Moder (river)

The catchment area of ​​the modernists with the two main arms Moder (north) and anger (south)

The modernization is an approximately 82 km long left-hand tributary of the Rhine. The Moder dehydrated with its tributaries most of the northern Vosges and the Rhine north of unterelsässischen level. The catchment area covers 1720 km ². Your name is attributed to the Gallic river deity Matrae.

Geography

Course

The Moder rises to 330 meters above sea level at Moder field near Aspen home and initially flows in a northeasterly direction to the Wingen -sur -Moder. From here the railway line Saarbrücken accompany - Strasbourg and the D 919 the river that now runs until just before the mouth to the southeast. About Wimmenau reached at Ingwiller the edge of the Rhine valley. In Upper Modern, Pfaffenhoffen and Niedermodern it flows through peasant country. From left meets with Niedermodern the Rothenbachstraße it. Then the mod will rub in the south of the Forêt de Haguenau (Holy Forest ) and decreases in Schweighouse -sur -Moder, just before reaching the town of Haguenau, left the Northern Zinsel on. The landscape is dominated by industrial, commercial, transport and energy supply systems here. The town center crosses under the river partially cased and will then wedged in Kaltenhouse, Oberhoffen -sur -Moder and the town Bischwiller between roads. Having the A crosses under at Rohrwiller 35, the modernists used at the confluence of anger to the north and runs in Altrhein bed in just a few hundred meters distance to the Rhine, this according to the main direction parallel but highly threaded through the floodplains, past Druze home, Dalhunden, Stattmatten, Auenheim and Fort - Louis. When Rhine km 334.500 It flows below the Iffezheim barrage from the left in her companion.

Tributaries of the Moder

  • Schuesselthalbaechel (left), 5.0 km
  • Fischbach (left), 3.6 km
  • Moosbaechel ( Mossbaechel ) (right), 4.2 km
  • Meis Bach ( right), 12.4 km
  • Seelbach (left), 5.3 km
  • Weinbaechel (right), 4.1 km
  • Soultzbach (right), 8.3 km
  • Animal Matt trench ( trench village ) (left), 6.2 km
  • Wappachgraben (right) 6.4 km
  • Roth Bach ( left), 22.8 km
  • Hengstbaechel (right), 2.8 km
  • Landgraben (left), 6.6 km
  • Northern Zinsel (left), 43.2 km Falkensteiner Bach ( l) Schwarzenbach ( l)

History

From late summer to the winter of 1705 in the War of Spanish Succession opposing troops faced each other at the modernists line. End of this year occupied Ludwig of Baden Haguenau and Druze home.

1945 moved as part of Operation Undertone American troops Moder on the way to the Rhine before.

Main branch of the modernists, the north flows around Haguenau, when Weissenburger Gate

Moder mouth of the Rhine below the Iffezheim

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