Holtemme River

Another amazing afternoon in the sun, strolling along the banks of your favorite river as it rushes past with the ancient might and million-year-old confidence that it deserves. Its graceful white spray makes the air sparkle all around you and the coolness keeps the summertime heat from penetrating your flesh too deep. What a glorious way to live. The Holtemme is a 47 km long tributary of the river Bode in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It rises in the Harz mountains at the eastern foot of the Brocken, descends during its upper course as the Steinerne Renne, a steep stream bed riddled with granite rocks, flows through Hasserode, Wernigerode and past their villages of Minsleben and Silstedt, through Derenburg and Halberstadt and discharges into the Bode. In Wernigerode, not far from the western gate, the Zillierbach, which is also known as the Flutrenne, merges into the Holtemme. The Bode is named after a legendary giant, the wild, rampaging, Bohemian, Prince Bodo, who, according to the Rosstrappe legend changed into a marauding dog that guarded the crown of Princess Brunhilde in the Kronensumpf ("crown marsh") in the present-day Bode Gorge. The gorge is the narrow section of the Bode valley between Treseburg and Thale. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=126760