The Elbe also surpassed record levels in Lower Saxony, but the dykes there were still holding, according to Ulrich Mentz of the Lüneburg district. In Bleckede, the river had risen to 11.46 metres ...

Its lower water levels and narrower passages mean that river cruise ships on the Elbe are more restricted ... The river also winds through the Saxony wine region, known for its Muller-Thurgau ...

The Elbe was nearly 4 meters (13 feet ... Saxony-Anhalt's state capital, Magdeburg. In Lower Saxony, the Serengeti-Park on the swollen Meisse River in the town of Hodenhagen faced flooding ...

the River Elbe's levels are unusually high but it has not yet come to floodingImage: Robert Michael/dpa/picture alliance Lower Saxony — First signs of situation easing, extra help in from France ...

A man cleans the bank of river Elbe in front of the ... "It's beyond comparison." In the Saxony-Anhalt city of Bitterfeld, an attempt to blow open another levee to lower waters threatening the ...

Only isolated showers are expected in some parts of flooded Lower Saxony on Saturday ... In the eastern state of Saxony, flooding of the Elbe River continues to recede, with the water level ...

This posting is a continuation of the first part entitled "Royal Dragoons and the German retreat in Lower Saxony" I had ... Cuxhaven at the mouth of the river Elbe, and had been dumping in the ...

East Germany is still bracing for the worst with the river Elbe expected to crest on Thursday ... the northern states of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and ...

xiv. p. 498, some particulars are given of measurements made in 1871 and 1872 of the water flowing past in the Elbe at the boundary between Saxony and Bohemia. The river basin in Bohemia above ...