushpin_map        = Baden-Württemberg
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| pushpin_map_caption= Location of the mouth of the river in Baden-Württemberg
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| subdivision_name1  = [[Germany]]
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| subdivision_name2  = [[Baden-Württemberg]]
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| subdivision_name5  = {{hlist|[[Bad Schussenried]]|[[Aulendorf]]|[[Weingarten, Württemberg|Weingarten]]|[[Ravensburg]]|[[Meckenbeuren]]|[[Eriskirch]]}}
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| source1_location   = north of [[Bad Schussenried]], [[Baden-Württemberg]], [[Germany]]
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| source1_elevation  = {{convert|585|m|abbr=on}}
| mouth              = Eriskircher wetlands
| mouth_location     = [[Eriskirch]] in the [[Bodensee]]
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The '''Schussen''' is a {{convert|59|km|mi|adj=mid|-long|0}} tributary of [[Lake Constance]] ({{lang|de|Bodensee}}), which drains to the [[High Rhine]], in the southern portion of [[Upper Swabia]] in [[Baden-Württemberg]] ([[Germany]]).

== Course ==
{{stack|[[Image:D - Schussen - Einzugsgebiet.jpeg|thumb|Drainage basin of river Schussen]]}}
From its source, not far from the Lake Feder, around {{cvt|1.5|km}} north of [[Bad Schussenried]], where it runs down the watershed between the Rhine and the Danube, to the Bodensee.

The river passes south of [[Aulendorf]] through its own valley in the northern part of the [[Altdorf Forest]]s, through the Schussen ravine by [[Durlesbach]] and by Mochewangen ([[Wolpertswende]]), and from there into the broad Schussen Valley.  The valley was not created by the river itself, but rather during one of the [[Ice age|Ice Ages]].  From there it runs past the small city of [[Weingarten, Württemberg|Weingarten]], and, further, by Ravensburg and through the district of [[Meckenbeuren]], before it flows out into [[Obersee (Lake Constance)|Upper Lake Constance]] ({{lang|de|Obersee}}) in the vicinity of [[Eriskirch]], at the Eriskircher wetlands.

== Tributaries ==
Several streams enter the Schussen, including the [[Wolfegger Ach]], which originates between Binningen and Niederbiegen (both are part of the community of [[Baienfurt]]).  Other tributaries include the [[Scherzach]], [[Scharzach]], and the Ravensburg city creek.

== Oddities ==
In the course of its passage through the County of Biberach, the Schussen is the only stream that flows south to the Bodensee; all others flow north to the [[Danube]]. 
<gallery>
File:Schussentalbrücke Ravensburg 2.jpg|"Schussenbridge", Ravensburg
File:D-BW-Eriskirch-Baumgarten - Holzbrücke (1824) 002.JPG|Bridge of 1824, Baumgarten
File:D-BW-Eriskirch - Holzbrücke 1828 002.jpg|Bridge of 1828, Eriskirch
File:D-BW-Eriskirch - Hängesteg 001.JPG|Close to Lake Constance
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[List of rivers of Germany]]
**[[List of rivers of Baden-Württemberg]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline}}

{{Rhine Tributaries}}
{{Lake Constance}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Rivers of Baden-Württemberg]]
[[Category:Bodenseekreis]]
[[Category:Schussen basin| ]]
[[Category:Swabia]]
[[Category:Upper Swabia]]
[[Category:Rivers of Germany]]