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The Bode Gorge (German: Bodetal) is a 10 km (6.2 mi) long ravine that forms part of the Bode valley between Treseburg and Thale in the Harz Mountains of central Germany. The German term, Bodetal (literally "Bode Valley"), is also used in a wider sense to refer to the valleys of the Warme and Kalte Bode rivers that feed the River Bode.
At the Bode Gorge, the River Bode, which rises on the highest mountain in the Harz, the Brocken, has cut deeply into the hard Ramberg granite rock. The ravine is about 140 m deep at Treseburg and some 280 m deep at Thale where it breaks out into the Harz Foreland. The Bode Gorge was designated a nature reserve as early as 5 March 1937; its boundaries being subsequently expanded. Its current area – 473.78 hectares (1,170.7 acres) – makes it one of the largest nature reserves in Saxony-Anhalt. (Full article...)
Geography and Nature
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- Landscape: Hercynian Forest, Upper Harz
- Animals: Bear Monument, Black Stork, Dipper, Lynx, Harz Roller, Peregrine, Boreal owl, Wildcat
- Caves: Baumann's Cave, Hermann's Cave
- Gardens : WeltWald Harz, Brocken Garden
- Geology: Rhenohercynian Zone
- Lakes and reservoirs: List, Harzwasserwerke, Brockenteich, Ecker, Innerste, Königshütte, Mandelholz, Oder, Oderteich, Oker, Neustadt, Rappbode, Silberteich, Söse, Wendefurth, Wippra
- Nature parks: Harz National Park
- Mountains: List, Achtermannshöhe, Aschentalshalbe, Auf dem Acker, Bocksberg, Brocken, Bruchberg, Carlshaushöhe, Großer Knollen, Hasselkopf, Heinrichshöhe, Hohnekamm, Jordanshöhe, Königsberg, Kuppe, Rammelsberg, Ravensberg, Rehberg, Scharfenstein, Sonnenberg, Stöberhai, Wolfsklippen, Wolfswarte, Wurmberg, Zeterklippen
- Plateaux: Alter Stolberg, Hexentanzplatz
- Regions: Mansfelder Land
- Ridges: Langfast
- Rivers: Bode, Bode Gorge, Eine, Grane, Gose, Holtemme, Ilse, Innerste, Kalte Bode, Oder, Oker, Rappbode, Rhume, Selke, Söse, Warme Bode, Wipper, Wormke, Zillierbach, Zorge
- Rock formations: Ackertklippe, Bäumlersklippe, Brockentor, Böser Kleef, Elfenstein, Froschfelsen, Gänseschnabel, Hahnenkleeklippen, Hirschhornklippen, Hoher Kleef, Hamburger Wappen, Hübichenstein, Ilsestein, Kahle Klippe, Kamelfelsen, Kästeklippen, Muxklippe, Ottofels, Roßtrappe, Schnarcherklippen, Schurre, Taubenklippe, Treppenstein
- Natural monuments: Kleine Renne, Ottofels, Mönchsbuche, Steinerne Renne
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Culture
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- Castles and stately homes: Alte Burg, Anhalt Castle, Erichsburg, Falkenstein, Grasburg, Güntersburg, Hasserode, Harzburg, Heinrichsberg, Herzberg, Hohnstein, Ilsenburg, Konradsburg, Lauenburg, Meisdorf House, Plessenburg, Scharzfels, Stapelburg, Wernigerode
- Cuisine: Harzer cheese, Schierker Feuerstein spirit
- Education: Clausthal University of Technology
- Forestry: Köte
- Language: Eastphalian, Thuringian, Upper Harz
- Legend: Princess Ilse
- Minerals: Breithauptite, Bournonite, Bronzite, Clausthalite, Goslarite, Harmotome, Harz granite, Harzburgite, Manganite, Manganosite, Pyrargyrite, Samsonite, Umangite, Zinkenite
- Mining: Medieval mining, Mining in the Upper Harz, Dennert Fir Tree, Man engine, Rammelsberg Mine, Samson Pit, Upper Harz Ditches, Upper Harz Ponds, Upper Harz Water Regale, Upper Harz Water Tunnels
- Museums: Mines of Rammelsberg, Upper Harz Mining Museum
- Skiing: List of resorts, Braunlage, Sankt Andreasberg, Sonnenberg, Wurmberg, Wurmberg Ski Jumps
- Walking: Harz Club, Harz Run, Harzer Wandernadel network; Witches' Trail, Kaiser Way
- Towers: Joseph's Cross
- Special articles: Brocken spectre, Harz Red mountain cattle, Imperial Palace of Goslar, Inner German border, Molkenhaus, Romkerhall Hunting Lodge, Timber framing
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Towns and Villages
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- Important Towns and Villages: Abbenrode, Allrode, Altenau, Bad Grund, Bad Harzburg, Bad Lauterberg, Bad Sachsa, Bad Suderode, Ballenstedt, Benneckenstein, Blankenburg, Braunlage, Breitenstein, Breitungen, Cattenstedt, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Dietersdorf, Elbingerode, Elend, Ellrich, Falkenstein, Gernrode, Goslar, Hainrode, Harzgerode, Hasselfelde, Hattorf am Harz, Hayn, Heimburg, Herrmannsacker, Herzberg am Harz, Hüttenrode, Ilfeld, Ilsenburg, Kleinleinungen, Langelsheim, Mansfeld, Neustadt, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Osterode am Harz, Questenberg, Rieder, Roßla, Sangerhausen, Sankt Andreasberg, Schwenda, Seesen, Sorge, Stapelburg, Stiege, Stolberg, Tanne, Thale, Timmenrode, Trautenstein, Uftrungen, Wieda, Wildemann, Walkenried, Wernigerode, Westerhausen, Wienrode, Wippra, Zorge
