Triberg Waterfalls
Located in Triberg im Schwarzwald Triberg Waterfalls are with their total of 163 meters height to the highest and most famous waterfalls in Germany. After the Gutach has formed from the streams of many trough valleys Schönwalder plateau, she rushes over huge granite steps in a wooded valley which opens directly into the center of Triberg. The Triberg waterfalls are divided into the upper falls with three main stages ( falling from 872 m to 856 m above sea level. ), A steep torrent section and finally the seven -stage major events (falling from about 805 m to 713 m above sea level; . Along a length of approximately 230 m).
On the part well developed, paved pathways with two wooden bridges, one can discover the rich variety of crashes. They are lit until 22:00 clock, partially accessible even in winter and offer a special sight when the cases are icy.
The waterfalls have five inputs: in the city center, just off the B500, at the lake, on Scheffelplatz, on the Adelaide and behind the Asklepios Clinic.
Formation
The Triberg waterfalls kettle is located, together with the adjacent lake, in a series of glacial Karformen that are sunk typically in the northeastern slope of the Schönwalder plateau. This steep slope belongs to a distinct, straight Talung ( typical of the breakdown zone of a fault ), transverse to the flow direction of the northeastern Gutach runs ( line Schonach- Geutsche ) and at the intersection with the Gutach forms the Triberg basin. In this basin, like the overthrow Gutach, though less spectacular, both sides of the streams leading- crossing Talung the Schonach ( Gleitfall of 8 m) and the pinch of Bach (small cascades), both in the midst of urban development. This situation is characteristic of Konfluenzstufen Ice Age glaciers. The karartigen forms including the waterfall barrels have their last overmolding probably still get in the glacial maximum of the Würm glaciation, the deeper levels of the valley only in older, more extensive glaciations.
An important contribution to the slope of the Triberg basin also makes 1.5 km below the falls crossing Kesselberg Fault, which has emerged through a 50-100 m high ground level and has increased accordingly, the slope of Gutach.
Economic and cultural significance
In 1805 the falls were tapped through secured way under the generic Vogtenhuber. Around the middle of the 19th century took the waterfall tourism by building new roads such as the Black Forest Railway greatly outweighed and now the share of traditional Triberg pilgrimages.
The water power of the Falls was the prerequisite for the venture of the city Triberg, in 1884, the first in Germany to install an electric street lights. Even today, above and used hydroelectric below the main case area the slope.
Some 500,000 day trippers and tourists from home and abroad every year visit the Triberg Waterfalls. Admission is free of charge. The short visit to traffic cases major force in shaping the local tourist economy, a problem that is has long sought to address.
The cases themselves fade slightly behind her already this 200 year old tourist reputation. From a magazine, they received the title of Germany's most beautiful natural wonders. The title of Germany's highest waterfalls of Triberg postulated for a long time, in competition with the Todtnauer waterfalls that may be described as the highest natural waterfall in Germany. The height of both waterfalls is surpassed, however, by the lesser known and hard to reach Röthbachfall am Koenigssee, with almost 470 meters Germany's highest waterfall.
The Triberg cases are nevertheless to be common ground than to describe the classical waterfall in Germany. You have, also by the multitude of artistic adaptations of their forest dark romantic pathos ' (many images in the Badische Landesmuseum Karlsruhe ), the German term Waterfall significantly influenced.
3 main stage
4 main stage
Lower levels
Lower levels in the spring
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Lighting on New Year's
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