Low water levels marked a stand-still of river transportation and a major loss of income for many families. In dry years, the so-called Hunger Rock appeared in the Elbe river. This picture was taken in Bodenbach, looking north, or downstream.

N坥k stav vody znamenal zastaven・plavby a t匇 ztr疸u ob枴vy pro mnoho rodin. Such・l騁a se zaznamen疱ala na tzv. Hladov k疥en.