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General images
The following are images from various Harz-related articles on Wikipedia.
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Image 2The Eurasian lynx – once again found living wild in the Harz (from Harz)
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Image 3Braunlage (windward) (from Harz)
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Image 4Coloured black and white photograph: the Burgberg with Wernigerode Castle (between 1890 and 1905) (from List of mountains and hills of the Harz)
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Image 6Bode Gorge (from Harz)
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Image 7Reservoir behind the Wendefurth Dam (from Harz)
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Image 8Narrow gauge railway (from Harz)
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Image 9View of the Upper Harz (from Harz)
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Image 10Map of the Harz mountains (from Harz)
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Image 11Torfhaus Moor (from Harz)
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Image 12Stolberg (from Harz)
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Image 13Former climbing areas on the Roßtrappe (from Harz)
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Image 14Bode Gorge (from Harz)
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Image 15Prospecte des Hartzwalds (view of the Harz Forest) (from Harz)
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Image 16Brocken (windward) (from Harz)
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Image 17Rammelsberg Mining Museum (from Harz)
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Image 18Old town of Wernigerode (from Harz)
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Image 19Mining archive in Clausthal-Zellerfeld (from Harz)
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Image 20Sender Brocken at the summit in winter (from Harz)
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Image 21The B 4/B 242 Harz high road near Braunlage (from Harz)
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Image 22Mansfeld (leeward) (from Harz)
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Image 24The Oker with white water. A footpath is on the right bank. (from Harz)
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Image 25Harz 1852 (from Harz)
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Image 26Gabbro Quarry near Bad Harzburg (from Harz)
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Image 27Carlshaus Tower on the Carlshaushöhe ( 626 m above NN) (from Harz)
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Image 28Spruce woods in the Harz (from Harz)
Did you know
- The Wurmberg in the Harz, near Braunlage, is the highest mountain in Lower Saxony?
- An indication of the natural state of the beech woods in the Harz is the return of the black stork (pictured)?
- The Harz Narrow Gauge Railways, an old fashioned, steam and diesel-powered railway network is a very popular mode of transport, especially with tourists ?
People
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- Botanists: Heinrich Karl Beyrich, Ludwig Preiss
- Historians: Werner Rahn, Oswald Spengler, Kurt Ranke
- Military: Baron Wilhelm von Biela, Wilhelm Bittrich, Albrecht Eggeling, Heinrich Fehlis, Kurt Ubben (fighter ace)
- Politicians: Karl von Einem and Alexander von Schleinitz (Prussian Foreign Ministers), Joseph von Radowitz (Prussian statesman)
- Sportsmen and women: Marco Bode (footballer), Björn Dreyer (footballer), Guido Fulst (cyclist), Joachim Kirst (decathlete), Manuela Lutze (sculler)
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Transport
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- Cable Car: Burgberg Cable Car
- Rail: Brocken Railway, Eisfelder Talmühle station, Harz Narrow Gauge Railways, Harzquerbahn, Innerste Valley Railway, Nordhausen-Wernigerode Railway Company, Selketalbahn, South Harz Railway
- Road: B 4, B 27, B 242, B 245, B 446, German Timber-Frame Road, Harz-Heide Road, Romanesque Road
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