Zwiesel

Town
	Coat of arms
	Location of Zwiesel within Regen district
	Coordinates: 49°01′N 13°14′E / 49.017°N 13.233°ECoordinates: 49°01′N 13°14′E / 49.017°N 13.233°E
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Niederbayern
District	Regen
Subdivisions	8 districts
Government
• Mayor (2016–22)	Franz Xaver Steininger (Ind.)
Area
• Total	41.14 km2 (15.88 sq mi)
Highest elevation	750 m (2,460 ft)
Lowest elevation	580 m (1,900 ft)
Population (2016-12-31)
• Total	9,500
• Density	230.9/km2 (598/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	94227
Vehicle registration	REG
Website	www.zwiesel.de

Zwiesel, Czech: Svízel, is a town in Regen. The name of the town comes from the Bavarian word stem "zwisl" which refers to the form of a fork. The fork of the rivers Großer Regen and Kleiner Regen and the land that is between these two rivers were called Zwiesel.

Geography

The town of Zwiesel is in an valley basin at the foot of the mountain range formed by the peaks of the Großer Arber (1,456 m), Großer Falkenstein (1,315 m) and Kiesruck (1,265 m), exactly at the spot where the two rivers, the Großer Regen and the Kleiner Regen join and form the Black Regen. It is 10 km to the north-east of the district town of Regen, 35 km from the town of Deggendorf, 30 km from the town of Grafenau and 15 km from the border crossing point at Bayerisch Eisenstein, entry point to the Czech Republic.

Division of the town

Zwiesel has 11 districts:

Ableg
Bärnzell
Glasberg
Griesbach
Innenried
Klautzenbach
Lichtenthal
Rabenstein
Theresienthal
Zwiesel
Zwieselberg

Twin towns

Since May 2006 the Glass town of Zwiesel has maintained an official town twinning with the port town of Brake (Lower Saxony) at the river Weser. Brake is about 800 km from Zwiesel.