The Saar is a river in northeastern France and western Germany, a right-sided tributary of the Moselle. It rises in the Vosges Mountains on the border of Alsace and Lorraine. And flows north into the Moselle at Trier. It has two sources (the Sarre Rouge and the Sarre Blanche, which join at Lorquin). Which rise near Mont Donon, the highest peak in the northern Vosges. After 246 kilometres (129 km in France and on the Franco-German border. And 117 km in Germany), the Sarre joins the Moselle at Konz (Rhineland-Palatinate) between Trier and the Luxembourg border. Its catchment area is 7 431 km².
The Völklinger Hütte, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located on the banks of the Saar River. At Mettlach, the Saar flows through the famous Saar Loop. The Lower Saarland in Rhineland-Palatinate is an important wine-growing area, where Riesling is the main crop. Until the beginning of the 20th century, much more wine was grown on the banks of the Saar. Which extend much higher up from the mouth of the river to Saarbrücken. It was only at the beginning of the 21st century that some enterprising farmers in the Saarland region began to experiment with wine-growing again.
The name Saar comes from the Celtic word sara (flowing water) and the Roman name for the river saravus.
left tributaries – Sarre Blanche, Albe, Rossel, Nied, Bist, Leukbach
right tributaries – Köllerbach, Prims, Sarre Rouge, Eichel, Bièvre, Blies, Isch, Rohrbach, Ellbachc
