Klettenberger Mühlgraben, or simply Mühlgraben, historically also called Uffe, is a river of

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. The Klettenberger Mühlgraben is a left tributary of the

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near

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. It was built in the

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as a branch from the Uffe joining into the

for driving water mills and supporting the area with service water. The naming of these waters is somewhat complicate: At the point of the branch of the Klettenberger Mühlgraben, the Uffe is already called Sachsengraben; and the Klettenberger Mühlgraben itself was called Uffe in ancient times.

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