The Moselle performs France, Luxembourg and Germany.
The mouth of the Moselle at the Deutsches Eck
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Map of Moselle Valley
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The Moselle near Koblenz-Güls
Ürzig (back right)
Regions
- The upper reaches of the Moselle is that french Part of the Moselle in Lorraine. It extends from the source of the Moselle Col de Bussang in the Vosges and at around 730 m above the cities of Remiremont, Epinal and Toul with about 190 kilometers of river length to after Metz.
- From Toul the Moselle is navigable. Here the western Rhine-Marne Canal flows into the Moselle, which is canalised from here.
in the LuxembourgerCanton of Grevenmacher:
- The Luxembourg part of the Upper Moselle extends for around 28 kilometers from the three-country corner Schengen (eponymous for the agreement) to Wasserbillig. The Moselle is the state border here Germany.
In Germany: From Trier onwards, the Moselle valley in Germany is characterized by a strongly meandering course with many vineyards on partly very steep slopes.
- The two-part German part of the river section of the Upper Moselle is roughly the part of Pearl in the Saarland until after trier in Rhineland-Palatinate. The smaller and around ten kilometers long part of the Upper Moselle in Saarland reaches roughly up to Remich, the Upper Moselle in Rhineland Palatinate then extends for around 35 kilometers trier.
- The Middle Moselle is an approximately 120 kilometers long stretch of river in Rhineland-Palatinate. It ranges from the city trier to Pünderich above Cell.
- The Lower Moselle (also Terrassenmosel) is the lowest and approx. 100 kilometers long river section of the Moselle up to the confluence with the Rhine in Koblenz.
places
- 1 Alkene
- 2 Beilstein
- 3 Bernkastel-Kues
- 4 Cochem
- 5 Epinal
- 6 Koblenz
- 7 Conc
- 8 Mehring
- 9 Mesenich
- 10 Mertert
(Mäertert)
- 11 Metz
- 12 Palzem
- 13 Pearl
- 14 Pomerania
- 16 Traben-Trarbach
- 17 Treis cards
- 19 Cell
. With 331 hectares, the wine town is the second largest wine-growing community on the Moselle.
Other goals
- Eltz Castle
- Wittlich
- Pilgrimage church Klausen
- Echternach
- Luxembourg
background
language
- German (partly in the variations Moselle Franconian, Lorraine)
- French
- Letzebuergisch (very similar to Moselle Franconian)
getting there
- There are among others Luxembourg Airport (good rail connection to trier, Bus connection to Perl), Metz Nancy Lorraine Airport, Saarbrücken Airport, Frankfurt Hahn Airport (Bus connection to Bullay, among others), Cologne Bonn Airport and Frankfurt am Main airport (direct rail connection to Koblenz) suitable.
- Long-distance trains stop in Metz and Koblenz.
- Regional express trains stop in Water cheap, trier, Bullay, Cochem, Treis cards, Kobern-Gondorf and Koblenz.
- To arrive by car are among others the
(Kreuz Koblenz) and the
(Triangle Moselle Valley) suitable.
Koblenz - Alken - Treis cards - Cochem - Alf - Trier
Koblenz - Treis cards