Location Saxony, Germany Basin size 50 km² | River system Elbe Landmarks Villages: Pobershau | |
Main source Source region: ca. 2 km northwest of Kühnhaide
ca. 760 m above sea level (NN) River mouth near Pobershau into the Black Pockau
ca. 490 m above sea level (NN) | ||
The Red Pockau (German: Rote Pockau) is a 10 kilometre long left tributary of the Black Pockau in the Ore Mountains.
It rises at a height of about 760 m above sea level (NN), about two kilometres northwest of the village of Kühnhaide in the municipality of Marienberg. Between the Marienberg and the roughly 100 metre higher Kühnhaide plateaux the Red Pockau has cut deeply into the terrain. Below the pond of the Rätzteiche there is a steep-sided V-shaped valley that becomes more canyon-like below Pobershau. At the northern exit of Pobershau it collects the Schlettenbach 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).
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