DAS HOCHWASSER AM 5./6. JULI 1999 IM RAUM MARIENBERG IM ERZGEBIRGE

Description of the meteorological and hydrological conditions (short term extreme precipitations in conjunction whith thunderstorms) in a small catchment (200 km2) in the upper Elbe river basin (Saxony) and river Schwarze Pockau that led to catastrophic flood events in the mining town of Marienberg in July 1999, a town surrounded with the Ore Mountains (Erz). Overview of the legal bases of flood protection in Higher Saxony. Statistics of rain events and measurements of river levels.