Mosel

of these articles describes the river Mosel. Mosel is called also a quarter of Zwickau.

Mosel

length:	544 km
source:	Vogesen
source height:	735 m and. NN
delta:	with Koblenz into the Rhine
muzzle height:	approx. 60 m and. NN
Difference in height:	approx. 675 m
catchment area:	35,000 km ²
inhabitants in the catchment area:
Countries:	France, Luxembourg, Germany
large cities:	Metz, Trier, Koblenz
middle cities:
Right tributaries:	Saar, Ruwer, Dhron
left tributaries:	Sourly, Kyll, Salm, Lieser, Alf, Elz
ports:
Important bridges:	s. Bridges over the Mosel
navigable:

The river Mosel (French: Moselle, of Luxembourg: Musel) flows by France, Luxembourg and Germany (Lands of the Federal Republic Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate).

1 Geografie
2 name
3 economics
4 bridges over the Mosel
5 see also
6 literature
7 Web on the left of

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Geografie

the Mosel (Latin Mosella (the small Maas (=Mosa), French la Moselle) rise at the Col de Bussang above Rupt sur Moselle in the Vogesen on 735 m height and flow after 544 km at the German hit a corner in Koblenz from left into the Rhine. The middle discharge at the delta amounts to 290 m ³ /s, with which after Mosel the Aare, and still before Main and Neckar, which are second largest tributary of the Rhine.

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river sections

The section of the Mosel up to the inlet of the Saar before Trier is called briefly in Germany Obermosel; it does not concern however geographically any longer the upper run of the river. The range from Trier to Briedel is called Mittelmosel.The section between Briedel and the delta in Koblenz is the so-called Untermosel. Characteristically the Mäander , in particular in the area between Bremm and Cochem , are the “Cochemer staples”. Are typical to the entire Untermosel the vineyard terraces. Therefore callsone this range also “Terrassenmosel”.

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the Mosel

the two low mountain ranges the Eifel (northwest) and Hunsrück separates adjacent low mountain ranges of Trier to downward (southeast).

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tributaries of the Mosel

Moselquelle

Mosel with Konz, briefly after the supply thatSaar

in France: Moselotte, Vologne, Madon, Meurthe, Seille, Orne
in Luxembourg (border to Germany): Sourly
in Germany: Sourly, Saar, Ruwer, Kyll, Dhron, Salm, Lieser, Alf, final ore

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important ones places to the Mosel

in France: Remiremont, Épinal, Toul, Pont à Mousson, Metz, Thionville, Cattenom
in Luxembourg: Schengen, Remich, Grevenmacher
in Germany: Trier, Bernkastel Kues, Traben Trarbach, Cochem, Kobern Gondorf, Winningen, Koblenz

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name

the name Mosel leads itself off from the celtic name form Mosea over Latin Mosella, a reduction form of Mosa, which represents designation at the beginning of parallel flowing river of the Maas to latin. ThatRoman poets Ausonius you already set in 4. Century a literary monument.

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economics

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navigation

in particular France was interested in a trafficability of the Mosel with larger ships, in order to be able to tie up the lothringischen industrial areas. Itreached by contract with the Federal Republic the canalization of the Mosel and confessed to Germany in response the so-called loop solution on the upper Rhine too (instead of a building of far of the Rhine side channel). 1967 became the Mosel from Metz to Koblenz as navigation road with 14 air-locksreleased. For the navigation the Moselkommission with seat is responsible in Trier. Apart from goods shipping trip ships between the routistic partly very intensively opened wine villages and small small towns of the central and Untermosel cross.

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barrage weirs

the Mosel (in the picture) flows above with Koblenz into the Rhine

the barrage weirs are in such a manner built that itself at an end weir a shipping sluice with fish stairs andat the other end a hydro-electric power plant finds. The pilot weirs and hydro-electric power plants in German area are steered in the central control room with Fankel.

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tourism

the Moseltal orders over a continuous cycle track, from Palzem at the of Luxembourg border to Koblenzthe way on 435 km is continuous passable. Each year on Sunday after Whitsuntide is this possible for daily on 140 km between Schweich and Cochem also auto-free in the context of the “Happy Mosel” -. Connection in other directions offer the Lahn valley cycle track, the Rhine cycle track and the Ruwer timber forest cycle track.

A number of remarkable castles and ruins zieren the heights over the Moseltal, also an inspection route by ship are worthwhile themselves.

A special migration leads from Ediger Eller across climbing-rises Calmont after Bremm throughthe steepest vineyard of Europe.

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viticulture

to the Mosel is an important Weinbaugebiet, whose German part ranks among the area Mosel Saar Ruwer.

The landscape of the Mosel is coined/shaped by the adjacent vineyards. Particularly impressively they show upwithin the range of the Mittelmosel, where at - at the Calmont between Ediger Eller and Bremm up to 65 degrees - steep the slate slopes above all Riesling is cultivated. Here grow singular wines, which are coined/shaped of multilayered mineralty. The viticulture at thatMosel is at present in a phase of paging. With much commitment and high-quality training the recent winegrower generation takes distance from the mass production of old days and concentrates on the production of individual point plants of the Rieslings, to that here inworld-wide einzigartes quality potential possesses.