Alzette
Alzette Uelzecht |
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Course of the Alzette |
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Water code | FR : A89-0200 | |
location | France | |
River system | Rhine | |
Drain over | Sauer → Moselle → Rhine → North Sea | |
source | in Villerupt - Micheville 49 ° 28 ′ 26 ″ N , 5 ° 56 ′ 1 ″ E |
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Source height | 305 m | |
muzzle | at Ettelbrück in the Sauer Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '53 " N , 6 ° 6' 43" E 49 ° 50 '53 " N , 6 ° 6' 43" E |
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Mouth height | 192 m | |
Height difference | 113 m | |
Bottom slope | 1.5 ‰ | |
length | 73 km | |
Catchment area | 1172 km² | |
Outflow A Eo : 1172 km² at the mouth |
MQ Mq |
11 m³ / s 9.4 l / (s km²) |
Medium-sized cities | Luxembourg | |
The Alzette at the mouth of the Petruss in Luxembourg (city) |
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Mouth of the Alzette (left) into the Sauer (right) |
The Alzette (Luxembourgish: Uelzecht ; outdated High German names: Alzig or Goethe: Elze ) is a 73 km long tributary of the Sauer in France and Luxembourg .
geography
course
The Alzette rises in France in the commune of Villerupt (German: Weiler) in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department , flows from there to the north and runs through the south of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (the Gutland ) from south to north. It flows through Esch and Hesperingen in a spacious basin and through the capital Luxembourg in a narrow valley with the districts of Grund and Pfaffenthal . The most modern bridge over the river there is the Grand Duchess Charlotte Bridge .
North of the capital around Walferdingen (Walfer, Walferdange) and Lorentzweiler , the valley is somewhat wider, but its slopes are higher. At Mersch, where the Mamer and Eisch flow from the west , it gets narrower again. In Colmar-Berg also the flows from west Attert . About 3 km further on, the Alzette flows into the Sauer near Ettelbrück .
The Alzette is sung about in the Luxembourg national anthem . The PC 1 and PC 15 long-distance cycle routes run along the Alzette as part of the national cycle network in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Tributaries
- Belerbach (left) , 4.1 km
- Dipbech (left) ; 5.5 km
- Kiemelbach (left) ; 7.8 km
- Mess (left) ; 13.7 km
- Kaelbach (right) ; 16.5 km
- Mierbech (left) ; 5.2 km
- Didelengerbach (right) ; 7.5 km
- Bibeschbach (left) ; 5.4 km
- Crauthemergruef (right) ; 2.9 km
- Doulemerbaach (left)
- Izegerbaach (right)
- Drosbech (left) ; 8.6 km
- Huerbaach (right)
- Petruss (left) ; 12.8 km
- Klengelbach (left) ; 1.5 km
- Wäissbaach (right)
- Kaylbaach (left)
- Millebach (left)
- Kaasselterbach (right) ; 4.5 km
- Rollegerbaach (right)
- Bierschbach (right) ; 4.3 km
- Mamer (left) ; 25.6 km
- Eisch (left) ; 49.6 km
- Bierengerbach (right) ; 1.5 km
- Wellerbach (Wëllerbaach) (left) ; 6.2 km
- Rouschtbach (right) ; 1.8 km
- Rouschtbach (left) ; 2.0 km
- Schrondweilerbach (right) ; 4.4 km
- Wäissefiertchen (right)
- Metschbach (right) ; 2.9 km
- Kalbach (right) ; 0.2 km
- Attert (left) ; 30.5 km
- Kiselbach (right) ; 3.3 km
- Ousterbaach (left)
- Deiwelbaach (left)
- Haupteschbach (left) ; 3.4 km
- Wark (left) ; 28.4 km
Web links
- Alzette at SANDRE (French)
- Débits caractéristiques de l'Alzette (French; PDF file; 14 kB)
- Ettelbrück station: Alzette
Individual evidence
- ^ Débits caractéristiques
- ↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia, 19th edition, Vol. 1, p. 462.
- ^ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Campaign in France - October 15. (No longer available online.) In: Wissen-im-netz.info. March 8, 2003, archived from the original on November 8, 2005 ; accessed on August 6, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ National cycle network in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (PDF; 2.6 MB)