Kleine Steinau

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The Small Steinau, called the upper reaches also shingle ditch, is a 8.7 km long, north and orographic right tributary of the Sieber, north-northwest of Herzberg am Harz in the district of Osterode am Harz in Lower Saxony.

The Small Steinau is located in the Upper Harz Harz nature park. It rises to about 690 m above sea level. NN between the shingle and the head lying on the ridge arable philistine cliff. First, it flows in a westerly, then south-west and later in a southerly direction, and then a little west of the mouth of the Great Steinau at the small settlement Aschenhütte to around 210 m above sea level. NN to open into the Or - inflow Sieber.