Gütersteiner waterfall
The Gütersteiner waterfall is located around 1500 meters northwest of the Urach waterfall in the Maisental , a side valley of the Erms , two kilometers southwest of Bad Urach . He falls into a valley head , where the Güterstein Charterhouse once stood.
The waterfall is divided into two parts by an artificially created basin. The so-called upper Gütersteiner waterfall trickles over tufa stones into this water basin. The water that flows out of this basin runs over the hiking trail and then falls down a moss-covered tufa limestone nose formed from its own deposits, in which it has washed out a channel. The draining water flows into the Brühlbach after about 1.8 km .
This waterfall was created in the same way as the neighboring Urach waterfall. From entrained in the water lime created a source by sinter deposits an approximately 25 m wide and 125 m long Sinterkalkterrasse that provided on the front side the necessary height of fall. In contrast to the Urach case, however, the upper part of the terrace was artificially reduced in size by mining tufa . Below, at the demolition of the terrace, the continuously growing limestone nose forms.
The vegetation in the waterfall area is very lush. From fountain mosses to the rare deer tongue fern , many plants thrive in the humid habitat. Fire salamander larvae live in the small basin below the upper waterfall . The area around the waterfall is mainly protected forest .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ′ 25 ″ N , 9 ° 21 ′ 9 ″ E