Holzdorf Air Base was utilised as hub for all aerial rescue and support operations at the rivers Elbe, Saale, Mulde, Black Elster and White Elster as well as near Bitterfeld and in Fischbeck.
After the blowing up of the last bridge over the river, he managed to swim the Elster, but Poniatowski drowned.
The construction of the final section between Reichenbach and the Bavarian border was more difficult and required two large viaducts to cross the Göltzsch and Elster valleys.
Weisse Elster | Else Elster | Ingolf Elster Christensen | Charles Harrington Elster | Black Elster | Weiße Elster | Kevin Elster | Julius Elster | Herzberg (Elster) | Christian Hermann Weisse |
The six km-long Saale-Elster viaduct crosses some meadows in the Saale and the Weiße Elster valleys between Schkopau and Halle that are part of a protected area under the European Union’s Habitats Directive.
In November 1856, a railway committee of Oelsnitz proposed a railway link through the Elster valley from Gera via Plauen, Adorf, Elster and Asch to Eger.