The Kander is a small
river flowing from the
southern Black Forest
The Southern Black Forest (german: Südschwarzwald) is the highest part of the Black Forest, an area heavily transformed by ice age glaciation south of a line roughly from Freiburg im Breisgau to Donaueschingen. The term High Black Forest is no ...
westward into the
Rhine.
Geography
The Kander rises at the head of the Kandertal on the
Blauen in the Black Forest. Within the first 10 km of its course to
Kandern, the Kander loses 650m of elevation. The stream has a total length of 30 km and a drop of 750m to its mouth on the Rhine near the community Märkt of the town
Weil am Rhein.
History
The name Kander comes from the
Celtic
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Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
* Celtic music
*Celtic nations
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word ''kandera'', meaning ''clear flowing''.
Transport uses
Due to the stream's small size it has no transportation function.
References
External links
Freiburg-Schwarzwald.de:Kandertal, Kandern, Kander, Marzell, Malsburg in SüdschwarzwaldGerman)
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Rivers of Baden-Württemberg
Rivers of the Black Forest
Rivers of Germany