The Red Pockau (german: Rote Pockau) is a left tributary of the
Black Pockau
The Black Pockau (german: Schwarze Pockau or ''Schwarzwasser'', cz, Černá) is a river of Saxony, Germany, in the Ore Mountains. It is a left tributary of the Flöha. This virtually unspoilt wild stream with a length of is known for the pictu ...
in the
Ore Mountains.
Course
It rises at a height of about 760 m above
sea level (NN), about northwest of the village of in the municipality of
Marienberg
Marienberg is a town in Germany. It was the district capital of the Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis (Central Ore Mountains district) in the southern part of Saxony, and since August 2008 it has been part of the new district of Erzgebirgskreis. As of ...
. Between the Marienberg and the roughly 100 metre higher Kühnhaide plateaux the Red Pockau has cut deeply into the terrain. Below the ponds called the
Rätzteiche, there is a steep-sided
V-shaped valley
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that becomes more canyon-like below Pobershau. At the northern exit of Pobershau it collects the
Schlettenbach
The Schlettenbach is a river of Saxony, Germany. It flows into the Red Pockau near Rittersberg.
See also
*List of rivers of Saxony
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stream. A few hundred metres further on the Red Pockau discharges into the Black Pockau at a height of about 490 m above sea level (NN).
Tributaries
* Nasser Brückenbach (r)
* Weißwasser (l)
** Rotepfützenbach (l)
* Mothäuser Bach (r)
* Wildsbergbach (r)
* Bärengrundbach (l)
* Goldkronenbach (r)
*
Schlettenbach
The Schlettenbach is a river of Saxony, Germany. It flows into the Red Pockau near Rittersberg.
See also
*List of rivers of Saxony
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(l)
Name
In former times, the Red Pockau used to be called "the Little Bockau or the Red Water" (''die kleine Bockau oder das rothe Wasser'') and the Black Pockau (''Schwarze Pockau'') the "Great Bockau" (''Große Bockau'') or "the Black Water" (''das schwarze Wasser'').
[Karl von Weber (ed.): ''Archiv für die Sächsische Geschichte'', Vol. 5, Bernhard Tauchnitz Verlag, Leipzig, 1867, p. 25]
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See also
*List of rivers of Saxony
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* List (surname)
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References
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Rivers of Saxony
Rivers of the Ore Mountains
Rivers of Germany