Köttelbeck
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 The Köttelbeck in Bargfeld, just before it flows into the Lutter |
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| location | Lower Saxony , Germany | |
| River system | Weser | |
| Drain over | Lutter → Laughed → Aller → Weser → North Sea | |
| source | south-east ofheelsloh 52 ° 43 ′ 10 ″ N , 10 ° 24 ′ 55 ″ E |
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| Source height | 82 m above sea level NN | |
| muzzle | in the south of Bargfeld Coordinates: 52 ° 42 ′ 3 ″ N , 10 ° 20 ′ 41 ″ E 52 ° 42 ′ 3 ″ N , 10 ° 20 ′ 41 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 61 m above sea level NN | |
| Height difference | 21 m | |
| Bottom slope | 3.8 ‰ | |
| length | 5.5 km | |
The Köttelbeck (also: Kötelbeck, Niederdt. "Köttel" = excrement, rubbish) is a 5.5 kilometer long Heidebach in the southern Lüneburg Heath . It rises in a small marsh east of the road from Steinhorst after Räderloh in Gifhorn , then flows more than three kilometers almost straight through the Postmoor west and flows on the southern edge of Bargfeld in Celle district from the left (east) onto Lutter .
In the story Caliban about Setebos by Arno Schmidt it is portrayed, also as a symbolic body of water that the narrator crosses on his way to Hades .