Kleine Kulmke is river of

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, in the

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Mountains, a tributary of the Große Kulmke. The Kleine Kulmke rises at a height of 690 m near the ''Schmierplatz'' on the

Auf dem Acker Auf dem Acker (commonly called the ''Acker'') is a mountain ridge up to high, which is located in the southwestern part of the Harz mountains in Lower Saxony (Germany). Geography The ridge begins south of the Bruchberg near ''Stieglitzecke'' ...

ridge north-northeast of Sieber in the district of

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and flows initially southwards to its confluence with the Verlorene Kulmke ("Lost Kulmke", 428 m), from which it is separated by the Kleiner Wurzelnberg hill. It then flows in a southwest to south-southwest direction before uniting with the Große Kulmke ("Big Kulmke") after at a height of 392 m. The valley of the Kleine Kulmke partly belongs to the Sieber Valley (''Siebertal'') nature reserve.

Sources

*Topographische Karte 1:25000, No. 4228 Riefensbeek

External links

Sieber Valley Nature Reserve
at the website of the

Lower Saxon State Department for Waterway, Coastal and Nature Conservation The Lower Saxon Department for Water, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN) () is a department of the state of Lower Saxony, with its headquarters in Norden (Ostfriesland) and is responsible to the Minister for the Environment and Climate Protec ...

(NLWKN) Rivers of Lower Saxony Rivers of the Harz Göttingen (district) Rivers of Germany {{LowerSaxony-river-stub

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