Moselle Spring
Bussang, Vosges
The Moselle rises in the southern Vosges Mountains, about 700 m above sea level, near the Col de Bussang. After 544 kilometres through and along France, Luxembourg and Germany, it flows into the Rhine at Koblenz, about 60 m above sea level, coming from the west. In the Miocene and Pliocene, the primeval Moselle was already a tributary of the primeval Rhine.
Its longest tributaries are the Saar, Sauer, Meurthe and Kyll, the most water-rich are the Saar, Sauer, Meurthe and Moselotte, and the Saar, Sauer, Meurthe and Seille have the largest catchment areas.
The Moselle and its tributaries have a catchment area of 28,153 km², of which 15,360 km² are in the French region of Lorraine/Grand Est. In Rhineland-Palatinate there are 6,980 km², in Saarland 2,569 km², in Luxembourg 2,521 km², in the Belgian Wallonia 767 km² and in North Rhine-Westphalia 88 km². (Source/ further information e.g.: wikipedia)
