The Kieselbach is a right

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of the

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, and is long.

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The Kieselbach rises in Ernstthal (city quarter of

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) close to the rail station Ernstthal am Rennsteig and the

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, at the watershed between

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and

in the

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. On its way northeast through the

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, the Kieselbach flows first through the Finsterer Grund (Dark Valley), where a now closed section of the Sonneberg – Probstzella single-track railway line passes over it on a viaduct. Finally it reaches the housing estate Waschdorf (western municipality part of

). In Waschdorf it unites with the Little Lichte and follows as ''Lichte River'' further the ''Lichte Valley'' to the Leibis-Lichte Dam and to the mouth into the Schwarza.

References

* Albert Broedel, A contribution to the history of the Lichte Municipality composed as to official sources 1937 – 1939; issued by W. Broedel, Kulmbach, March 7, 1997. Rivers of Thuringia Lichte Rivers of Germany {{Thuringia-river-stub

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