Grawa waterfall
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 0 '48.3 " N , 11 ° 11' 20.5" E | |
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| place | Tyrol , Austria | |
| height | 180 m | |
| width | 85 m | |
| Falling watercourse | Sulauberach | |
| Estuarine waters | Sulauberach | |
The Grawa waterfall is a waterfall of the Sulauberach in the rear Stubai Valley ( Tyrol / Austria) on the orographically right side of the valley opposite the Grawa Alm ( 1530 m ). It is easily visible from the Stubai State Road, which ends 2.7 km further into the valley at the valley station of the Stubai Glacier Cable Car and can be reached via a short footpath. At around 85 m, the Grawa waterfall is the widest in the entire Eastern Alps and has a height of around 180 m. The not entirely vertical, banded rock subsoil lets its cascades atomize many times and thus contributes to the scenic charm.
The Grawa waterfall was declared a natural monument in accordance with the Tyrolean Nature Conservation Act in 1979 and is located in the Serles - Habicht - Zuckerhütl landscape protection area . The Sulauberach, which forms the waterfall, is fed by the mightiest glaciers in the Ruetz catchment area , namely the Sulzenauferner , the Fernerstube and the Grünauferner and therefore has the characteristic properties and flow behavior of a glacier creek in a pronounced form. Glacial streams are very inhospitable ecosystems, always cold, with high flow speeds and with year-to-day and time-of-day fluctuations in flow. Therefore, they have a highly specialized fauna and accompanying flora with a comparatively low biomass. In the area of the waterfall itself, there should hardly be any aquatic insects or other aquatic animals due to the extreme conditions.
The surrounding forest is made up of mixed spruce and stone pine , with individual groups of alder and birch trees and the undergrowth of moss and berry bushes typical of this altitude and north-west exposure. The fine water dust from the cascades enables the typical wetland flora to flourish, the lichen-covered trees of which are reminiscent of a rainforest.
On the western (left) bank edge of the waterfall, an ascent with two viewing platforms was built in 2007–2008 as part of the Stubai WildeWasserWeg .
literature
- Karlheinz Töchterle , Luis Töchterle: Neustift in the Stubaital. Home and destination. Wagner, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-7030-0456-8 .
Web links
- WildeWasserWeg on stubai.at