| Sinn | |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Germany |
| Subdivision Type2: | States |
| Subdivision Name2: | Hesse and Bavaria |
| Subdivision Type3: | Reference no. |
| Subdivision Name3: | DE: 2448 |
| Length: | 69.4km (43.1miles) |
| Source1 Location: | near Oberwildflecken |
| Source1 Elevation: | c. |
| Mouth Location: | near Gemünden into the Franconian Saale |
| Mouth Elevation: | c. |
| Basin Size: | 623.78 km2[1] |
| Discharge1 Min: | Average low: 1,174 L/s |
| Discharge1 Avg: | 5,869 L/s |
| Tributaries Right: | Ziegelhüttengraben, Disbach, Höllgraben, Leinbach, Krechenbach, Schmale Sinn, Gronaubach, Jossa, Aura, Fliesenbach |
| Tributaries Left: | Oberbach, Mittelbach, Trockenbach, Mitzbach, Röthbach, Kretzengraben |
| Custom Label: | References |
The Sinn is a river that flows through the state of Hesse and the Bavarian province of Lower Franconia in southern Germany. It is about 69km (43miles) long and is a right, northerly tributary of the Franconian Saale.
The Sinn emerges in the Franconian Rhön at the foot of the Kreuzberg near the local subdistrict (Gemarkung) of Neuwildflecken. At Zeitlofs on the Hessian-Lower Franconian border it flows into the Schmale Sinn which joins it from the Dammersfeldkuppe to the northeast.
Accompanied in places by the Würzburg−Fulda railway and crossed by the A 7 motorway bridge below Riedenberg, the Sinn initially flows in a southwesterly and then in a southerly direction to Gemünden, where it joins the Franconian Saale just under 700 m before the latter river discharges into the River Main.
The tributaries of the Sinn include (in downstream order): Oberbach, Schmale Sinn, Gronau, Jossa and Aura.
The towns and villages along the Sinn and Schmale Sinn include (in downstream order):
Wildflecken, Oberbach, Riedenberg, Bad Brückenau, Eckarts-Rupboden, Zeitlofs, Altengronau, Jossa, Obersinn, Mittelsinn, Burgsinn, Rieneck, Schaippach, Gemünden, (Oberzell).
Kothen, Speicherz, the A 7 Grenzwald Bridge, Oberzell, Weichersbach, Mottgers
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.