River system of the Moselle
The river system of the Moselle is characterized by the fact that it flows from a high low mountain range into the Lorraine basin, which is only slightly subdivided by hills , and from this into another low mountain range, the Rhenish Slate Mountains , which it however at a measured distance from the mountain ranges of the Hunsrück and the Eifel crosses.
Its upper right tributaries, which come parallel to it from the Vosges , are almost as rich in water (the Moselotte even significantly richer) and almost as long as the Moselle at its mouth. The two longest tributaries reach the Moselle (which is now much longer there) soon after it enters the Rhenish Slate Mountains. The Sauer with all its tributaries and the northern tributaries of the Saar drain these mountains to the south. The Saar and its tributaries transport water from various directions, from the Vosges in the south, from the Palatinate Forest in the east and the Nied from the area between the Saar and the middle Moselle.
Most of the rivers of the Moselle system have a slight gradient, except for the upper reaches. In the rivers that come parallel to the Our and the Lower Sauer as the Eifel, the valley flanks are roughly the same height for long stretches, as the valley floors and the surrounding plateau drop in the same way towards the Moselle. The tributaries from the Hunsrück to the lower Moselle are among the shorter and have the steepest gradients. Their valleys are often only shallow hollows at the foot of the Hunsrück main ridge, but deeply cut just before the Moselle.
The Moselle, its most important tributaries and their most important tributaries from 25 km in length | ||||||||||
Representation:
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Rivers in the following table: > 100 km: 70–100 km: |
- Tributaries of tributaries are only in italics in this bar. - Saar • Sauer • Meurthe • Kyll • Seille • Nied Blies • Madon • Our • Vezouze • Prüm • Prims • Orne • Mortagne • Lieser • Alzette |
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Inflow in the direction of flow seen from |
Surname |
Location of the mouth |
Water number: SANDRE (FR) GKZ (DE) |
Length [km] |
Catchment area [km²] |
mean discharge [m³ / s] |
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Moselle / Moselle | Koblenz |
A --- 0060 DE: 26 |
544 | 28 153 | 320 | |||||
Left | Elzbach | Mosel core | EN: 2696 | 58.9 | 220.7 | |||||
right | Flaumbach | Treis cards | EN: 2694 | 28.4 | 202.9 | |||||
right | Dünnbach ← Deimerbach | 900 m from its mouth | DE: 26948 | 29.7 | 79.7 | |||||
Left | Alf | Alf (place) | EN: 268 | 51.9 | 358 | |||||
Left | Üßbach | Alf | EN: 2684 | 48.7 | 185.0 | |||||
Left | Readers | Lieser community | EN: 2678 | 73.6 | 402 | 3.5 | ||||
right | Dhron ← Wetzelbach | Neumagen-Dhron | EN: 2676 | 36 | 319 | 1.9 | ||||
Left | Little Dhron | Neumagen-Dhron paper mill | DE: 26768 | 28.6 | 137.2 | |||||
Left | Salm | Kluesserath | EN: 2674 | 63.4 | 298.5 | 2.0 | ||||
Left | Kyll | Honor | EN: 266 | 142 | 489 | 9.9 | ||||
right | Ruwer | Trier-Ruwer / Eitelsbach | EN: 2656 | 48.7 | 237.3 | 1.7 | ||||
right | Saar , fr. Sarre | Conc |
A9-0100 DE: 264 |
235 | 7 431 | 78.2 | ||||
Left | Nied | Rehlingen-Siersburg |
A9--0120 DE: 2648 |
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55 or 1141,390 | 10.4 | ||||
right | Nied Allemande / German Nied | Condé-Northen | A98-0200 | 57.9 | 366.9 | 3.6 | ||||
