The roughly 14 kilometre long river has its source in a small, wooded area on the municipal boundary between Muchow and Stolpe at a height of about 42 metres above sea level.
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Marsden State High School is located on Muchow Road between the suburbs of Marsden and Waterford West.
From here the Tarnitz flows initially for about a kilometre in a southwestern and then southern direction, running east of the villages of Muchow and Zierzow.