Red Pockau
The Red Pockau is a left tributary of the Black Pockau in the Ore Mountains.Course
It rises at a height of about 760 m above sea level, about northwest of the village of 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 ponds called 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.Tributaries
- Nasser Brückenbach
- Weißwasser
- * Rotepfützenbach
- Mothäuser Bach
- Wildsbergbach
- Bärengrundbach
- Goldkronenbach
- Schlettenbach
Name
In former times, the Red Pockau used to be called "the Little Bockau or the Red Water" and the Black Pockau the "Great Bockau" or "the Black Water".
