Heavy rain and floods were also reported from Saxony on Saturday.
Several locations were no longer accessible.
Bad Schandau / Bautzen - The flood disaster in Germany has left a path of devastation.
Saxony was also hit by immense rainfall and heavy flooding at the weekend.
In Saxon Switzerland, several places were hit by severe flooding.
The administration of the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains warned of a "considerable danger situation".
Several locations in cities and communities were no longer accessible on Saturday.
Neustadt, Sebnitz, Bad Schandau, Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna and Gohrisch are particularly affected, the district office informed in the evening.
The railway line between Bad Schandau and the Czech Decin was closed.
"The situation is tense, but manageable," said the situation center of the Interior Ministry in Dresden at the request of the German Press Agency.
Heavy rain and floods in Saxony: sometimes more than 100 liters of rain per square meter
According to the state flood center, it rained more than 100 liters per square meter within 24 hours in the catchment area of the Kirnitzsch and Sebnitz rivers. In Lichtenhain-Mittelndorf it was 110 liters, in Weifa 104 liters. As a result, the water levels of numerous rivers swelled rapidly. Alert level 4 was exceeded on the Polenz, in the lower reaches of the Kirnitzsch, the Sebnitz and the Lachsbach there was an "extreme rise in water level". “Heavy floods are to be expected,” the experts warned in the evening.
The regional control center in Dresden spoke of more than 250 missions since the afternoon.
In Saxon Switzerland, streets and cellars were flooded and slopes slipped.
In addition to smaller rivers that were extremely swollen, the large amount of water has made its way down the slopes, it said.
For the time being, nothing was known of injuries or major evacuations.
Floods: parts of Saxony hit by storms until late at night
For large parts of Saxony, the German Weather Service warned of storms up to level 3 of 4 on Saturday into the night.
As a result, there had been numerous deployments of rescue workers in other regions too - for example in eastern Saxony in the districts of Bautzen and Görlitz.
There too, heavy rain had flooded the streets and cellars.
In addition, the water levels in the Lusatian Neisse area rose considerably.
Alert level 4 was exceeded at the gauge in Zittau.
Floods in Germany: Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to visit the affected areas in the Eifel on Sunday
The extreme heavy rain of the past few days left pictures of horror and devastation in Germany.
The Eifel region in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia is particularly affected.
But also in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria there was severe storm damage from floods.
A disaster has been declared in Berchtesgaden.
In addition, the next weather warning for Bavaria * already applies.
In Austria, too, dangerous flash floods have formed in some cities.
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) wants to visit the hard hit areas of Ahrweiler and Schuld in the Eifel (Rhineland-Palatinate) on Sunday.
Previously, the Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (CDU) had caused criticism with a hearty laugh * when visiting the crisis areas in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Railway line between Bad Schandau and Decin closed due to storms
Problems with flooded basements and basements were also reported locally from West Saxony, for example in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Oberlungwitz and Wüstenbrand.
Some residents built blockades to protect their homes.
The disruption of the railway line between Bad Schandau and Decin is expected to last until Sunday afternoon, informed Deutsche Bahn.
“Long-distance trains end and begin in Dresden Hauptbahnhof.” In long-distance traffic, it affects the Hamburg-Berlin-Dresden-Prague connection.
There were also failures in local traffic, replacement traffic by buses could not be set up due to difficult road conditions, it said.
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