Glotter is a river of in the Breisgau region in the south of

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which is approximately 30 km long. The spring of this river is located at an altitude of 1040 m

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on the eastern slope of the

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near Neuwelt, a suburb of St. Peter in the

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. It crosses the ''Glotter dale'' (in

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: Glottertal, which is also the name of a village). Near Riegel am Kaiserstuhl, it discharges into the Dreisam.BUND (

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Glotter - river or canal?
/ref> Near Denzlingen, much of its water is diverted towards the Elz through the stream ''Lossele''.

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