The Warme Bode is the right-hand headstream of the
Bode in the High
Harz mountains of central Germany in the states of
Lower Saxony and
Saxony-Anhalt. It is long and is formed by the confluence of the Große Bode and Kleine Bode rivers.
Name
The names of the Warme and Kalte Bode ('Warm' and 'Cold' Bode) come from their actual temperature difference of about 2 °C.
Headstreams
Große Bode
The ''Große Bode'' ('Great Bode') is the left-hand headstream of the Warme Bode and is about long. Its source is at the foot of the highest mountain in the Harz, the
Brocken, in the southern part of the so-called ''Brockenfeld'' on the border of Saxony-Anhalt. Immediately nearby are the sources of the
Kalte Bode
The Kalte Bode is the left-hand headstream of the Bode in the High Harz Mountains in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is long.
Name
The names of the Warme and Kalte Bode ("Warm" and "Cold" Bode) come from their actual temperature differenc ...
, the
Ecker and the
Oder
The Oder ( , ; Czech, Lower Sorbian and ; ) is a river in Central Europe. It is Poland's second-longest river in total length and third-longest within its borders after the Vistula and Warta. The Oder rises in the Czech Republic and flows thr ...
. The Große Bode flows mainly southwards, on the western slopes of the
Wurmberg
Wurmberg is a municipality in the district of Enz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
Geography
Wurmberg is located on the so-called Platte, a Karst mountain range in the northern Black Forest (Schwarzwald).
Municipality
The municipality Wur ...
towards
Braunlage. Its course is characterised by little waterfalls and steps (''Fallstufen'') including the ''Oberer Bodefall''. In front of Braunlage it is united with the Kleine Bode ('Little Bode') to form the Warme Bode.
Kleine Bode
The ''Kleine Bode'' is the right-hand headstream of the Warme Bode and is about long. It rises at the foot of the
Achtermannshöhe.
Course
After the confluence of its headstreams, the Warme Bode flows over the waterfall of the ''Unterer Bodefall'' towards Braunlage. There it is joined by the
Ulrichswasser
Ulrichswasser is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Warme Bode in the town of Braunlage in the district of Goslar.
Course
The source region of the Ulrichswasser lies roughly northeast of Königskrug in the ''Kön ...
. It continues in the direction of
Sorge
Sorge may refer to:
Places
* Sorge, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, a village and former municipality
* Sorge (Eider) in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, a tributary of the Eider River
* Sorge (Lake Geneva) in Lausanne, a tributary of Lake Geneva
* Germ ...
. From the state border with Saxony-Anhalt it runs parallel to the
B 242 federal road to
Tanne.
Next the Warme Bode runs through a delightful valley and is united with the
Kalte Bode
The Kalte Bode is the left-hand headstream of the Bode in the High Harz Mountains in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is long.
Name
The names of the Warme and Kalte Bode ("Warm" and "Cold" Bode) come from their actual temperature differenc ...
near
Königshütte, below the ruins of
Königsburg
The Königsburg is a ruined medieval castle southeast of Königshütte, a village in the borough of Oberharz am Brocken, in Harz district in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Site
The ruins are located above the confluence of the Warme B ...
to form the Bode.
Tributaries
See also
*
List of rivers of Lower Saxony
*
List of rivers of Saxony-Anhalt
External links
The Warme Bode in the Harz
The Bode Gorge{{in lang, de
Rivers of Lower Saxony
Rivers of Saxony-Anhalt
Rivers of the Harz
Rivers of Germany