Sauer
The Sauer or Sûre is a river in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. A left tributary of the Moselle, its total length is 173 kilometres. Rising near Vaux-sur-Sûre in the Ardennes in southeastern Belgium, the Sauer flows eastwards and becomes the border with Luxembourg near Martelange.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Belgium, Luxembourg and German border
- Also known as: “Die Sauer”, “La Sûre”, “Sure”, and “Sûre”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sauer Valley Bridge and Wasserbillig Aquarium.
Sauer Valley Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Hejnjahns, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sauer Valley Bridge is a motorway bridge high above the Sauer River which at this point marks the frontier between Luxembourg and Germany. It was constructed between 1984 and 1987.
Wasserbillig Aquarium
Public aquarium
Photo: Ipigott, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Wasserbillig Aquarium is located in Wasserbillig, a small town in the south west of Luxembourg on the German border. It consists of 15 tanks ranging in size from 300 to 40,000 litres, with fish from all five continents in their natural surroundings.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mesenich and Langsur.
Langsur
Village
Photo: Touriste, Public domain.
Langsur is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Moersdorf
Village
Photo: Johnny Chicago, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Moersdorf is a small town in the commune of Rosport-Mompach, in eastern Luxembourg. As of 2025, the town has a population of 507.
Sauer
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Walloon—“Sauer” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Sauer”
- Basque: “Sauer”
- Belarusian: “Заўэр”
- Bulgarian: “Зауер”
- Catalan: “Sauer”
- Catalan: “Sûre”
- Cebuano: “Sauer”
- Chinese: “叙尔河”
- Chinese: “紹爾河”
- Chinese: “绍尔河”
- Chuvash: “Зауэр”
- Croatian: “Sauer”
- Croatian: “Sûre”
- Danish: “Sauer”
- Dutch: “Sure”
- Dutch: “Sûre”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ساوير”
- Esperanto: “Sauer”
- Finnish: “Sauer”
- French: “Sure”
- French: “Sûre”
- German: “Sauer”
- German: “Sûre”
- Hebrew: “זאואר”
- Irish: “Sauer”
- Italian: “Sauer”
- Italian: “Sûre”
- Japanese: “サウアー川”
- Japanese: “ザウアー川”
- Japanese: “シュール川”
- Korean: “쉬르 강”
- Korean: “쉬르강”
- Korean: “자우어 강”
- Korean: “자우어강”
- Latin: “Sura”
- Latvian: “Zauere”
- Lithuanian: “Siuras”
- Lithuanian: “Siūras”
- Lithuanian: “Zaueris”
- Luxembourgish: “Sauer”
- Macedonian: “Зауер”
- Mazanderani: “سائور”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sûre”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sûre”
- Norwegian: “Sûre”
- Polish: “Sauer”
- Polish: “Sûre”
- Portuguese: “Rio Sauer”
- Portuguese: “Rio Sûre”
- Romanian: “Râul Sauer, Mosela”
- Romanian: “Râul Sauer”
- Romanian: “Sûre”
- Russian: “Зауэр”
- Serbian: “Zauer”
- Serbian: “Зауер”
- Serbian: “Сауер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sauer”
- Slovenian: “Sauer”
- Slovenian: “Sûre”
- Spanish: “Sauer”
- Spanish: “Sure”
- Spanish: “Sûre”
- Swedish: “Sauer”
- Swedish: “Sûre”
- Turkish: “Sauer Nehri”
- Turkish: “Sûre Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Зауер”
- Ukrainian: “Сур”
- Venetian: “Fiume Sûre”
- Walloon: “Aiwe di Seure”
- Walloon: “Seure”
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Localities in the Area
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