The Sankenbach Waterfalls () are a
cascade
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southwest of the village of
Baiersbronn
Baiersbronn is a municipality and a village in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest on the Murg river. Nearby is the mountain of Rinkenkopf (759.6 m) with its hillfort
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in the
Black Forest
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in
Germany
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. The
Sankenbach flows over the waterfalls, dropping a total of 40 metres. The falls drop down the headwall of the
cirque
A (; from the Latin word ) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by Glacier#Erosion, glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from , meaning a pot or cauldron) and ; ). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform a ...
of the Sankenbach Bowl (''Sankenbachkessel'') in the Eckscher Horizon (''Eck’scher Horizont'') of the
Lower Bunter Sandstone.
[Thomas Huth, Baldur Junker: ''Geotouristische Karte von Baden-Württemberg – Schwarzwald und Umgebung – Erläuterungen.'' Freiburg i. Br. 2004, , p. 245] Shortly afterwards the Sankenbach feeds the
Sankenbachsee
The Sankenbachsee is a tarn southwest of Baiersbronn in the Black Forest in southwestern Germany. The Sankenbach stream flows through the lake. In the 1980s a low weir
A weir or low-head dam is a barrier across the width of a river tha ...
.
The volume of the waterfall can be regulated by visitors by impounding the inflowing water in a small retaining basin above the upper waterfall using a slider. The volume of the cascading water increases for a while after the slider is lifted. It is operated from a footbridge which crosses the little reservoir by means of a long wooden lever.
File:SankenbachfallSteg.JPG, Footbridge and lever for operating the retention system
File:SankenbachfallWasserbecken.JPG, Upper fall and water reservoir
File:SankenbachfallSchieber.JPG, View from above of the closed slider
File:SankenbachfallAbbruchkante.JPG, Dam facility and edge of the lower main waterfall
See also
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List of waterfalls
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References
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Waterfalls of Germany
Geography of the Black Forest
Freudenstadt (district)
WSankenbachwasserfalle