Müglitz (river)

Müglitz
The Müglitz in Dohna
Location
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
Reference no.	DE: 53718
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	in the Eastern Ore Mountains on the border between Saxony and the Czech Republic
• coordinates	50°43′38″N 13°49′01″E / 50.7271484°N 13.8168802°E / 50.7271484; 13.8168802
• elevation	749 m above sea level (NN)
Heidenau Villages: Müglitztal

The Müglitz is a river, about 49 km (30 mi) long, and a left tributary of the Elbe in the German state of Saxony.

Course

It rises in the Eastern Ore Mountains on the border between the German state of Saxony and the Czech Republic near the demolished Bohemian village of Mohelnice [cs; de] (German: Böhmisch Müglitz) from two headstreams:

• The White Müglitz (German: Weiße Müglitz, Czech: Mohelnice) rises near the border by the former village of Přední Cínovec [de] (German: Vorderzinnwald) and then forms the border stream with Saxony.
• The Black Müglitz (
  mud flow. From its source in the Haberfeld Forest (German
  : Haberfeldwald), the stream forms the state border for about 2 km (1.2 mi).

• List of rivers of Saxony

Sources

• Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin [Ed.]: Um Altenberg, Geising und Lauenstein. Werte der deutschen Heimat, Band 7. Berlin 1964.
• Martin Ernst & Manfred Stephan: Rezente Hochflutsedimente der Müglitz südlich Dresden (Erzgebirge, Sachsen) im Vergleich mit Sandsteinbänken der Erdgeschichte. Jahresberichte und Mitteilungen des Oberrheinischen Geologischen Vereins, Neue Folge, 89: 11–35, Stuttgart 2007.
• Jürgen Helfricht: Wahre Geschichten um Sachsens schönstes Tal. Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha 2000,
  ISBN 3-89772-022-1
  .

• The 2002 flood in the Müglitz valley