Saar (Werra)

The Werraquelle at Siegmundsburg

The Saar is the 6.5 km long, orographic left of the source river Werra in the Thuringian Slate Mountains, southern Thuringia. It rises 800 meters south-west of Siegmundsburg, on the northwest slope of the 861 m high spruce droughts in the Thuringian Slate Mountains, and leaves the Sonneberg area after about 150 meters in the district of Hildburghausen. Your course west to southwest through the Saargrund, past the settlement of the same name, follows the federal highway 281 along the north edge of the 866.9 m high Bleßbergs.

Only a kilometer from his mouth exiting the creek and the forest reached Schirnrod to finally unite to 491 m above sea level with the Werra in Schwarzenbrunn. Up to this point she has left a height difference of at least 309 meters behind, which corresponds to an average bed slope of almost 5 %.

To dispute about the "real" Werraquelle

Already in 1648 the armed Siegmund burger with the Fehr Bachern had become on record, which Werra Quellarm the "right" unless. After it was opened in 1897 the Fehrenbacher source version, framed in 1910, the victory Mundsburger the source of the Saar and called it Werraquelle.

However, the main river question is practically settled in favor of the " Middle Werra ". The Saar is the role of the " extreme " influx of Werra and Weser at all, since they both the Rhine -Weser watershed and the Elbe-Weser watershed originates in the immediate vicinity.