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. The Kalte Bode flows initially eastwards to Schierke, along the northern slopes of the Wurmberg. In Schierke it changes direction and heads south.
In the springtime, the Kalte Bode flows at a high volume through the Elendstal, a valley between Schierke and Elend. 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.
Tributaries Left tributariesRight tributaries Schwarzes Schluftwasser Strullicken (Elend) Wormke (Mandelholz) Hirschbach Sandbeek Braunes Wasser (Schierke) Kuhbach (Neuehütte) In brackets is the location of its confluence with the Kalte Bode.
See also List of rivers of Saxony-Anhalt
External links The Kalte Bode in the Harz The Bode Gorge