Saale
The Saale, also known as the Saxon Saale and Thuringian Saale, is a river in Germany and a left-bank tributary of the Elbe. It is distinguished from the smaller Franconian Saale, a right-bank tributary of the Main, or the Saale in Lower Saxony, a tributary of the Leine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: River
- Description: river in Germany
- Also known as: “Sächsische Saale”, “Saxon Saale”, and “Thuringian Saale”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Schloss and St. Leonhard (Köditz).
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hof and Töpen.
Hof
Photo: Mediaman71, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hof is a city of 45,000 people in Upper Franconia in Bavaria. Hof, meaning farm estate, is a very common German place name, but this one is specifically Hof an der Saale.
Töpen
Village
Photo: TPO, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Töpen is a municipality in Upper Franconia in the district of Hof in Bavaria in Germany.
Saale
- Category: body of water
- Location: Köditz, Hof, Upper Franconia, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.3487° or 50° 20′ 55″ northLongitude
11.877° or 11° 52′ 37″ eastOpen location code
9F2H8VXG+FQOpenStreetMap ID
way 128666718OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=riverWikidata ID
Q1678
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Satellite Map
Discover Saale from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Saale” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Saale”
- Albanian: “Lumi Saale”
- Albanian: “Saale”
- Arabic: “زاله”
- Arabic: “نهر زاله”
- Aragonese: “Río Saale”
- Armenian: “Զալե”
- Arpitan: “Saale”
- Asturian: “Saale”
- Basque: “Saale”
- Bavarian: “Saale”
- Belarusian: “Заале”
- Belarusian: “Зале”
- Breton: “Saale”
- Bulgarian: “Зале”
- Catalan: “Saale”
- Cebuano: “Saale (suba sa Alemanya, lat 51,95, long 11,91)”
- Cebuano: “Saale”
- Chinese: “萨勒河”
- Chinese: “薩勒河”
- Chuvash: “Зале”
- Corsican: “Saale”
- Croatian: “Saale”
- Czech: “Sála”
- Danish: “Saale”
- Dutch: “Saale”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر زاله”
- Esperanto: “Saale”
- Estonian: “Saale”
- Finnish: “Saale”
- French: “Saale”
- Friulian: “Saale”
- Galician: “Saale”
- German: “Saale”
- Greek: “Ζάαλε”
- Hebrew: “זאלה”
- Hungarian: “Saale”
- Icelandic: “Saale”
- Ido: “Saale”
- Indonesian: “Saale”
- Interlingua: “Saale”
- Interlingue: “Saale”
- Irish: “An tSaale”
- Italian: “Saale”
- Japanese: “ザーレ川”
- Kongo: “Saale”
- Korean: “잘레강”
- Latin: “Sala”
- Latvian: “Zāle”
- Ligurian: “Saale”
- Limburgan: “Saale”
- Lithuanian: “Zalė”
- Low German: “Saale”
- Lower Sorbian: “Solawa”
- Luxembourgish: “Saale”
- Macedonian: “Зале”
- Malagasy: “Saale”
- Malay: “Saale”
- Mazanderani: “زاله روخنه”
- Minangkabau: “Saale”
- Narom: “Saale”
- Neapolitan: “Saale”
- Northern Frisian: “Saale”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saale”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saale”
- Norwegian: “Saale”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Saale”
- Persian: “زاله”
- Persian: “ساله (رود)”
- Picard: “Saale”
- Piemontese: “Saale”
- Polish: “Saale”
- Polish: “Soława”
- Portuguese: “Rio Saale”
- Portuguese: “Saale”
- Romanian: “Saale”
- Romansh: “Saale”
- Russian: “Зале”
- Sardinian: “Saale”
- Scots: “Saale”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Saale”
- Serbian: “Saale”
- Serbian: “Зале”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Saale”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zale”
- Sicilian: “Saale”
- Slovak: “Saale”
- Slovak: “Sála”
- Slovenian: “Saale”
- South Azerbaijani: “زاله چایی”
- Spanish: “Río Saale”
- Spanish: “Saale”
- Swahili: “Saale”
- Swedish: “Saale”
- Swiss German: “Saale”
- Tagalog: “Saale”
- Ukrainian: “Заале”
- Ukrainian: “Зале”
- Ukrainian: “Сала”
- Ukrainian: “Солава”
- Upper Sorbian: “Solawa”
- Venetian: “Saale”
- Vietnamese: “Saale”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Saale”
- Vlaams: “Saale”
- Volapük: “Saale”
- Walloon: “Saale”
- Welsh: “Saale”
- Western Frisian: “Saale”
- Wolof: “Saale”
- Zulu: “Saale”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Brunnenthal and Forst.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Saale and Papierfabrik.
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