Kalte Bode – View of Königshütte loop from Bockberg

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Kalte Bode – View of Königshütte loop from Bockberg

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Kalte Bode – View of Königshütte loop from Bockberg

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4.94km

70m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Great for any fitness level. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: October 16, 2026

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Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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26 m

Hiking Parking

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Despite its size, it fills up quite quickly on weekends.

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151 m

Witch Sculpture at Hexenstieg Rest Area

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Funny witch cult ... In any case, quickly recognizable as a wayside cross from the Hexenstieg!

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2.23 km

Kalte Bode

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The Kalte Bode is the left, 17 km long source river of the Bode in the High Harz Mountains in Saxony-Anhalt.

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2.36 km

Sheltered rest area at Königshütter Waterfall

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Good place to rest (with a barbecue area) with a direct view of the waterfall

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4.33 km

Steep trail to the Königsburg ruins

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Very steep but interesting single trail down from the castle ruins. The path up is also steep but nice and narrow.

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4.44 km

View of Königshütte

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From the castle ruins you have a beautiful view of Königshütte. If you walk down the path behind the castle, you will find out that the Bode flows via the Elbe and the North Sea into the Atlantic.

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4.53 km

Royal castle ruins (HWN 41)

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The ascent from the parking lot is challenging, but you can rest at the top of the tower of the ruins of Koenigsburg. And then walk around the beautiful lake.

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4.94 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

1.84 km

1.40 km

812 m

539 m

233 m

111 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

1.39 km

1.36 km

1.17 km

829 m

204 m

Elevation

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Weather

Wednesday 21 October

8°C

4°C

26 %

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Comments

April 16, 2025,Königshütte: Wasserfall - Ruine Königsburg 🐎💧🌿👩‍👦

Our first longer hike of the day took us to the Königshütte Waterfall, which my son really wanted to see again.
The path led us through quiet alpine meadows above Königshütte to the Königsburg Castle ruins. From there, we had a wonderful view of the mountain landscape.
We descended again towards the valley, where the Warme and Kalte Bode rivers …

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September 10, 2023,Königshütter Wasserfall + Ruine Königsburg 👑🥾🌞

After sitting in the Brockenbahn for a long time, I still needed a little exercise. While Master Sen took care of dinner 🎣, I drove to Königshütte. Behind 👑 Königshütte the cold and the warm Bode flow together.

It started at the Königshütter waterfall. A waterfall was artificially created in an old quarry, which falls about 20 meters over a …

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August 4, 2022,Wasserfall Königshütte

Unfortunately, the round wasn't that spectacular. The waterfall in the middle of the street, hardly any water and it smelled very unpleasant, like in the corners at motorway service stations.
Up to the Rabenstein, the path was gone, completely overgrown.
So not worth it.
Then we wanted to go to the forest pool after Zorge according to the prospectus and …

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