Nied Allemande

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Nied Allemande
Data
Water code FR :  A98-0200
location France
River system Rhine
Drain over Nied  → Saar  → Moselle  → Rhine  → North Sea
source in the municipality of Guenviller
49 ° 5 ′ 44 ″  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 20 ″  E
Source height approx.  280  m
muzzle in the municipality of Condé-Northen in the Nied Française coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 38 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 52"  E 49 ° 9 ′ 38 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 52"  E
Mouth height approx.  203  m
Height difference approx. 77 m
Bottom slope approx. 1.3 ‰
length 58 km
Catchment area 366.9 km²
Drain
at the mouth 		MQ
 3.58 m³ / s
Left tributaries Bischwald
Small towns Faulquemont

The Nied Allemande (German: German Nied ) is a river in France that runs in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region .

geography

course

It rises in the municipality of Guenviller , drains in an arc from southwest to northwest and flows after 58 kilometers in the municipality of Condé-Northen from the right into its sister river Nied Française (German: French Nied ), which changes its name from here and continues downstream is only called Nied .

Places on the river

Language border

Between the two sister rivers, the German and the French Nied , the language border runs between the Moselle-Franconian “Platt” and the neighboring Romance-Lorraine dialects of the Langues d'oïl and thus also the traditional German - French language border.

Development of the name

Formerly:

  • Le Nied des Allemands (1495)
  • The German Nida fluv. (17th century)

Remarks

  1. ↑ Source geoportail.fr (1: 32,000)
  2. ↑ estuary geoportail.fr (1: 16,000)
  3. ↑ a b The information on the length of the river is based on the information about the Nied Allemande from SANDRE (French), accessed on February 6, 2012, rounded to full kilometers.
  4. ↑ a b See web link: Débits caractéristiques de la Nied Allemande
  5. ^ Ernest de Bouteiller, Dictionnaire topographique de l'ancien département de la Moselle , rédigé en 1868.

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