↑ Nied Française / French Nied | A9-0120 | 59 | 504 | 3.9 | ||||||
right | Prims | Dillingen | EN: 2646 | 91 | 73 | 10.5 | ||||
Left | Rossel / Rosselle | near Völklingen - Wehrden |
A95-0200 DE: 2644 |
38 | 2.4 | |||||
right | Blew | Sarreguemines / Saargemünd |
93-0200 DE: 2642 |
99.5 | 1 889 | 19.9 | ||||
Left | Schwarzbach | Desolate | DE: 26426 | 50.6 / 62.8 | 1,151.5 | 10.4 | ||||
Left | Hornbach / Horn | in Zweibrücken- Bubenhausen |
A93-0210 DE: 264268 |
32.8 | 521.1 | 4.6 | ||||
Left | Rodalb | at Biebermühle | DE: 264264 | 25.7 | 116.2 | |||||
right | Moss ointment | 15.3 km to Schwarzbach-Q. | DE: 264262 | 25.8 | ||||||
right | Aschbach | 14.1 km from its mouth | DE: 2642624 | 14.4 / 15.5 | 60.5 | |||||
Left | Easter | Wiebelskirchen | DE: 26422 | 30.7 | 53 | 1.5 | ||||
right | Acorn | Herbitzheim | A92-0200 | 32.4 | 288.5 | 3.1 | ||||
Left | Alb | Sarralbe | A91-0200 | 33.3 | 409.8 | 3.7 | ||||
right | Sarre Rouge / Red Saar | Lorquin | A9010300 | 26.8 | 107 | 1.9 | ||||
^ Sarre Blanche / White Saar | A9-0100 | 26.2 | 80.4 | 1.6 | ||||||
Left | Sour / Sûre | Water cheap | EN: 262 | 173 | 4 259 |
or 53.8 |
40.9 ||||
Left | Prüm | Minden | EN: 2628 | 95 | 888.8 | 8.1 | ||||
Left | Nims | Irrel | DE: 26288 | 61.4 | 297.7 | 2.8 | ||||
Left | Enz | Holsthum | DE: 26286 | 37.9 | 148.5 | |||||
Left | Our | Wallendorf | EN: 2626 | 96.1 | 668.3 | 9.4 | ||||
Left | Irsen | at Gemünd | DE: 26268 | 35.5 | 125.4 | |||||
right | Alzette | Ettelbruck | A89-0200 | 73 | 1 117 | 11 | ||||
Left | Wark | - | 28.4 | |||||||
Left | Attert | Colmar mountain | - | 38.0 | 299.0 | |||||
Left | Eisch | Mersch | - | 49 | ||||||
Left | Mamer | - | 25.6 | |||||||
Left | Wiltz | Burscheid - Goebelsmühle | - | 45 | ||||||
Left | Klerf / Klierf | Kiischpelt | - | 28.3 | 70.0 | |||||
Left | Syr / Syre | Mertert | - | 32 | 207 | |||||
right | Canner | King smack | A87-0200 | 29.4 | 110.3 | 0.1 | ||||
Left | Orne | Richemont | A8-0100 | 85.8 | 1 268 | 12.4 | ||||
right | Yron | between Jarny and Conflans-en-Jarnisy | A81-0200 | 37.4 | 380.0 | 3.7 | ||||
right | Seille | Metz | A7-0100 | 137.7 | 1 348 | 10.5 | ||||
right | Petite Seille | south of Salonnes | A76-0200 | 25.5 | 155.8 | 1.4 | ||||
Left | Rupt de Mad | Arnaville | A73-0200 | 54.6 | 384.8 | 3.7 | ||||
Left | Esch | Pont-à-Mousson | A71-0200 | 46.4 | 239 | 1.5 | ||||
Left | Terrouin | Villey-Saint-Etienne | A58-0200 | 38.9 | 170.5 | 0.7 | ||||
right | Meurthe | north of Nancy | A6-0100 | 160.2 | 3,085 | 41.1 | ||||
right | Sânon | at Saint-Nicolas-de-Port | A68-0200 | 48.6 | 291.6 | 2.8 or 3.1 | ||||
right | Vezouze | Luneville | A6-0110 | 75.1 | 563.4 | 6.6 | ||||
Left | Mortagne | Mont-sur-Meurthe | A6-0120 | 74.6 | 582 | 6.7 | ||||
right | Plaine | Raon-l'Étape | A62-0200 | 34.3 | 127 | 2.4 | ||||
right | Rabodeau | below Moyenmoutier | A61-0200 | 25.7 | 153 | 3.5 | ||||
Left | Madon | Pont-Saint-Vincent | A5-0100 | 96.9 | 1 032 | 11.1 | ||||
Left | Brénon | near Autrey | A54-0200 | 26.3 | 142.3 | 1.3 | ||||
right | Vologne | Jarménil | A43-0200 | 49.6 | 368 | 9.7 | ||||
right | Moselotte (more watery) |
Remiremont , 43.3 km to the source of the Moselle |
A41-0200 | 48 | 357 | 13.7 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ 15.5 km with a longer tributary Eulenmühlenbach , see Geoportal Wasser Rheinland-Pfalz, map section Rambach with Eulenmühlenbach
- ↑ Measured value from the last measuring station in Metz: 1,280 km² and 9.77 m³ / s