The Triberg Waterfalls are

waterfalls A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Waterfalls can be formed in several w ...

near Triberg in the Black Forest in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

(

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). With a descent of 163 m, it is one of the highest waterfalls in Germany and a landmark in the

Black Forest The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is ...

region. Above Triberg, in the midst of Black Forest, the Gutach river plunges over seven major steps from a gently undulated high plain into a rocky V-shaped valley. In Triberg, at the bottom of the falls, the deep valley forms a basin just wide enough for a small town. The steep basin and the waterfalls were initially formed by two faults in the granite and then by

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s during several glaciations of the

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological Epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fina ...

. Triberg with its waterfalls is a popular tourist spot, attracting a large number of both domestic and foreign tourists each year. The upper part of the falls is less spectacular. Here the water is used by a small and very old hydroelectric power plant.

External links

Information about the waterfalls
on the website of the community of Triberg (German)
Photos of Triberg Waterfalls (Spanish)

Photo gallery

File:Wasserfall triberg.jpg, Lowest four steps of Triberg Falls in early spring File:Triberg Wasserfalle.jpg, The Triberg waterfalls in 2018 File:Schonach-Wasserfall Triberg.jpg, The small waterfall of the Schonach (tributary of the Gutach) in Triberg File:Entrance to Triberg waterfall.jpg, A sign at the entrance of the waterfall: ''Germany's highest waterfall''. (This claim is actually incorrect, as Germany's highest waterfall is the Rothbachfall, near the Konigssee in

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.) File:Triberg Waterfalls map.JPG, Map of the Triberg Waterfalls

References

{{Authority control Waterfalls of Germany Black Forest Geography of the Black Forest WTriberg Landforms of Baden-Württemberg Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis