The Kleine Röder or Wilde Röder is a river in the eastern German state of

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. It is about long and rises on the southwestern slopes of the Eierberg near

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in the district of

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at an elevation of . Below Leppersdorf (a village in the borough of

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), the stream changes its course from southwest to north, following the general lie of the land. It flows through Kleindittmannsdorf with its four former water mills. On the edge of the mighty Okrilla Basin Sands (''Okrillaer Beckensande'') it swings west and discharges into the Große Röder in Cunnersdorf (a village in the borough

Ottendorf-Okrilla Ottendorf-Okrilla is a municipality in the Bautzen district, Saxony, Germany. It is located 20 km northeast of Dresden. Geography The area of the municipality is 25.88 km², of which 1.58 km² are commercially used. The length from ...

). Its longest tributaries are, from the south, the

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and, from the north, the Großnaundorfer Wasser. There are frequent floods in the catchment area of the Kleinen Röder. Flood damage was recorded in the years 1958, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.Nachhaltiger Wiederaufbauplan für die Kleine Röder - Erstellung von Hochwassergefahren- und Hochwasserrisikokarten und eines Hochwasserrisikomanagementplans. Endfassung Dezember 201
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/ref> Ein großes Hochwasser trat am 12. und 13. August 2002 auf. There was particularly serious damage in Leppersdorf and Ottendorf-Okrilla. Additionally, the

plunge pool A plunge pool (or plunge basin or waterfall lake) is a deep depression in a stream bed at the base of a waterfall or Shut-in (river), shut-in. It is created by the erosion, erosional forces of cascading water on the rocks at the formation's bas ...

of the Kleindittmannsdorf Reservoir was destroyed.

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Rivers of Saxony Rivers of Germany {{Saxony-river-stub

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