en Little Kyll

Little Kyll
Little Kyll
	Waterfall near the Wolfsschlucht gorge
Location
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
Districts	Vulkaneifel; Bernkastel-Wittlich;
Reference no.	DE: 26784
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	On the heights of the Neroth woods in the county of Vulkaneifel
• coordinates	50°12′37″N 6°45′36″E / 50.210182°N 6.75988°E
• elevation	ca. 584 m above sea level (NHN)
Mouth
• location	Discharges south of Manderscheid into the Lieser
• coordinates	50°03′48″N 6°48′51″E / 50.06322°N 6.814206°E
• elevation	ca. 246 m above sea level (NHN)
Length	23.879 km (14.838 mi)
Basin size	83.545 km2 (32.257 sq mi)
Basin features
Progression	Lieser→ Moselle→ Rhine→ North Sea
Landmarks	Villages: Neroth, Oberstadtfeld, Niederstadtfeld, Schutz
Tributaries
• left	See table
• right	See table
	Valley of the Kleine Kyll south of its confluence with the Meerbach

The Little Kyll^[2]^[3] German: Kleine Kyll, pronounced: "kill") is a 23.9-kilometre-long (14.9 mi) orographically right-hand tributary of the Lieser.

Geography

The Little Kyll rises 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northeast of Neroth on the heights of the Neroth woods in the county of Vulkaneifel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It flows in a southerly direction through the municipalities of Neroth, Oberstadtfeld, Niederstadtfeld and Schutz and empties into the Lieser south of Manderscheid, Bernkastel-Wittlich.

The tributaries of the Little Kyll include the following (in a downstream direction):^[1]

Name	GKZ	Length (km)	Direction	Confluene after km	Location
Enzenbach	2678412	2.6	right	21.3	Neroth
Kreuzbach	26784132	0.8	right	20.5
Dehmbach		1.0	right	19.7
Bach vom Birkenberg (Winkelbach)	2678414	1.5	left	18.2	Oberstadtfeld
Risselbach		1.3	left	16.6	Niederstadtfeld
Kälberbach	2678416	3.9	right	16.2	Niederstadtfeld
Kerlbach		1.0	left	15.2	Niederstadtfeld
Walmerbach	267842	7.2	right	11.9	Schutz
Speicherbach	267844	3.5	right	10.0
Meerbach	267846	4.2	right	6.3	Meerfeld
Ellbach	26784712	2.0	right	4.7
Dombach		1.0	left	2.6	Manderscheid
Horngraben	2678472	2.5	right	1.9
Fischbach	267848	6.1	right	0.8

In the area between Oberstadtfeld and Bleckhausener Mühle/Meerfeld the cycleway Kosmosradweg [de] runs parallel to the Kleine Kyll.

At the confluence with the Horngraben, south of Manderscheid is the gorge of Wolfsschlucht^[4] as well as a waterfall.

^ ^a ^b ^c Geoexplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Authority (Wasserwirtschaftsverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz)
^ K. Baedeker (1870), The Rhine and Northern Germany: Handbook for Travellers, Coblenz: Baedeker, p. 116
^ Charles B. MacDonald, United States Army in WWII - Europe - The Siegfried Line Campaign, p. xxx
^ Wolfsschlucht und Kleine Kyll Archived 2013-10-10 at archive.today