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18-661: 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 17 kilometres (11 mi) long. The names of the Warme and Kalte Bode ("Warm" and "Cold" Bode) come from their actual temperature difference of about 2 °C. The Kalte Bode rises in the Upper Harz at the foot of its highest mountain, the legendary Brocken , in

36-529: A colossal tenderness, and from the conquered breast of rock it issued forth like sighs of passion and languorous sounds of wistfulness. The 'most devastating' floods from the Bode occurred in the years 1539, 1667, 1730, 1740, 1772 and especially at Christmas in 1925. Only on the completion of the Rappbode Dam in 1959 could the risk of flooding be eliminated. The water quantities in the Bode can vary significantly: during

54-731: A temperature difference of 2 °C, merge not far from the Königsburg Ruins immediately before flowing into the Königshütte Dam (a feeder dam or Überleitungssperre ). Other tributaries of the Bode include the Rappbode and the Luppbode . The Rappbode is impounded near Wendefurth by the Rappbode Dam . At the northern end of this reservoir, the Rappbode joins the Bode, which is impounded here by

72-647: The Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Vorharz . It is situated at the confluence of the Goldbach and Bode rivers, east of Halberstadt . The municipal area comprises the villages of Adersleben, Deesdorf, and Rodersdorf. Wegeleben station is a stop on the Halberstadt–Vienenburg and Magdeburg–Thale railway lines. Wegeleben in the Saxon Harzgau was the site of a fortress possibly erected at

90-628: The Thirty Years' War , Wegeleben with the Bishopric of Halberstadt passed to Brandenburg-Prussia in 1648. It was finally seized as a reverted fief by the Hohenzollern king Frederick I in 1704. From 1815 it was incorporated into the Prussian Province of Saxony . The town received railway access in 1862. Until 2010 Wegeleben was part of the disbanded Verbandsgemeinde Bode-Holtemme . Seats in

108-732: The Wendefurth Dam . Other tributaries of the Bode are the Goldbach , the Holtemme and the Selke . The waterfalls in the Harz are not high. The Upper Bode Falls ( Obere Bode-Fall ) on the Warme Bode are really a fast-flowing stream ( Sturzbach ) with small steps about 1 metre in height. Likewise the Lower Bode Falls ( Untere Bode-Fall ) on the Warme Bode is simply ledge of similar height. The Bodekessel in

126-621: The Bode Gorge is a former step in a large hollow, that was reduced in height in 1798 from 2 metres to 1 metre by explosive. The fourth waterfall is in the Kästental . The Bode winds its way between Treseburg and Thale through a 10-kilometre (6 mi) long, narrow valley, the Bode Gorge . Today, the valley is a nature reserve . The Bode Gorge and its villages are the primary setting for Theodor Fontane ’s novel, Cécile . The river then crosses

144-637: The Bode has a specific catchment area in the Harz, that is part of the catchment area of the Bode. The catchment areas of the various reservoirs are as follows: for the Wendefurth Reservoir, 309.2 square kilometres (119.4 sq mi), for the Rappbode Pre-Dam and Rappbode Reservoirs, 269 square kilometres (104 sq mi), and for the Königshütte Reservoir, 154.2 square kilometres (59.5 sq mi). The Mandelholz Dam impounds

162-434: The Bode ist about 3000 km² in area. Important tributaries within the Harz are the Rappbode and the Luppbode . The Rappbode is impounded at Wendefurth by the Rappbode Dam . At the northern end of the reservoir the Rappbode joins the Bode which is also impounded by the Wendefurth Dam . Other tributaries are the Goldbach , the Holtemme and the largest one, the Selke . In a hydrological sense every source stream of

180-602: The Harz Foreland in a curving and, in places, diked and canalised, course until it discharges into the Saale at Nienburg . Important Bode tributaries are the Selke and the Holtemme. Other towns on the Bode river are Quedlinburg , Wegeleben , Gröningen , Oschersleben , Hadmersleben , Egeln and Staßfurt . The Bode gorge north of Thale is now a protected area . The catchment area of

198-574: 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 to form the Bode. Bode (river) According to tradition, there was once a giant called Bodo who came from Thuringia , in modern-day central Germany, to pursue Brunhilde ,

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216-571: The New Year flooding in 1925 a discharge of 350 cubic metres per second (12,000 cu ft/s) was recorded, whereas in the following summer of 1926 it fell to just 0.35 cubic metres per second (12 cu ft/s). Wegeleben Wegeleben ( German pronunciation: [ˈveːɡəˌleːbm̩] ) is a town in the Harz district, in Saxony-Anhalt , Germany . It is the administrative seat of

234-657: The behest of King Henry the Fowler during the Hungarian invasions in the 10th century. The castle later served as a residence of the Prince-Bishops of Halberstadt . The adjacent settlement was mentioned as a town ( civitas ) in the 13th century, when it had been fortified with defensive walls and city gates. The ruling Ascanian counts ceded their fief in pawn to the Bishop of Halberstadt in 1288 and finally sold it in 1318. Ravaged by

252-449: The gorge, however, the princess lost her golden crown, which was now guarded by the dog Bodo in the valley of the river. The river was given the name Bode after the giant Bodo who was now under a spell. The Bode is heavily divided in its source region on the Brocken , the highest peak in the Harz, but its two most important source streams are the: The two rivers, which actually have

270-399: The king's beautiful daughter, whom he wanted to marry against her will. Brunhilde fled on a white stallion ( Ross ), but they suddenly came to a deep ravine. With one bold leap she reached the rocks on the far side, but her pursuer fell into the abyss. The hoofprint of her horse can still be seen today as the so-called Rosstrappe . Meanwhile, Bodo was turned into a dog. As her horse leapt

288-552: The romantic Bode valley in his 1826 travelogue Die Harzreise : That dusky beauty, the Bode, did not receive me very graciously, and when I first caught sight of her in the smithy-like darkness of the Rübeland, she seemed even sullen and shrouded herself in a silver-grey veil of rain: but in a rush of love she threw it off when I reached the heights of the Roßtrappe, her face lit up opposite me in sunny splendour, from every aspect breathed

306-666: 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 . The Kalte Bode flow initially eastwards to Schierke , along the northern slopes of the Wurmberg . In Schierke it changes direction and heads south. In the Elendstal , a wild and romantic valley between Schierke and Elend ,

324-700: The water of the Kalte Bode . The total catchment area of the Bode is about 3,000 square kilometres (1,200 sq mi). In the Early Middle Ages the Bode formed the border between the provinces of the Harzgau in the west and the Schwabengau in the east. The two most important Bode crossings at that time were the settlements of Ditfurt und Gröningen, mentioned frequently in the Fuldau annals. Heinrich Heine depicts

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