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 .
7-775: The ruins are located above the confluence of the Warme Bode and Kalte Bode rivers in the Harz Mountains in central Germany. They lie at a height of 460 metres above sea level on the edge of a wooded plateau and offer a good view of the Wurmberg and the Brocken , the highest mountains in Lower Saxony and the Harz respectively. In 1312 the site is first mentioned in the records as castrum Königshof when Bishop Albrecht von Halberstadt purchased
14-574: Is 23 kilometres (14 mi) long and is formed by the confluence of the Große Bode and Kleine Bode rivers. The names of the Warme and Kalte Bode ('Warm' and 'Cold' Bode) come from their actual temperature difference of about 2 °C. The Große Bode ('Great Bode') is the left-hand headstream of the Warme Bode and is about 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) long. Its source is at the foot of the highest mountain in
21-643: Is united with the Kleine Bode ('Little Bode') to form the Warme Bode. The Kleine Bode is the right-hand headstream of the Warme Bode and is about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) long. It rises at the foot of the Achtermannshöhe . 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 . It continues in
28-675: 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 Ecker and the Oder . The Große Bode flows mainly southwards, on the western slopes of the Wurmberg towards Braunlage . Its course is characterised by little waterfalls and steps ( Fallstufen ) including the Oberer Bodefall . In front of Braunlage it
35-640: The Harz. Only remnants of the bergfried and several ditches and ramparts bear witness to the former castle. The ruins of the Königsburg are incorporated as No. 41 into the system of the checkpoints in the Harzer Wandernadel . Warme Bode 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
42-548: The castle from Knappen Heinrich von Botvelde. In 1324 there is another mention of it as castrum Köningshof acqisivit , then all went quiet until it is described in 1709 for the first time as Königsburg . At that time it had already fallen into ruins. When Paul Höfer carried out extensive excavations in the years from 1898 to 1901, he assumed he had discovered the long sought after palace ( Pfalz ) of Bodfeld and produced several publications about it. In 1931, Carl Schuchhardt suggested, through advances in soil research, that this
49-483: Was incorrect and, a little later, this was confirmed by Paul Grimm , who was able to establish that the finds, especially the pottery, were not older than the 13th century. Although the results of this research from the 1930s have been consistently acknowledged within the scientific community, Königshütte still advertises today that the Königsburg is the Bodfeld hunting palace and one of the most significant historical sites in
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