The Zorn is a river of the North of the Alsace, right affluent of the Moder and tributary of a tributary of the the Rhine.

Etymology

The name of the river means running the resulting from the preceltic root " Sur" who means " couler". The old documents indicates it under the name " Sorne" in German. On the charts of Cassini whose sheet 162 probably finished at the end of the XVIIIe century, the name of the river appears in its current version. The " Z" comes from an agglutination of the singular female article " die" pronounced " dz" into Alsatian. The misspelling comes then probably from a cartographer who asked “for   How is called this river?   ” and which one answered into Alsatian: “  of Sorn  ”. The written transformation was easily accepted considering that the new name " die Zorn" is homophonous of " der Zorn" (anger) in German. The Zorn river thus bears a name which allots a strength to him that it does not have.

Geography

Zorn takes its source in the department of the the Moselle, with the foot of the " Grossmann" , at an altitude of 600 meters. It is of an interest like salmonicole river upstream of the town of Saverne. The river is also rich of its affluents: the Zinsel of the South, the Baerenbach, the Mosselbach and the Rohrbach.

In the narrow one and picturesque valley present at the same time the secondary road, the line of the railroads from Strasbourg to Sarrebourg and the Canal of the Marne in the Rhine. Many constructions, work of art, such as viaducts, bridges and tunnels, raise the imposing charm of this region. On the right the ruins of the feudal castle are perched of Lutzelbourg, destroyed in 1523. In the plain of Alsace, it crosses or cotoie the boroughs and villages of Monswiller, Steinbourg, Dettwiller, Wilwisheim, Hochfelden, Schwindratzheim, Waltenheim-on-Zorn, Wingersheim, Krautwiller, Brumath, Geudertheim, Weyersheim, Rohrwiller and Drusenheim before being thrown in the Moder close to Dalhunden.

See too

• the List of the rivers of France

• the Moder

External bonds

• Site of the PIKE PERCH

• Flows characteristic of Moder
• Flows characteristic of Zorn
• Bank Hydro - A3492020 Station - Zorn with Hœrdt (Synthesis) (not to notch the box " Station in service")

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