River
Eisch
50 km from source to mouth · Luxembourg and Belgium.
Luxembourg and BelgiumFlows into Alzette3rd longest in Luxembourg
In numbers
Length
50km
Average flow
5.9m³/s
Basin
172km²
Drop
55m
from 271 m to 216 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
50 km of river and 42 stops on the way: 40 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 271 m
- 0 kmBergem1,575 people
- 1 kmNoertzange1,072 people
- 8 kmBettembourg7,437 people
- 13 kmCrauthem1,632 people
- 14 kmBivange1,107 people
- 17 kmFentange2,705 people
- 17 kmAlzingen2,988 people
- 18 kmHesperange1,937 people
- 21 kmHowald5,815 people
- 22 kmItzig2,414 people
- 24 kmHamm1,557 people
- 24 kmBonnevoie-Sud13,372 people
- 25 kmBonnevoie-Nord-Verlorenkost4,582 people
- 25 kmCents6,517 people
- 26 kmClausen1,052 people
- 26 kmGare11,360 people
- 26 kmLuxembourg76,684 people
- 27 kmHollerich7,781 people
- 27 kmVille Haute3,449 people
- 27 kmPfaffenthal1,343 people
- 28 kmBelair12,990 people
- 28 kmLimpertsberg11,521 people
- 28 kmWeimerskirch2,480 people
- 29 kmMuhlenbach2,497 people
- 29 kmEich2,976 people
- 29 kmKirchberg10,725 people
- 30 kmDommeldange3,012 people
- 32 kmBeggen3,954 people
- 33 kmHelmsange3,118 people
- 34 kmBéreldange4,665 people
- 35 kmWalferdange7,819 people
- 37 kmSteinsel1,879 people
- 37 kmHeisdorf1,586 people
- 38 kmMüllendorf1,239 people
- 40 kmBofferdange1,152 people
- 45 kmLintgen1,752 people
- 45 kmMarienthal monastery
- 48 kmRollingen2,245 people
- 49 kmReckange1,046 people
- 49 kmMersch3,464 people
- 49 kmBeringen1,199 people
- 49 kmAutelbastributary
- 50 kmAlzetteat 216 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Luxembourg and Belgium
At the mouth it carries 5.9 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 422 seconds. It drops from 271 m to 216 m, 1.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 172 km².
Where to start
- LuxembourgLargest city on its banks · 76,684 people
- Luxembourg-Findel International Airport (LUX)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 6 km from the cityCar hire at LUX airport (Luxembourg)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
Plan the trip
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Along the river
Eisch: what you find on the way
- 23Weirs
- 1Waterfalls
- 1Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Eisch in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
3mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (3)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Zolwerknapp11 km away422m
- Titelberg7.5 km away397m
- Montagne de Stockem11 km away367m
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Eisch in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
AlzetteLuxembourg73 km14 m³/sTributaries (5)
Also: Autelbas, Grendel, Millebaach, Millebaach, Durbaach
The Netherlands
Germany
SwitzerlandNearby
Rivers nearby
FranceWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1311008) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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