Kyll

Kyll just before the confluence with the Moselle

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The Kyll is a left tributary of the Moselle and the water- richest and longest river in the southern Eifel (10 m³ / s, 142 km). It is formed in Zitterwald from three source streams at Losheimergraben at the German - Belgian border. One of the headwaters originates in the Belgian part of the village Losheimer digging in the basement of a hotel. The first east west oriented Kylltal forms after a few kilometers, the natural border between the Zitterwald and the southern Schnee Eifel. West of Kronenburg the Kyll is dammed to Kronenburger lake. From Stadtkyll the river turns to the south. In Gerolstein it breaks through the foothills of the Eifel and crosses in its tortuous course of the lower plateaus of Waldeifel (also called Kylleifel ) to open at Ehrang into the Moselle. Your running touches, from the Belgian border basis, the districts of Euskirchen, Volcanic Eifel, Bitburg -Prüm and Trier -Saar castle. The Kyll is one of the largest inner- German rivers of Rhineland -Palatinate, as the significantly larger rivers Moselle, Saar and Sauer are cross-border.

Name interpretation

The name comes from the Celtic word Kyll for " Bach", gilum back, which has developed in the Middle Ages to Kila. The Roman historian Ausonius reported on the Kyll called Celbis.

Tributaries

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Places

Places on the Kyll are Kronenburg ( reservoir), Stadtkyll, Juenkerath, Lissendorf Birgel, Oberbettingen, Dohm, Bewingen, Rockeskyll, Pelm Gerolstein Birresborn, Mürlenbach, Densborn, Wilsecker, Malberg, Bitburg - Erdorf, Hüttingen, Philipp Heim, Auw an the Kyll, Kyll at the Kyll, Daufenbach, cord and Trier- Ehrang.