Jagged fall
| Jagged fall | ||
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 The flare fall in midsummer |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 48 '50.2 " N , 15 ° 29' 48.1" E | |
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| place | Powiat Jeleniogórski , Lower Silesian Voivodeship , Poland | |
| height | 27 m falling edge : 846 m above sea level NN impact zone : 819 m above sea level NN |
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| flow | Zackel | |
The Zackelfall (pl. Wodospad Kamieńczyka ) is the highest waterfall in the Polish Sudetes near Szklarska Poręba (Eng. Schreiberhau ).
The Zackel (also with a masculine article or in the diminutive the Zackerle , pl. Kamieńczyk translated Steinbach ), a tributary of the Zacken , rises at an altitude of 1260 m above sea level on the meadow enclave Hala Szrenicka (German border meadow ) between the northern slopes of Wasserkoppe (cs. Luboch , pl. Kamiennik ) and hoop bearer (pl. Szrenica ). From a height of 846 m, the torrent falls in three cascades 27 m deep into a small lake, which was formed by falling water and carried along rock gravel in a so-called erosion basin.
Under the middle cascade there is a several meters deep cave called "Goldenloch" (pl. Złota Jama ), which was deepened in the past by miners when digging for pegmatite and amethyst to its present size. Below the lake, the water flows through a deep, one hundred meter long rock canyon - the Zackel Gorge (pl. Wąwóz Kamieńczyka ). This gorge, which was created by deep erosion directed upstream as the fall edge of the waterfall gradually receded, is no wider than four meters in some places, the rock walls protrude up to 30 m in height.
The waterfall was already known as a popular travel destination in the 18th century. In the travelogue "Letters on Silesia" ( Letters on Silesia ) from 1 August 1800 remarked John Quincy Adams , who later became President of the United States:
“ In order to have an easy day's work, we decided to leave it at the inspection of the Zackenfall for today. […] The location of this waterfall is just as wild and romantic as that which the Kochel forms, and at least three times as high; which is nearly a hundred and fifty feet. As in various other places in this region, some violent natural occurrence seems to have split the rocks and produced these considerable gaps which yawn at the wanderer from so many high-lying areas. Here you stand on one side of the chasm and watch the water cascade down from the other onto a surface that is the same as the point of view where you are. Between the spectator and the river there is a steep chasm, which seems to be all the deeper because it is so narrow, and whose depth may well be a hundred yards. With the help of a ladder I descended to the bottom, and crawled partly over pieces of rock, partly over logs which lay in the bed of the river, to the place where the water falls. "
The area was soon opened up in the course of the emerging tourism at the beginning of the 19th century. A paved path over stone steps and non-slip grating has therefore long led through the gorge. In 1973 a tourist was killed by a falling boulder, which is why protective clothing and helmets have been worn since then.
Nearby, at an altitude of 830 meters, the newly built in 1995 and is Bergbaude Schronisko Kamieńczyk . It is the successor to the Zackelfallbaude, which was destroyed in a fire in 1984 and whose beginnings go back to the late 1880s. Before the Second World War , the waterfall had the status of a natural monument, today it is part of the Krkonoše National Park . In its area, only 4.5 km as the crow flies in a north-easterly direction, Kochelfall (pl. Wodospad Szklarki ) is also the second highest waterfall in the Polish part of the Giant Mountains.
The Zackelfall is a possible model for the design of the artificial waterfall in Viktoriapark in Berlin-Kreuzberg .
The poet Karl Theodor Körner (1791–1813) wrote a poem (without a year) with the title:
The jagged fall
The tide rushes roaringly into the dark, dizzying depths,
And the color of the light breaks in the silver foam.
The fall rejuvenates
forever, wave after wave, and for millennia the rock has been fighting the floods here.
But in vain he strives towards the element,
and the eternal struggle remains the law of nature. - As
proud as the
roaring tide , so is the bold striving of the youth, Who courageously tears the courageous through the night of fate.
Brightly, like the brook after the fall, after the struggles of youth,
life's stream also flows pure and crystal-bright!
annotation
- ↑ The spelling of earlier sources is not clear. The term " spike fall " therefore does not refer to a waterfall of the larger spike .
literature
- Ernst-Otto Luthardt : Faszinierendes Schlesien , 2008, ISBN 3-88189-727-5
