The Löster or ''Lösterbach'' is a right tributary of the

Prims The Prims is a 91 km long river in western Germany, right tributary of the Saar. It rises in the Hunsrück mountains, near the village Malborn. It flows generally south through the towns Nonnweiler, Wadern and Schmelz. It flows into the S ...

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 ...

and

Saarland The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and t ...

Route

It rises to about 525 meters above sea level at

Reinsfeld Reinsfeld is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe aft ...

as ''Dörrenbach'', is joined by the Rotbach near

Hermeskeil Hermeskeil () is a city in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Hunsrück, approx. 25 km southeast of Trier. Its population is about 5,900. Data Hermeskeil is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeind ...

and is then called ''Löster''. It flows through the mills at the Steiner forest and crosses under the

Federal Highway 1 The following highways are numbered 1. For roads numbered A1, see list of A1 roads. For roads numbered B1, see list of B1 roads. For roads numbered M1, see List of M1 roads. For roads numbered N1, see list of N1 roads. For roads numbered S ...

( European route E422), flows through Bierfeld and Löstertal and flows at about 265 meters above sea level south of the Saarland town

Wadern Wadern is a municipality in the federal state Saarland, which is situated in the southwest of Germany. It is part of the district Merzig-Wadern. Wadern consists of 13 urban districts with approximately 16.000 inhabitants. With 143 inhabitants per ...

near the

Dagstuhl Castle Dagstuhl Castle (in German: Burgruine Dagstuhl or Burg Dagstuhl) is a ruined castle on the top of a hill near the town of Wadern, ''kreis'' Merzig-Wadern, in Saarland, Germany. It overlooks the newer Schloss Dagstuhl in the valley below, which i ...

into the

, shortly before the mouth of the

Wadrill The Wadrill is a river of Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Prims, which it joins south of Wadern. See also *List of rivers of Saarland *List of rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate A list of rivers of Rhinel ...

in the Prims. The Hochwald train runs from Hermeskeil through the valley and crosses it in the area where the Felsbach (border between Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland) opens into the Löster.

Incoming rivers

Right tributaries are the Bach from Lascheiderhof who Detzbach who Bleidenbach and Lohbach. Left tributaries are the Senkelbach, the Hahn Born Bach, the Bach at Erzberg, the Rotbach by Bach from Rückersbergerhof who Felsbach who Wäschbach and Nonnweiler Bach. ^{/sup>

References

* Topographic Map 1: 25.000
* GeoExplorer Rhineland-Palatinate

Rivers of Saarland
Rivers of the Hunsrück
Rivers of Germany

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