Jump
| Jump | |
|---|---|
 The Kalte Bode below the Bodesprung on Sandbrinkstrasse |
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| location | |
| Country or region | Nature Park Harz / Saxony-Anhalt , Harz district , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 47 ′ 4 " N , 10 ° 35 ′ 5" E |
| height | 860 m |
| geology | |
| Mountains | resin |
| Hydrology | |
| River system | Elbe |
| Receiving waters | Cold Bode |
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 4 " N , 10 ° 35 ′ 5" E
The Bodesprung is the source of the Kalten Bode at an altitude of 860 m not far from the border between Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt in the Harz / Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park (a few meters east of the border with the Harz National Park ) southwest below the Königsberg ( 1033.5 m ) the Brockenfeld . The Kalte Bode, which rises here, flows over 17 kilometers through Schierke and Elend as well as through the Almond Wood Dam (just under 460 m ) to Königshütte , where it merges with the Warmen Bode to form the Bode.
The source brook of the Kalten Bode flows from the Bodesprung in a rather steep and rocky bed down to Schierke and takes in a large number of smaller brooks from the bogs of the Brocken area. The origins of the Große Bode , the Ecker and the Oder lie close to the Bodespungs and not far from the border .
The so-called Kolonnenweg, which was used by the border troops of the GDR up until the fall of the Wall on the inner-German border, runs along the Bodesprung. The Kolonnenweg became a now heavily used hiking trail, which is marked by the Harz Club . At the Bodesprung a wooden sign indicates the source of the Kalten Bode at this point.
The height difference of the near and only about 1.4 kilometers away Ecker jump to Bodesprung is slightly more than 10 meters. The watershed between the Weser (Eckersprung) and Elbe (Bodesprung) lies between the two sources.
history
The Wernigerode archivist and historian Christian Heinrich Delius was able to prove that in 1518, in addition to the Kalten Bode jump, there was also a Warmen Bode jump, which is mentioned in old border descriptions.
The ascent to the Brocken over the Schubenstein , the Hopfensäcke , the Bodesprung and the striking deer horns is attested as early as 1571.
On January 18, 1972, the lieutenant of the border troops of the GDR, Lutz Meier , was found north of the Bodesprung at the border column 979 with fatal gunshot wounds .
legend
There are also legends about the jump. According to this, a mermaid is said to have been seen here by a shepherd boy .
literature
- Walther Grosse : History of the city and county of Wernigerode in their forest, field and street names. (= Research and sources on the history of the Harz region, Volume 5), Wernigerode, 1929.
Individual evidence
- ^ Eduard Jacobs : The Brocken and its area - documentary contributions [...] , 1871, p. 32.
- ^ Journal of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity, Volume 30, Page 497.
- ↑ Carsten Kiehne: Legendary Brocken. With the Brockenbahn from Wernigerode to the summit. 2017, page 86.