Holtemme

Holtemme
Location Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Length 47 km (29 mi)
Source on the northeastern slopes of the Renneckenberg in the Harz
Source height 840 m above sea level (HN)
Mouth near Krottorf into the Bode
51°57′49″N 11°10′59″E / 51.963532°N 11.183074°E
Mouth height 97 m above sea level (HN)
Descent 743 m
Basin Elbe
Progression Bode Saale Elbe North Sea
Catchment 271 km2 (105 sq mi)
Large towns Wernigerode, Halberstadt
Small towns Derenburg

The Holtemme is a 47-kilometre (29 mi) 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 Steinerne Renne on the upper course of the Holtemme
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