Lech (river) Lech (river) The Lech (, "Licca") is a river in Austria and Germany. It is a right tributary of the Danube in length with a drainage basin of . Its source is located in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, where the river rises from lake Formarinsee in the Alps at an altitude of . It flows in a north-north-easterly direction and crosses the German border, forming the Lechfall, a waterfall; afterwards the river enters a narrow gorge (the Lechschlucht). Leaving the Alps, it enters the plains of the Allgäu at Füssen at an elevation of in the German state of
Lech, Czech, and Rus name for the Polish nation. Three large oaks in the garden adjacent to the 18th-century palace in Rogalin, Greater Poland, are named after the brothers ("Lech, Czech i Rus"), and are several hundred years old. They vary between in circumference. They are part of the Rogalin Landscape Park, and together with other they have been declared nature monuments and placed under protection. Lech, Czech, and Rus Lech, Czech and Rus () refers to a founding myth of three Slavic peoples: the Poles (or Lechites), the Czechs, and the Rus' people. The three legendary brothers appear together in the "Wielkopolska Chronicle",