Alf (river)

The Alf is a small river in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, a left arm of the Moselle. It rises in the Eifel, near Darscheid, east of Daun. The Alf flows south through Mehren, Gillenfeld and Bausendorf, where it wends east to flow into the Mosel in the thorpe of Alf.GeographyFlowwayThe Alf rises about 1 kilometre northeast of Hörscheid in the Volcanic Eifel. From its wellspring at a height of the Alf firstly flows in a southerly thither. The first thorpe alongst is Darscheid which it runs to the east. The next thorpe on its path are Gillenfeld and Strohn. In the next stretch as far as Bausendorf the flowway of the Alf is highly winding. Whereas hitherto it had flowed mainly towards the south, now it wends towards the east and cuts through the south of the woodland of Kondelwald overfaring the thorpes of Kinderbeuern and Bengel. Around 3.5 kilometres beyond Bengel it shifts pathway forthwith and swings north. A ridge keeps it from flowing further east to the River Mosel here just 546.807 yards away. After breaking through the Mosel Hills the Alf endly empties into the Mosel at Alf (Cochem-Zell) at an height of. Along its 53-kilometre path from wellspring to mouth, the Alf falls through 496.5 yards, giving it an mean river bed rake of 8.6 ‰.