The Müglitz is a river, about long, and a left

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of the

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in the German state of

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It rises in the

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on the border between the German state of

and the

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near the demolished Bohemian village of (German: ''Böhmisch Müglitz'') from two headstreams: * The White Müglitz (, ) rises near the border by the former village of (German: ''Vorderzinnwald'') and then forms the border stream with Saxony. * The Black Müglitz (, ''Schwarzbach'', ''Sörnitz'' or ''Sernitz'', ) rises near the abandoned village of (Cz: ''Habartice'') and its middle reaches flow through the northern part of the Black Meadows (''Schwarzen Wiesen''; the color label refers to the boggy character of the land). The name ''Sörnitz'' comes from Slavic ''zornice'' 'mill stream'. During severe weather on 8 July 1927 the stream became a torrent that tore up the ground, changed its riverbed, and flowed down the valley as a

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. From its source in the Haberfeld Forest (), the stream forms the state border for about . From the German village of (part of Altenberg), that lies only just below the confluence of the White and Black Müglitz, the Müglitz runs entirely on Saxon territory. It flows by several villages including (a district of Altenberg), Glashütte,

Müglitztal Müglitztal is a municipality in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in Saxony, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to th ...

, and

Dohna Dohna is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, Saxony, Germany. It is located south of Heidenau, in the Müglitz (river), Müglitz valley and lies at the northeastern foot of the Eastern Ore Mountains. It is accessed by the P ...

, before emptying into the

Heidenau Heidenau is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in Saxony, Germany. The town is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, 13 km southeast of Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is ...

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* Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin d. ''Um Altenberg, Geising und Lauenstein.''

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, 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, .

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The 2002 flood in the Müglitz valley
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