Bode (river)

Map of the catchment area

Aerial view of the river basin

The Bode in Thale

The Bode is a left tributary of the Saale in Saxony- Anhalt. It originates with two source rivers in the Harz and drained it in a northeasterly direction. After 169 km it flows in Nienburg in the Saale.

  • 4.1 Origin of the name
  • 4.2 story about the origin of the name
  • 4.3 Literary Reception

Geography

Source and catchment areas

The two sources of Bode drain the southern area of the Brocken, the highest peak in the Harz Mountains:

  • The Cold Bode (17 km long) rises at Bodesprung 860 meters above sea level. NN.
  • The larger Warme Bode (23 km long) has its headwaters in the Bode fraction, which belongs to the Brocken field and is, in turn, from the headwaters Large Bode ( left) and Small Bode ( right).

The Warme Bode joins the approximately 2 ° C colder Cold Bode, near the ruins of the royal castle just before the reservoir head of the dam Chorzów ( transition block) will be Bode.

Course

The Bode is the largest valley system within the resin and runs in windungsreichem valley through the undulating plateaus of the Lower Harz. In the last ten kilometers inside the mountain, the Bode between Treseburg and valley winds through a narrow valley, the actual Bode Gorge, the lowermost section is the deepest except alpine canyon Germany. This section of the valley is a nature reserve.

Then she crosses in some curved, some eingedämmtem and straightened path the Harz foothills until it joins up with Nienburg in the Saale. Cities on the lower Bode are Quedlinburg, ways of life, Groningen, Oschersleben, Hadmersleben, leeches and Staßfurt.

Tributaries

Important tributaries within the resin are Rappbode and Luppbode. The Rappbode is dammed by the Rappbode reservoir at Wendefurth. At the north end of the dam, the Rappbode combined with the Bode, which is dammed here in the dam Wendefurth. Other major tributaries are the Goldbach, the Holtemme and, as the largest, the Selke.

  • Pape Bach ( Chorzów )
  • Jordan Bach ( Quedlinburg )
  • Aspic ( Ditfurt )
  • Goldbach ( way of life )
  • Holtemme ( Nienhagen )
  • Limbach ( Krottorf )
  • Large trench ( Oschersleben )
  • Geesgraben ( other life )
  • Sarre (Great Germersleben )
  • Bisdorfer redness ( Unseburg )
  • Rappbode ( Wendefurth )
  • Luppbode ( Treseburg )
  • Wurmsbach ( Neinstedt )
  • Quarmbach ( Quedlinburg )
  • Bicklingsbach ( Quedlinburg )
  • Potions trench ( Ditfurt )
  • Selke ( Hedersleben )
  • Ehle
  • Der Beek ( Staßfurt )
  • Liethe ( Staßfurt )

Waterfalls

The natural waterfalls in the resin are not high. The Upper Bode case at the warm Bode is a torrent with small drop heights of about 1 m in height, the lower Bode case, also on the warm Bode, is a winnowing step the same amount. The Bodekessel in the Bode Valley is a former stage in a magnificent canyon, which in 1798 lowered by blowing up of former height of 2 m to 1 m. The fourth waterfall is located in the Kästental.

The confluence of the Warm ( left) and the Cold Bode ( right) at Chorzów

The Bode Valley from the entrance to the nature reserve Treseburg Bode Valley

Look at the Bode bridge in Staßfurt

Hydrological aspects

Devastating floods the Bode are for 1539, 1667, 1730, 1740, 1772 and particularly narrated by Christmas 1925. Only after the completion of the Rappbodetalsperre 1959, the risk of flooding could be dispelled. The amount of water the Bode can vary greatly: during the New Year's flood of 1925, a discharge of 350 m³ / s was found, whereas it is only 0.35 m³ / s were the following summer 1926. Another devastating flood there after heavy rains in April 1994. Here, large areas were along the Bode run, despite the large dam system under water.

Dams of the Bode

See also: Dams in the Harz

In the catchment area of the Bode ( a total of 3229 km ²) is the largest dam system of the resin. The sub - catchments amount for the dam Wendefurth 309.20 km ², for Rappbodevorsperre and Rappbodetalsperre 269.00 km ² and for the dam Königshütte 154.2 km ². The almond wood dam dammed the water of the Cold Bode.

History and Culture

In the early Middle Ages, the Bode formed the border between the Harzgau the west and the Schwabengau in the east. The two most important Bode transitions in this period were the repeatedly mentioned in the annals Fuldauer places Ditfurt and Groningen.

Origin of the name

The name survives in many forms since the first documented consideration as Buda ( 775). In addition to the present form of the name Bode it was mainly in the form of Bada, both also with the akkusativischen suffix -am. Since 1334 the name Bode is still occupied. The name is attributed to the Gothic bauths, bautha (mute). The volume change from ingwäonischem o and a in the old deeds goes back to an Old Frisian au.

Legend about the origin of the name

According to tradition, the name of the following legend is derived: From Thuringia pursued once the giant Bodo the beautiful princess Brunhilde, whom he wanted to marry against their will. Brunhilde fled on a white horse, but did suddenly in front of her, a deep abyss. She sat on a bold leap to the otherworldly rocks, but the pursuers rushed into the depths. The hoof print of the horse can still be seen today in the so-called Roßtrappe. The giant Bodo has been transformed into a dog. In the jump, the Princess lost her golden crown, which is guarded by the dog Bodo on the bottom of the river. After the enchanted giant Bodo river was named Bode.

Literary reception

The Bode Valley and its villages are the main venue of Theodor Fontane's novel Cécile.

" The dark beauty who Bode, I did not receive so graciously, and when I saw her in wrought dark Rübeland first, she seemed quite grumpy and covered herself in a silver-gray veil of rain: but with rapid love she threw him off when I'm on the level the Roßtrappe arrived, her face shone out to me in a very sunny splendor, from all trains breathed a colossal tenderness, and from the Vanquished rocks breast there came forth like longing sigh and melting sounds of melancholy. "

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