Red Pockau

Red Pockau

Location	Saxony,  Germany
Length	ca. 10 kmdep1
Source region	ca. 2 km northwest of Kühnhaide
Source height	ca. 760 m above sea level
Mouth	near Pobershau into the Black Pockau 50°39′25.93″N 13°12′39.89″E / 50.6572028°N 13.2110806°E / 50.6572028; 13.2110806
Mouth height	ca. 490 m above sea level
Descent	ca. 270 m
Basin	Elbe
Catchment	50 km²
Discharge	Average mid:   590 l/s
Right tributaries	Goldkronebach
Villages	Pobershau

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).