Red Pockau

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Rote Pockau
Halbmeilenbach
The Rote Pockau at the Molchner Stolln show mine in Pobershau.

The Rote Pockau at the Molchner Stolln show mine in Pobershau.

Data
Water code DE : 5426864
location Saxony
River system Elbe
Drain over Schwarze Pockau  → Flöha  → Zschopau  → Freiberger Mulde  → Mulde  → Elbe  → North Sea
Headwaters approx. 2 km northwest of Kühnhaide
50 ° 35 ′ 10 ″  N , 13 ° 11 ′ 43 ″  E
Source height approx.  771  m above sea level NN
muzzle near Pobershau in the Schwarze Pockau coordinates: 50 ° 39 '26 "  N , 13 ° 12' 40"  E 50 ° 39 '26 "  N , 13 ° 12' 40"  E
Mouth height approx.  490  m above sea level NN
Height difference approx. 281 m
Bottom slope approx. 28 ‰
length approx. 10 km
Catchment area 46.6 km²
Drain MQ
 590 l / s
Left tributaries Schlettenbach
Communities Pobershau

The Rote Pockau , also known as Halbmeilenbach , is a 10 km long left tributary of the Schwarzen Pockau in the Ore Mountains .

course

It rises at a height of about 770 m above sea level. NN, about two kilometers northwest of the Marienberg district Kühnhaide . After a short run, it takes up the Zeuggraben from the left , which drains again after about 750 m. The Rote Pockau has created a deep cut in the terrain between the Marienberger and the Kühnhaidner plateau, which is around 100 meters higher. Below the Rätzteiche there is a steep Kerbtal, which turns into a Kerbsohlental in the locality of Pobershau . The Schlettenbach is recorded at the northern exit of Pobershau . A few hundred meters further, the Rote Pockau flows out at an altitude of about 490 m above sea level. NN in the Black Pockau.

Tributaries

  • Nasser Brückenbach (r)
  • White water (l)
    • Rotepfützenbach (l)
  • Mothhäuser Bach (r)
  • Wildsbergbach (r)
  • Bärengrundbach (l)
  • Goldkronenbach (r)
  • Schlettenbach (l)

additional

For the Rote Pockau the name "the small Bockau or the red water" was used and for the black Pockau the name "Große Bockau" or "the black water" was used.

literature

  • Half mile stream. In: Between Wolkenstein, Marienberg and Jöhstadt (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 41). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1985, p. 132.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl von Weber (Ed.): Archive for the Saxon History , Volume 5, Bernhard Tauchnitz Verlag, Leipzig 1867, p. 250 digitized