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 difference of about 2 °C.
Course
The Kalte Bode rises in the Upper Harz at the foot of its highest mountain, the legendary
Brocken, in the southern part of the so-called ''Brockenfeld'', on the border with
Lower Saxony, north of
Braunlage. Immediately nearby are the sources of the
Warme Bode, the
Ecker and the
Oder
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. The Kalte Bode flow initially eastwards to
Schierke, along the northern 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 ...
. In Schierke it changes direction and heads south.
In the ''Elendstal'', a wild and romantic valley between Schierke and
Elend, the Kalte Bode has to carry the huge quantities of water that run into this short section of river in spring. A few kilometres beyond Elend it is impounded in the Mandelholz retention basin, before being united with the Warme Bode beyond 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
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List of rivers of Saxony-Anhalt
External links
The Kalte Bode in the Harz
The Bode Gorge{{in lang, de
Rivers of Saxony-Anhalt
Rivers of the Harz
Rivers of Germany