Tatzelwurm Wasserfall, Bayern, Germany
N 47° 40.280 E 012° 04.977
33T E 281031 N 5283893
Tatzelwurm Wasserfall, Bayern, Germany
Waymark Code: WMDP1W
Location: Bayern, Germany
Date Posted: 02/08/2012
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The waterfall received its name according to the Tatzelworm myth, a legend for its formation and origin than the forecasts are: You can hear the thunder of falling water and see the rising fog already from a distance, but the canyon and the waterfall itself can be seen only when you stay directly on it. If you are careless in this area, you can plunge into the gorge and so "of Tatzelworm devoured".
Today an access to the beautiful waterfall is with a developed road and there are two bridges which are crossing the waterfall, the upper and the lower one.
A waterfall is usually a geological formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a sudden break in elevation or nickpoint.
Some waterfalls form in mountain environments where the erosive water force is high and stream courses may be subject to sudden and catastrophic change. In such cases, the waterfall may not be the end product of many years of water action over a region, but rather the result of relatively sudden geological processes such as landslides, faults or volcanic action.
Typically, a river flows over a large step in the rocks which may have been formed by a fault line. Over a period of years, the edges of this shelf will gradually break away and the waterfall will steadily retreat upstream, creating a gorge of recession. Often, the rock stratum just below the more resistant shelf will be of a softer type, meaning undercutting, due to splashback, will occur here to form a shallow cave-like formation known as a rock shelter or plunge pool under and behind the waterfall. Eventually, the outcropping, more resistant cap rock will collapse under pressure to add blocks of rock to the base of the waterfall. These blocks of rock are then broken down into smaller boulders by attrition as they collide with each other, and they also erode the base of the waterfall by abrasion, creating a deep plunge pool or gorge.
Streams become wider and more shallow just above waterfalls due to flowing over the rock shelf, and there is usually a deep pool just below the waterfall because of the kinetic energy of the water hitting the bottom.
Type: Cascade
Parking Coordinates: N 47° 04.000 000° 00.000
Watercourse: auerbach river
Waterfall Height: 312
Seasonality: Perennial
Viewpoint: Middle
Path Up and Down: Partial
Walk Behind: Not at all
Seasons of Best Flow: Not listed
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