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The steep basin and the waterfalls were initially formed by two faults in the granite and then by glaciers during several glaciations of the Pleistocene. 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.
Triberg lies in the middle of the Black Forest between 500 and 1038 metres above sea level. Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft Triberg, a regional utility, was founded 1896 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schoen, Wilhelm Eduard von Schoen and the famous industrialist and inventor Carl von Linde. It is still active today and partially owned by local municipalities.
One way to visit the waterfall is to take the electric boat across lake Königssee to Salet and then to hike up to the Obersee. [2] This remote location has led to the erroneous claim that the highest waterfall in Germany is the more accessible Triberg Waterfall even though Triberg has a drop of only 163 metres.
We went to the city of Triberg for two reasons: to see its famous cuckoo clocks and the waterfall. We ended up arriving later in the day, so we had to skip the waterfall.
It is located in the Southern Black Forest in the south-west of Baden-Württemberg, extending from Herbolzheim and Triberg in the north to Waldshut-Tiengen and Lörrach in the south and from the Black Forest foothills near Freiburg and Emmendingen in the west to Donaueschingen and Bad Dürrheim on the high plateau of the Baar in the east. [3]
Triberg Waterfalls, which is one of the highest and best known waterfalls in Germany; Black Forest Railway, a technically unusual mountain railway with 40 tunnels; Titisee, the largest natural lake in the Black Forest; Baroque churches and abbeys in St. Märgen and St. Peter; German Harmonica Museum in Trossingen
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