Trümmelbach Falls
| Trümmelbach Falls | ||
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 Underground waterfall |
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| Coordinates | 636.44 thousand / 157700 | |
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| place | Stechelberg | |
| height | 140 m falling edge : 975 m above sea level M. Impact zone : 835 m above sea level. M. |
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| Number of fall levels | 10 | |
| Mean flow rate (MQ) | 200 l / s | |
| Falling watercourse | Trümmelbach | |
The Trümmelbach Falls are located in the Swiss Lauterbrunnen Valley between Lauterbrunnen and Stechelberg .
They are located within the UNESCO World Heritage Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn and are part of the Swiss federal inventory of landscapes and natural monuments of national importance .
Located in Lauterbrunnen valley just before Stechelberg , the Trümmelbach falls from the east over the steep rock faces into the valley. The stream that drains the glacier walls of the Eiger , Mönch and Jungfrau mountains has washed a gorge into the rock face here , which is very narrow and hardly widens towards the top. In this gorge, the brook falls over ten waterfalls, overcoming a height difference of 140 meters. The uppermost falls are so deep in the narrow, winding gorge that daylight can no longer reach them and they are referred to as underground waterfalls.
The Trümmelbach has a catchment area of 23 square kilometers, half of which is covered with ice and snow . It carries up to 20,000 liters of water per second and 20,200 tons of debris per year .
A system of paths over 600 meters long, over stairs and through tunnels, has made the Trümmelbach Falls accessible since 1913. Especially the upper waterfalls inside the mountain could only be accessed through galleries and tunnels. An inclined lift in the mountain, which overcomes a height difference of 100 meters, makes the ascent easier. You have to pay admission to visit the falls.
photos
Case No. 6
One of the lower cases
A fall in daylight
Underground
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Office for the Environment, Forests and Landscape (ed.): Guide. Appropriate amounts of residual water - How can they be determined. Enforcement environment. Bern 2000 ( PDF download [accessed June 9, 2017]).
- ↑ Trümmelbach Falls. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 29, 2013 ; Retrieved September 1, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information board at the entrance
