Große Röder

The Great Röder (in the background ) at Would grove just before their entry into the Schwarze Elster

The Great Röder is a left tributary of the river Schwarze Elster in Saxony and Brandenburg. To the confluence with the Black Röder it is also called White Röder.

Course

The small river rises near the ramming Auer district Röder Brunn (Saxony ) in a resolution passed by wooden piles source in 326 meters. It drains the western advance of the North West Lusatian mountain and hill country. The total catchment area between Grossroehrsdorf Radeberg, Ottendorf- Okrilla and Radeburg covers 934.5 square kilometers.

The Great Röder is dammed in many ponds for carp attitude in Röder Brunn in crucian carp or Karschteich (2.8 ha) and in the pipe or tube meadow pond (2.1 ha), after 1.5 kilometers run length for bathing in Buschmühlenteich Ohorn and on Bretniger hallway on the board mill pond. Near the former Bretniger brewery opens the house Waldersbach in the Great Röder.

Having Grossroehrsdorf crosses, it flows between Wallroda and Radeberg by the Hüttertal, shortly after she takes in the famous beer town, the water of the Black Röder. Between Radeberg and Ottendorf- Okrilla it forms the Seifersdorfer valley, where at Ottendorf- Okrilla nor the springing at Pulsnitz and Leppersdorf Small Röder empties into the river. After 105 kilometers, it flows west of Elsterwerda (Brandenburg) and between Saathain Would grove in the Schwarze Elster.

Name

The river name is probably derived from Middle Low German rét from what high German Ried means - overgrown with reeds creek. He appeared in a modified form on behalf of many situated on the river towns, such as in Radeberg and Radeburg.

Pictures

Hüttertal at Radeberg

The confluence of the Great and the Black Röder

In Seifersdorfer Valley

Grundmühle in Liegau - Augustusbad

The baroque garden Zabeltitz

Confluence with the Schwarze Elster