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The Sinn where it enters the Franconian Saale
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Location | Hesse, Bavaria, Germany |
Reference no. | DE: 2448 |
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Main source | near Oberwildflecken ca. 671 m above sea level (NN) 50°23′07″N 9°58′14″E / 50.385194°N 09.970417°ECoordinates: 50°23′07″N 9°58′14″E / 50.385194°N 09.970417°E |
River mouth | near Gemünden into the Franconian Saale ca. 154 m above sea level (NN) 50°03′39″N 9°41′28″E / 50.06083°N 09.69111°E |
Progression | Franconian Saale → Main → Rhine → North Sea |
River system | Rhine |
Basin size | 623.78 km² |
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Physical characteristics | |
Length | 61.06 km |
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The Sinn is a river that flows through the state of Hesse and the Bavarian province of Lower Franconia in southern Germany. It is about 50 kilometres (31 mi) long and is a right, northerly tributary of the Franconian Saale.
The Sinn emerges in the Franconian Rhön at the foot of the Kreuzberg near the local subdistrict (Gemarkung) of Neuwildflecken. At Zeitlofs on the Hessian-Lower Franconian border it flows into the Schmale Sinn which joins it from the Dammersfeldkuppe to the northeast.
Accompanied in places by the Würzburg−Fulda railway and crossed by the A 7 motorway bridge below Riedenberg, the Sinn initially flows in a southwesterly and then in a southerly direction to Gemünden, where it joins the Franconian Saale just under 700 m before the latter river discharges into the River Main.
The tributaries of the Sinn include (in downstream order): Oberbach, Schmale Sinn, Gronau, Jossa and Aura.
The towns and villages along the Sinn and Schmale Sinn include (in downstream order):
Wildflecken, Oberbach, Riedenberg, Bad Brückenau, Eckarts-Rupboden, Zeitlofs, Altengronau, Jossa, Obersinn, Mittelsinn, Burgsinn, Rieneck, Schaippach, Gemünden, (Oberzell).