Country: Germany
Rothbachfall and the Koenigssee Waterfalls
Rothbachfall and the Konigssee Waterfalls (or Röthbachfall and Königssee, respectively, with the umlaut) were a series of waterfalls that we managed to experience in a singular excursion involving…
Tatzelwurm Waterfall
The Tatzelwurm Waterfall was actually a pair of attractive waterfalls on the Auerbach (despite the singular name), but I’ve stuck with the singular reference to the falls since that seemed to be…
Josefsthaler Waterfalls
The Josefsthaler Waterfalls were kind of obscure in that there wasn’t a whole lot of literature devoted to it when I was doing my trip planning research. However, I found an opportunity to visit it…
Leutaschklamm Waterfall
The Leutaschklamm Waterfall was at the bottom of the impressive Leutaschklamm Gorge, which was right at the Germany and Austria border near Mittenwald, Germany. Although the impressive gorge…
Kuhflucht Waterfalls
The Kuhflucht Waterfalls were a series of waterfalls said to have a cumulative height of 270m making this one of Germany’s tallest waterfalls. In my experience, though, it was hard to corroborate…
Hoellentalklamm Waterfalls
The Hoellentalklamm Waterfalls (or Höllentalklamm Wasserfälle in German) were my introduction to the kind of gorge hiking that turned out to be quite common throughout the mountains of Southern…
Lechfall
Lechfall was a man-made waterfall spilling over a dam ladder on the Lech River built in the 18th century as a means of flood control. What made this waterfall stand out was the color of the river…
Poellat Gorge Waterfall
The Poellat Gorge Waterfall (or Pöllatschlucht Wasserfall in German) should have been one of the most breathtaking waterfalls in all of Germany. Indeed, it had the fortunate location sitting right…
Zipfelsbach Waterfall
The Zipfelsbach Waterfall was one of the much taller waterfalls in Germany though it didn’t seem to get a whole lot of fanfare. It was said to have a cumulative drop of around 300m…
Hinanger Waterfall
The Hinanger Waterfall was an eccentric karstic limestone type waterfalls though this particular one featured some interesting weeping rocks as well as a small natural arch making this one of the…
Scheidegger Waterfalls
The Scheidegger Waterfalls were a collection of fair-sized waterfalls all experienced from a single excursion within the Rohrach Gorge. The main waterfalls consisted of a 22m upper drop followed…
Urach Waterfall
The Urach Waterfall was one of those attractive limestone type waterfalls with that mossy, weeping characteristic which we tend to see a lot of back in the coastal regions of California…
Geroldsau Waterfall
The Geroldsau Waterfall was one of the more obscure waterfalls that we’ve encountered in our waterfalling tour of Germany. In this particular case, we hardly saw any fanfare nor signage…
Allerheiligen Waterfalls
The Allerheiligen Waterfalls were actually a series of small all-season waterfalls tumbling over apparently seven drops within the Schwarzwald National Park. It’s said that the cumulative height…
Burgbach Waterfall
The Burgbach Waterfall was another one of the waterfalls we visited while making the drive between Freiburg and Baden Baden. This pretty tranquil waterfall was said to have a cumulative drop of 32m…
Todtnau Waterfall
The Todtnau Waterfall was an impressively tall waterfall deep in the Black Forest of southwestern Germany where the Stübenbächle dropped 97m. It was also one of the easier waterfalls to visit…
Triberg Waterfalls
The Triberg Waterfalls were said to be Germany’s highest waterfalls where the Gutach tumbles 163m in cumulative height over a series of several waterfalls. In any case, while we tend to…
Saarburg Waterfall
The Saarburg Waterfall was a charming urban waterfall spilling within the old town (altstadt) of the medieval city of Saarburg. While we tend to have negative perceptions of urbanized man-modified…