Course The Nims rises in
Weinsheim, east of the town of
Prüm, in the
Eifel mountains. It then flows in a southerly direction through a valley of the same, passing the villages of
Schönecken and
Seffern, and the western suburbs of
Bitburg. The Nims joins the Prüm below
Irrel.
Settlements The Nims passes through or by the following settlements:
Tributaries The longest tributaries of the Nims are: •
Ehlenzbach •
Balesfelder Bach Tributaries over six kilometres long The left-hand tributaries are in dark blue, the right-hand ones on light blue, all shown in downstream order. TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:xxxx ImageSize = width:500 height:auto barincrement:25 PlotArea = left:10 right:10 top:10 bottom:40 AlignBars = justify Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(0.97,0.97,0.97) BackgroundColors = canvas:canvas Period = from:0 till:15 ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:0 gridcolor:blue BarData= barset:Flusslänge Define $left = textcolor:white color:oceanblue Define $right = textcolor:black color:skyblue PlotData= width:18 fontsize:M textcolor:black color:skyblue shift:(20,-6) anchor:from barset:Flusslänge from:start till:8.3 $left text:Schalkenbach (8.3 km) from:start till:6.1 $left text:Altburger Bach (6.1 km) from:start till:8.3 $left text:Dürrbach (8.3 km) from:start till:10.5 $left text:Balesfelder Bach (10.5 km) from:start till:13.4 $right text:Ehlenzbach (13.4 km) from:start till:7.9 $left text:Grasbach (7.9 km) TextData= fontsize:M pos:(10,20) text:km == History ==