Todtnau waterfall
| Todtnauer waterfall, Hangloch waterfall | ||
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 The main fall and the lowest tier from the south |
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 50 '36.24 " N , 7 ° 56' 20.76" O | |
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| place | Todtnauberg , Southern Black Forest , Baden-Wuerttemberg | |
| height | 97 m falling edge : 935 m impact zone : 838 m |
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| width | 20 m | |
| Number of fall levels | 5 | |
| Mean flow rate (MQ) | 210 l / s | |
| Falling watercourse | Stübenbächle | |
The Todtnau waterfall , also called Todtnauberger waterfall or Hangloch waterfall , is located between Todtnauberg and Aftersteg, two villages that belong to Todtnau . At this waterfall , the water falls over five steps, partly free, partly sliding a total of 97 meters into the depth. The Hangloch waterfall is one of Germany's highest waterfalls. The penultimate and highest level measures 60 meters and is thus by far the highest individual level in the German low mountain range.
description
The waterfall is formed by the Stübenbach ("Stiebender Bach"), which rises in the Stübenwasen area in the Feldberg area. It first flows through the high valley of Todtnauberg , which is open to the southwest and is characterized by meadows . Below the Zinkens Hangloch the valley floor is forested, and the stream suddenly plunges into a rock notch with two steps a few meters high. After a short stretch of flow, there is a massive rumbling fall about 12 meters high. With little or no slope, it then reaches the broad, south-facing edge of the roughly 60-meter-high, multi-segmented main step. Above and below it, footbridges cross the stream. After a last 4 meter high ledge, the Stübenbach rushes a further 140 meters down steeply to the Stiebenmatte and then to the confluence with the Schönenbach.
At a distance of 300 meters east of the upper drop step is the Monolith Schatzstein . Signs that have not yet been clearly interpreted are carved into this stone. All that is known is that there are Markscheider signs about the location of the pits in the area above the waterfall. On a path from Aftersteg to the waterfalls there is a Marian grotto halfway .
Emergence
The Todtnau waterfall was created in the last ice ages by glacier erosion on a geological fault line . Originally, the ice flowed from the Todtnauberger high valley into the glacier of the Schönenbachtal, which in turn strengthened the glacier of the Wiesental . The Stübenbach glacier did not have the strength to cut the valley as deep as the several hundred meters thick glacier of the Schönenbach valley. This is how today's hanging valley was created above the 170 meter high estuary into the Schönenbach valley . It consists of resistant metatexite rock into which the Stübenbach has only been able to cut small notches and steps since then.
Culture and Uses
Silver ore was mined in the area until the 18th century , so it is criss-crossed by tunnels . The second name of this waterfall refers to one of these tunnels, the slope hole .
The Todtnau waterfalls are visited by over 500,000 visitors every year. The waterfall can be reached from the parking lots in Todtnauberg and Aftersteg. The path from Aftersteg to the foot of the waterfall was made barrier-free , supported by the Southern Black Forest Nature Park . Even if the Triberg waterfalls and the Todtnauer waterfall are often referred to as the highest waterfalls or natural waterfalls in Germany, they are both surpassed by the less known and difficult to access Röthbachfall on the Upper Bavarian Königssee , which has a total height of 470 meters.
The entire waterfall is largely left in its natural state and has been under protection as an extensive natural monument since July 13, 1987 . The access from Aftersteg leads past another natural monument, an approx. 300 year old European beech (former willow beech ).
The 60 m high main step
The main stage in winter
View from the fall edge into the valley of the Schönenbach
The 20 meter wide main step below the fall edge
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Web links
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Freiburg Schwarzwald.de Todtnauer waterfall
- ^ Freiburg Schwarzwald.de Mariengrotte
- ↑ Geographisch-Kartographisches Institut Meyer: Südschwarzwald (Meyers Naturführer). Meyers Lexikonverlag, Mannheim 1989 (p. 82), ISBN 3-411-02775-4
- ↑ Wasserfallsteig
- ^ Protected area profile of the LUBW , waterfall
- ^ Protected area profile of the LUBW , beech (Weidbuche)