Blauenthaler waterfall
The Blauenthaler waterfall near Blauenthal in the Ore Mountains is Saxony's largest waterfall with a drop of around 30 meters . It is not of natural origin, but is fed by a ditch.
description
Around 1530, the sheet metal dealer and producer Andres Blaw , who came from the Nuremberg area, acquired the site of a former grinding and board mill and expanded it into an important hammer mill .
After the First World War , the factory owner Kommerzienrat Toelle had a new company ditch lined with natural stone built above a steep rock face in the Bockau valley so that his workers would not have to be unemployed. This water was used to drive the turbines of his local wood grinding shop as a supplier to the paper mill in Langenbach. This artificial moat branched off from the Kleine Bockau in Höllengrund and ran over the Große Bockau to reach the wood grinding shop after about 3 km.
As the owner of the “Parkhotel Forelle”, Toelle wanted to make the place more attractive for tourists. For this reason, gates were installed that made it possible to divert the water over a rock wall made of stacked granite blocks on Sundays and public holidays, when the machines were at a standstill, and let it fall into the valley as a waterfall. The waterfall has existed permanently since the cessation of grinding and has developed into a tourist attraction.
In winter, when there is enough ice, the rare sport of ice climbing can be practiced.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blauenthal district. In: Eibenstock mountain and embroidery city. Eibenstock city administration, accessed on January 3, 2014 .
Web links
- At the Auersberg. (PDF) Dams, moors, waterfalls. Merketing-Pool Am Auersberg, accessed on January 3, 2014 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 38.7 " N , 12 ° 37 ′ 28.5" E