Zinsel du Nord
| Zinsel du Nord | |
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The Northern Zinsel in Mertzwiller
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| Location | France, regions of Lorraine and Alsace |
| Reference no. | FR: A32-0200 |
| Basin features | |
| Main source | The source of the Moderbach near Mouterhouse ca. 285 m 48°58′57″N 7°23′03″E / 48.9825°N 7.3843°ECoordinates: 48°58′57″N 7°23′03″E / 48.9825°N 7.3843°E |
| River mouth | near Schweighouse-sur-Moder into the Moder ca. 145 m 48°49′25″N 7°44′25″E / 48.82361°N 7.74028°E |
| Progression | Moder → Rhine → North Sea |
| River system | Rhine |
| Basin size | 338.7 km2 (130.8 sq mi) |
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| Physical characteristics | |
| Length | 43 km (27 mi) |
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The Zinsel du Nord (German: Nördliche Zinsel, also Moderbach), also called the North Zinsel or Northern Zinsel in English, is a left tributary of the River Moder, which is 43 kilometres (27 mi) long from the source of the Moderbach stream. The Zinsel du Nord and its tributaries drain northwest in the North Vosges, especially in the Pays de Bitche in the east of the department of Moselle. Its catchment area is 339 square kilometres (131 sq mi).
The Northern Zinsel begins at a height of about 225 metres above sea level at the confluence of the Breidenbach and Moderbach, near Mouterhouse. Whilst the Breidenbach rises at Zwölfapostelstein (Fr.: pierre de douze apotres) near Goetzenbruck, the source of the Moderbachs is on the western edge of Lemberg. Its largest tributary is the Falkensteinerbach, which joins it at Uttenhofen from the left.
The Northern Zinsel then flows through a valley which is very wide in places, surrounded by the endless forests of the Mouterhouse State Forest, in a southeasterly direction to the Étang de Baerenthal and the popular holdiday resort of the same name. At its exit from the Vosges into the Upper Rhine Plain is the Lower Alsatian village of Zinswiller. Near Gumbrechtshoffen it leaves the North Vosges Regional Nature Park and, from Uttenhoffen, follows the N 62 road and the Niederbronn-les-Bains – Hagenau railway line, crossing the Hagenau Forest from Mertzwiller.
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