The Little Kyll german: Kleine Kyll, pronounced: "kill") is a

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right-hand

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of the Lieser.

Geography

Course

The Little Kyll rises northeast of

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on the heights of the Neroth woods in the county of

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in the German state of

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. It flows in a southerly direction through the municipalities of

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Niederstadtfeld Niederstadtfeld is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Daun, whos ...

and

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and empties into the Lieser south of

Manderscheid, Bernkastel-Wittlich Manderscheid (in Eifel dialect: ''Maanischd'') is a town in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and also both a climatic spa and a Kneipp spa. Until 1 July 2014, when it became part of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Wi ...

Tributaries

The tributaries of the Little Kyll include the following (in a downstream direction):

Recreation

In the area between

and Bleckhausener Mühle/ Meerfeld the cycleway runs parallel to the Kleine Kyll. At the confluence with the Horngraben, south of Manderscheid is the gorge of WolfsschluchtWolfsschlucht und Kleine Kyll
as well as a waterfall.

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