Saar River
The Saar is a river in northeastern France and western Germany, and a right tributary of the Moselle. It rises in the Vosges mountains on the border of Alsace and Lorraine and flows northwards into the Moselle near Trier.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in France and Germany
- Also known as: “La Sarre Rivière”, “Saar”, and “Sarre”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Igel Column and Konz.
Igel Column
Photo: Dkvtig, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Igel Column is a multi-storeyed Roman sandstone column in the municipality of Igel, Trier, Germany, dated to c. 250 AD. The column is the burial monument of the Secundinii cloth merchant family, and was built by two of the family members, Lucius Secundinius Aventinus and Lucius Secundinus Securus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Konz and Igel.
Konz
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Konz is a city in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated at the confluence of the rivers Saar and Moselle, approx.
Igel
Village
Photo: William Pars, Public domain.
Igel is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Igel is known for the Igel Column, a 23 m high Roman decorated tomb. The Igel Column is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Wasserliesch
Village
Photo: GFHein1113, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wasserliesch is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Saar River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Saar River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر السار”
- Armenian: “Սաար”
- Asturian: “Ríu Saar”
- Basque: “Saar”
- Basque: “Sarre ibaia”
- Basque: “Sarre”
- Belarusian: “Рака Саар”
- Belarusian: “Саар”
- Bosnian: “Saar”
- Bosnian: “Sarre”
- Breton: “Saar”
- Bulgarian: “Заар”
- Bulgarian: “Саар”
- Bulgarian: “Сар”
- Catalan: “Riu Saar”
- Catalan: “Riu Sarre”
- Catalan: “Saar”
- Cebuano: “Saar River”
- Chinese: “萨尔河”
- Chinese: “薩爾河”
- Czech: “Saar”
- Czech: “Sára”
- Czech: “Sarre”
- Danish: “Saar”
- Dutch: “Saar (rivier)”
- Dutch: “Saar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر السار”
- Esperanto: “Saar”
- Esperanto: “Saro”
- Estonian: “Saari jõgi”
- Finnish: “Saar”
- French: “Sarre blanche”
- French: “Sarre”
- Galician: “Río Saar”
- German: “Rote Saar”
- German: “Saar”
- German: “Saartal”
- German: “Weiße Saar”
- Greek: “Ζάαρ”
- Greek: “Σάαρ”
- Hebrew: “סאר (נהר)”
- Hebrew: “סאר”
- Hungarian: “Saar”
- Irish: “Saar”
- Italian: “Saar”
- Japanese: “ザール川”
- Korean: “자르강”
- Latin: “Saravus”
- Latvian: “Zāra”
- Lithuanian: “Saras”
- Luxembourgish: “Saar”
- Macedonian: “Сар”
- Mazanderani: “زار روخنه”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sarre”
- Norwegian: “Saar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sarre”
- Persian: “زار”
- Polish: “Saar”
- Polish: “Saara”
- Portuguese: “Rio Saar”
- Portuguese: “Rio Sarre”
- Romanian: “Râul Saar”
- Romanian: “Saar”
- Russian: “Saar”
- Russian: “Зар”
- Russian: “Саар (река, приток Мозеля)”
- Russian: “Саар”
- Serbian: “Saar”
- Serbian: “Sar”
- Serbian: “Sarre”
- Serbian: “Река Сар”
- Serbian: “Сар”
- Spanish: “rio Saar”
- Spanish: “río Saar”
- Spanish: “rio Sarre”
- Spanish: “río Sarre”
- Spanish: “Río Sarre”
- Spanish: “Saar”
- Spanish: “Saravus”
- Spanish: “Sarre”
- Swedish: “Saar”
- Swiss German: “Saar”
- Tosk Albanian: “Saar”
- Turkish: “Saar Nehri”
- Udmurt: “Саар”
- Ukrainian: “Саар”
- Upper Sorbian: “Saar”
- Venetian: “Fiume Sarre”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Saar”
- Welsh: “Afon Saar”
- Western Frisian: “Saar (rivier)”
- Western Frisian: “Saar”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Konz and Reinig.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Konz Mitte and Kreuz Konz.
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