Our (river)

Ardennes River landscape in Luxembourg

The Our ​​( German and French Our, dt formerly Ur) is a good 96 km long tributary of the Sauer along the German border to the western neighboring countries Belgium and Luxembourg.

Course of the river

The river rises in the acorn mountain ( 653 m) in the eastern Ardennes ( Belgium) and forms from there to part the German -Belgian border. From the triangle at the monument between Europe Ouren (B ), Sevenig (D) and Lieler (L ) he runs almost entirely on the border between Germany and Luxembourg to the German Walldorf, where it flows into the sour. It flows mainly from north to south and meanders thereby partially.

The Our ​​is on the entire route, on which it forms the German -Luxembourg border, a co-managed condominium ( " Joint German -Luxembourgian territory "). So the only one territory allocated territories begin at the respective banks. In the upper section between Germany and Belgium, the state border, as is common in the thalweg of the river.

Tributaries of the Our

- Location of estuaries from Our source measured -

  • Auw (left, at km 9)
  • Ihrenbach (left, at km 21)
  • Braunlauf (right, at km 23)
  • Winterspelt Bach (left, at km 26)
  • Ulf (right, at km 30)
  • Irsen (left, at km 67)

A more extensive list, which also includes small tributaries, is found in the list of tributaries of the Our.

Places along the Our River

At the Our is the Luxembourg border town of Vianden, one of the main tourist destinations in Luxembourg. In Belgium and northern Luxembourg, the Our ​​Valley Route is as a racetrack. Of particular interest is the section between Manderfeld (Belgium) and Lieler ( Luxembourg ), where you can almost completely along drive along the Our. Takes you past partly due to the Burg Reuland ( Ouren ) and the European monument at the border triangle Germany -Belgium- Luxembourg.

Other cities are:

  • Anmeldingen
  • Schoenberg
  • Walldorf near Boll village.
  • Grüfflingen at St. Vith
  • Auel in Burg Reuland

Use

The Our ​​is dammed north of Vianden by the Ourtalsperre and forms the lower reservoir of the pumped storage plant Vianden.

Wallendorf Burg-Reuland Sevenig (Our) Reuland Castle Dasburg Untereisenbach Bettel Ammeldingen an der Our Bollendorf Vianden Pumped Storage Plant
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