The Sinn is a river that flows through the state of Hesse

Hesse

Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...

 and the Bavaria

Bavaria

Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

n province of Lower Franconia

Lower Franconia

Lower Franconia is one of the three administrative regions of Franconia in Bavaria , Germany ....

 in southern Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It is about 50 kilometres (31.1 mi) long and is a right, northerly tributary of the Franconian Saale.

Course

The Sinn emerges in the Franconian Rhön at the foot of the Kreuzberg

Kreuzberg (Rhön)

The Kreuzberg is one of the Rhön Mountains in southern Germany. It is about high and is located in the Bavarian part of the Rhön, in the province of Lower Franconia. The Kreuzberg — also referred to as the "sacred mountain of the Franconians" — is near the town of Bischofsheim an der Rhön in the...

 near the local subdistrict (Gemarkung) of Neuwildflecken. At Zeitlofs

Zeitlofs

Zeitlofs is a municipality in the district of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria in Germany....

 on the Hessian-Lower Franconian border it flows into the Schmale Sinn

Schmale Sinn

Schmale Sinn is a river of Hesse, Germany.-See also:*List of rivers of Hesse...

 which joins it from the Dammersfeldkuppe

Dammersfeldkuppe

At the Dammersfeldkuppe in Bavaria is the second highest mountain after the Wasserkuppe in the Rhön, a low mountain range straddling the states of Bavaria, Hesse and Thuringia in Germany.- Location :...

 to the northeast.

Accompanied in places by the Würzburg−Fulda railway and crossed by the A 7 motorway bridge below Riedenberg

Riedenberg

Riedenberg is a municipality in the district of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria in Germany....

, the Sinn initially flows in a southwesterly and then in a southerly direction to Gemünden

Gemünden am Main

Gemünden am Main is a town in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany and lies roughly 40 km down the Main from Würzburg.- Location :...

, where it joins the Franconian Saale just under 700 m before the latter river discharges into the River Main.

Tributaries

The tributaries of the Sinn include (in downstream order): Oberbach, Schmale Sinn, Gronau, Jossa and Aura.

Towns and villages

The towns and villages along the Sinn and Schmaler Sinn include (in downstream order):

Sinn

Wildflecken

Wildflecken

Wildflecken is a municipality in the Bad Kissingen district, at the border of northeastern Bavaria and southern Hesse. In 2005, its population was 3,285; the postal code is 97772. Wildflecken is in the picturesque Rhön hills and nature-park....

, Oberbach, Riedenberg

Riedenberg

Riedenberg is a municipality in the district of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria in Germany....

, Bad Brückenau

Bad Brückenau

Bad Brückenau is a spa town in Bad Kissingen district in northern Bavaria. It is situated in the Rhön Mountains, 30 kilometers south of Fulda.-Geography:Bad Brückenau is located in the valley of the River Sinn, in the western part of the Rhön Mountains...

, Eckarts-Rupboden, Zeitlofs

Zeitlofs

Zeitlofs is a municipality in the district of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria in Germany....

, Altengronau, Jossa

Jossa

Jossa is a village in the German municipality of Sinntal in Main-Kinzig-Kreis in the state of Hesse. Jossa lies within the Spessart nature park and is a state-recognised health resort. The village has 664 inhabitants and covers an area of . Its councillor is Günter Walther ....

, Obersinn

Obersinn

Obersinn is a market community in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Burgsinn.- Location :...

, Mittelsinn

Mittelsinn

Mittelsinn is a community in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Burgsinn.- Location :...

, Burgsinn

Burgsinn

Burgsinn is a market community in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany and the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Burgsinn.- Geography :...

, Rieneck

Rieneck

Rieneck is a town in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany.- Location :...

, Schaippach, Gemünden

Gemünden am Main

Gemünden am Main is a town in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany and lies roughly 40 km down the Main from Würzburg.- Location :...

Schmale Sinn

Kothen, Speicherz, the A 7 Grenzwald Bridge, Oberzell, Weichersbach, Mottgers

Nature

The existence of the extremely rare Snake's Head Fritillary in the Sinn Valley has been recorded since the 19th century. This plant occurs at heights between 160 and 250 metres in various meadow communities, especially in the wet meadows of the two nature reserves that border one another: the Sinngrund near Obersinn and Sinnwiesen von Altengronau.