Northern Zinsel

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Zinsel du Nord
Moderbach
The northern Zinsel in Mertzwiller

The northern Zinsel in Mertzwiller

Data
Water code FR :  A32-0200
location France
River system Rhine
Drain over Moder  → Rhine  → North Sea
source Moderbachquelle near Mouterhouse
48 ° 58 ′ 57 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 3 ″  E
Source height approx.  285  m
muzzle at Schweighouse-sur-Moder in the Moder coordinates: 48 ° 49 '25 "  N , 7 ° 44' 25"  E 48 ° 49 '25 "  N , 7 ° 44' 25"  E
Mouth height approx.  145  m
Height difference approx. 140 m
Bottom slope approx. 3.3 ‰
length 43 km
Catchment area 338.7 km²
Drain
at the mouth 		MQ
 3.28 m³ / s
Left tributaries Falkensteinerbach

The Nördliche Zinsel (Fr .: Zinsel du Nord), also called Moderbach , is a 43-kilometer left tributary of the Moder - calculated from the source of the Moderbach . The Northern Zinsel dehydrated with its tributaries the northwest of the northern Vosges mountains , especially the eastern part of the Moselle department belonging Bitche . The catchment area covers 339 km².

course

The northern Zinsel arises at about 225 meters, from the confluence of the Breidenbach and Moderbach , near Mouterhouse (German: Mutterhausen ). While the Breidenbach am Breitenstein or Twelve Apostle Stone (French: Pierre des douze Apôtres ) rises near Goetzenbruck , the source of the Moderbach, the Wasserfelsen (French: Cascade des Ondines ), lies on the eastern edge of Lemberg . The largest tributary is the Falkensteinerbach , which flows from the left at Uttenhofen.

The northern Zinsel then flows in the sometimes quite wide valley, surrounded by the endless forests of the Mutterhausen state forest, in a south-easterly direction to the Schmalenthalweiher (French also étang de Baerenthal ) and the popular holiday resort of Baerenthal . At the exit of the Vosges into the Rhine plain follows the Lower Alsatian village of Zinswiller . In Gumbrechtshoffen is Regional Natural Park of Vosges du Nord exit and from Uttenhoffen follows the Northern Zinsel of the N 62 and the railway line Niederbronn-les-Bains - Hagenau and crosses with these transport routes from Mertzwiller the Hagenauer forest .

At Schweighouse-sur-Moder in the canton of Hagenau it joins the Moder from the left in an industrial area.

history

In 1196 the river was called Cinzele . Surnames evidence relates Albrecht Greule the Southern Zinsel or the unsure identifiable Bach Gunsinus rivus , the old in three border descriptions of the monastery Maursmünster appears.

In the 19th century there was a lot of iron industry on the Northern Zinsel, which was run by the industrial dynasty De Dietrich . This led to heavy deforestation, which has now been compensated for.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b geoportail.fr
  2. ↑ Moderbach near SANDRE (French)
  3. ↑ a b see web link: Débits caractéristiques de la Zinsel du nord
  4. ^ Albrecht Greule : Pre- and early Germanic river names on the Upper Rhine , Heidelberg 1973, p. 49, p. 95. ISBN 3-533-02294-3 , plus dissertation from the University of Freiburg / Br. 1971

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