Lauter (Blau)
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| Lauter | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Germany |
| States | Baden-Württemberg |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• location | Blau |
• coordinates | 48°25′09″N 9°54′09″E / 48.4193°N 9.9024°E |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Blau→ Danube→ Black Sea |
Lauter (German pronunciation: [ˈlaʊtɐ] ⓘ) is a small river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Blau near Blaustein.
The Lauter River rises on the southern edge of the Swabian Alb in Lautern, a district of the town of Blaustein, in a karst spring, the Lautertopf. This spring has an average discharge of 600 liters per second and is one of the most powerful springs in the Swabian Alb. Next to the spring is the old pumping station, which supplied several communities with drinking water as early as 1873 as part of the Alb water supply system. The outflowing water flows from the spring in two branches, which rejoin after a few meters.
The Lauter flows southeast through the approximately five-kilometer-long Kleine Lautertal valley. Designated a nature reserve in 1995, it covers 280 hectares
and is the second largest in the Alb-Donau district.
In Herrlingen, also a district of the town of Blaustein, it flows into the Blau.
