The Golzerner weir was used in the 1860s to damming the hollow and was built to provide the local paper mill with electricity (hydroelectric power plant). After the two floods in 2002 and 2013, the paper mill was closed.

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Has gone through two millennium floods in a decade. The first was in 2002

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Elevation 170 m

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Saturday 14 March

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Location: Grimma, Landkreis Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

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