The Prüm () is a river in

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

, left tributary of the

Sauer The Sauer (German and Luxembourgish, , ) or Sûre ( French, ) is a river in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. A left tributary of the Moselle, its total length is . Rising near Vaux-sur-Sûre in the Ardennes in southeastern Belgium, the Sauer f ...

. Its total length is , and its basin area is .Geoportal Rheinland-Pfalz
/ref> The Prüm rises in the

Schneifel The Schneifel is a range of low mountains, up to , in the western part of the Eifel in Germany, near the Belgian border. It runs from Brandscheid near Prüm in a northeasterly direction to Ormont. The name Schneifel has nothing to do with the G ...

hills, north of the town of Prüm, close to the border with

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

. It flows southward through Prüm,

Waxweiler Waxweiler is a municipality in the Bitburg-Prüm, county of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. It is located in the Eifel, south of Prüm and is accessible through the Autobahn Bundesautobahn 60, 60. The parish of about 1100 ...

, Holsthum, and Irrel. The Prüm discharges to the Sauer in

Minden Minden () is a middle-sized town in the very north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the greatest town between Bielefeld and Hanover. It is the capital of the district (''Kreis'') of Minden-Lübbecke, which is part of the region of Detm ...

, on the border with

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

, three kilometres east of

Echternach Echternach ( lb, Iechternach or (locally) ) is a commune with town status in the canton of Echternach, which is part of the district of Grevenmacher, in eastern Luxembourg. Echternach lies near the border with Germany, and is the oldest town in L ...

. The largest tributary of the Prüm is the Nims.

Catchment and tributaries

The

catchment A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, the ...

of the Prüm is in area. The largest tributaries of the Prüm are (l = left bank (dark blue), r = right bank (light blue)): * Mehlenbach (r), , before Watzerath * Mönbach (r), , after Watzerath * Alfbach (r), , near Pronsfeld * Bierbach (r), , after Pronsfeld * Echtersbach (r), , before

Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a pl ...

Enz The Enz is a river flowing north from the Black Forest to the Neckar in Baden-Württemberg. It is 106 km long. Its headstreams – the Little Enz (german: Kleine Enz) and the Great Enz or Big Enz (''Große Enz'') – rise in the Northern B ...

(r), , in Holsthum * Nims (l), , at Irrel TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:xxxx ImageSize = width:500 height:auto barincrement:25 PlotArea = left:10 right:10 top:10 bottom:40 AlignBars = justify Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(0.97,0.97,0.97) BackgroundColors = canvas:canvas Period = from:0 till:65 ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:0 gridcolor:blue BarData= barset:Flusslänge Define $left = textcolor:white color:oceanblue Define $right = textcolor:black color:skyblue PlotData= width:18 fontsize:M textcolor:black color:skyblue shift:(20,-6) anchor:from barset:Flusslänge from:start till:14.3 $right text:Mehlenbach (14.3 km) from:start till:9.8 $right text:Mönbach (9.8 km) from:start till:22.3 $right text:Alfbach (22.3 km) from:start till:9.8 $right text:Bierbach (9.8 km) from:start till:7.3 $right text:Echtersbach (7.3 km) from:start till:37.9 $right text:Enz (37.9 km) from:start till:61.4 $left text:Nims (61.4 km) TextData= fontsize:M pos:(10,20) text:km

References

Combined gauge data from Prümzurlay on the Prüm an
Alsdorf-Oberecken
on its confluence with the Nims, increased by the remaining catchment area (51.2 km²) with a (low estimate) Mq of 10 L/s km² Rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate Rivers of the Eifel Rivers of Germany {{RhinelandPalatinate-river-stub

Catchment and tributaries

See also

References