The Kuttenbach is a 5.3 kilometre-long,

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left-hand tributary of the

Urft Kall is a municipality in the district of Euskirchen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Eifel hills, approximatively 20 km south-west of Euskirchen Euskirchen (; Ripuarian: ''Öskerche'') is a town in N ...

in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the municipality of Kall.

Geography

The Kuttenbach rises north of Krekel at a height of in the nature reserve of the ''Sistiger Heide'', which is also called Krekel Heath (‘’Krekeler Heide’’). From here on the stream flows constantly northeastwards and, after a short distance, reaches the village of

Diefenbach Diefenbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography The municipality lies at the edge ...

. Its valley then separates the villages of Gillenberg on the right and Steinfelderheistert on the left. Soon is slopes become wooded and, on the right, is the nature reserve of ''Laubwald am Kuttenbach'' below the village of Steinfeld with

Steinfeld Abbey Steinfeld Abbey (''Kloster Steinfeld'') is a former Premonstratensian monastery, now a Salvatorian convent, with an important basilica, in Steinfeld in Kall, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. History The origins of the site go back to about 920. ...

on the upper step of the hillside. The stream finally empties from the left into the

between the villages of

and Sötenich at river kilometre 22.3.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuttenbach Rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia Rivers of the Eifel Euskirchen (district) Rivers of Germany