Staubbach Falls
The Staubbachfall is a 297 meter high waterfall in Switzerland , the water of which falls from the left flank of the Lauterbrunnen valley in the Bernese Oberland to the valley floor. In connection with the regularly occurring thermals , the water is atomized in all directions, which gives the waterfall its name.
The fall is accessible in summer via a rock gallery. The rest of the time, the path is closed due to ice fall and possible rock fall.
The Staubbachfall is one of those waterfalls that form on the shoulders of the Ice Age trough valleys in the Alps. The high and vertical rocks over which the streams plunge into the depths were first created as a result of the glacial cut during the cold ages. After the Seerenbach Falls on Lake Walen, the Staubbach Falls are one of the highest waterfalls in Switzerland.
On his second trip to Switzerland in 1779, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was inspired by the Staubbach Falls and wrote his song of the spirits over the waters there :
The human soul is
like water:
it comes from heaven, it
rises to heaven,
and it has to go down again
to earth,
changing forever.
Flows from the high,
steep cliff
the pure jet,
it sprays gratefully
in clouds waves
the smooth rock,
and easily receive
Wallt he veiling,
Leis rushing
down to depth.
If cliffs loom
The fall meet,
Foams he angrily
Gradually
the abyss.
In the shallow bed he
creeps up the meadow valley,
And in the smooth lake
her face
All stars graze.
The wind is the wave's
lovable wooer;
Wind mixes
foaming waves from the bottom .
Human soul,
how you are like water!
Fate of man,
how you are like the wind!
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lauterbrunnen Dustbach Falls . In: Swiss.de . Retrieved July 26, 2014.
- ↑ Deutschlandfunk
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Coordinates: 46 ° 35 ′ 23 " N , 7 ° 54 ′ 20" E ; CH1903: 635 780 / 159926