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The only rivers in Alsace are the Ill coming from south Alsace (or Sundgau), and the Bruche d'Andlau and the Bruche which have as tributaries other, shorter but sometimes powerful streams coming like the last two from the Vosges Mountains. The rivers Moselle, Meurthe and Sarre and their numerous affluents all rise on the Lorraine side.
The Vologne is a substantial river, as a result of its neighbours in the region of the Vosges Mountains.Its flow rate has been observed for a period of 40 years at Cheniménil, a locality in the Vosges department situated slightly before its confluence with the Moselle. [2]
The Moselle (/ m oʊ ˈ z ɛ l / moh-ZEL, [1] French: ⓘ; German: Mosel ⓘ; Luxembourgish: Musel ⓘ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it joins at Koblenz.
Bridge over the Saar at Saarbrücken. The Saar (German: ⓘ; French: Sarre ⓘ) is a river in northeastern France and western Germany, and a right tributary of the Moselle.It rises in the Vosges mountains on the border of Alsace and Lorraine and flows northwards into the Moselle near Trier.
The Ognon (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a river of Eastern France. It is a left tributary of the Saône, which it joins in Pontailler-sur-Saône. Its source is in Haut-du-Them-Château-Lambert in the Vosges Mountains near the Ballon d'Alsace. Its length is 214 km (133 mi) [1] and its basin area is 2,308 km 2 (891 sq mi).
The Meurthe (French pronunciation:) is a river in north-eastern France, right tributary to the river Moselle.It is 161 km (100 mi) long. [1] Its source is in the Vosges mountains, near the Col de la Schlucht in the Vosges département, from where it flows in an overall north-westerly direction.
The Weiss is a river in the Haut-Rhin department, northeastern France. It rises in the Vosges Mountains near the Lac Blanc and joins the river Fecht (a tributary of the Ill) near Bennwihr, north of Colmar, after a course of 24 kilometres (15 mi). [1] It flows through Orbey and Kaysersberg. [1]
The Thur (French pronunciation:) is a river in the Haut-Rhin department, Alsace, France, left tributary of the river Ill. It rises in the Vosges Mountains, and flows through the towns Thann and Cernay. It flows into the Ill (a tributary of the Rhine) near Ensisheim, north of Mulhouse. It is 53 km (33 mi) long. [1]