Lauterbrunnen & Staubbach Fall at winter time. Canton of Bern , Switzerland.29.12.17, 13:39:23 . No, 3924.

            Lauterbrunnen & Staubbach Fall  at winter time. Canton of Bern , Switzerland.29.12.17, 13:39:23 . No, 3924.


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Staubbach Fall
" The Staubbach Fall (German: Staubbachfall (sing.), lit.: dust creek fall) is a waterfall in Switzerland, located just west above Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Highlands. The waterfall drops 297 metres (974 ft) from a hanging valley that ends in overhanging cliffs above the Weisse Lütschine.

The stream, on reaching the verge of the rocky walls of the valley, forms a cascade so high that it is almost lost in spray before it reaches the level of the valley. After rain, and early in the season when fed by the melting snows, the Staubbach Fall is a very striking object. The force of the stream above the fall at such times is sufficient to carry the water clear of the precipice, and the whole mass descends in a condition of liquid dust, between spray and cloud, that sways to-and-fro with the gentlest breeze. In a dry summer, when the supply of water is much reduced, the effect is comparatively insignificant.

The falls were featured on the Swiss 3-centime postage stamp of the 1930s.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was inspired in 1779 on his second trip to Switzerland from Staubbachfall and wrote there his song of the spirits over the waters [2] :

Man's soul 
Is like the water: 
From heaven comes, 
To heaven it rises, 
And down again 
To the earth it must, 
Eternally changing. 

Flows from the high, 
steep rock face 
The pure ray, 
Then it dusts sweetly 
In cloud waves 
To the smooth rock, 
And easily received, It 
Walling veiling, 
Leisrauschend down 
to the depth. 

If cliffs loom 
The fall contrary, 
it foams angrily 
Gradually 
the abyss. 

In the shallow bed he 
creeps down the valley of the meadow, 
And in the smooth lake 
her countenance graze 
All the stars.

Wind is the wave 
Lovely lover; 
Wind mixes from the bottom 
. Foaming waves. 

Soul of man, 
how are you like the water! 
Fate of man, 
how are you like the wind!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe liess sich 1779 auf seiner zweiten Schweizreise vom Staubbachfall inspirieren und verfasste dort seinen Gesang der Geister über den Wassern 

Des Menschen Seele
Gleicht dem Wasser:
Vom Himmel kommt es,
Zum Himmel steigt es,
Und wieder nieder
Zur Erde muß es,
Ewig wechselnd.

Strömt von der hohen,
Steilen Felswand
Der reine Strahl,
Dann stäubt er lieblich
In Wolkenwellen
Zum glatten Fels,
Und leicht empfangen,
Wallt er verschleiernd,
Leisrauschend
Zur Tiefe nieder.

Ragen Klippen
Dem Sturz entgegen,
Schäumt er unmutig
Stufenweise
Zum Abgrund.

Im flachen Bette
Schleicht er das Wiesental hin,
Und in dem glatten See
Weiden ihr Antlitz
Alle Gestirne.

Wind ist der Welle
Lieblicher Buhler;
Wind mischt vom Grund aus
Schäumende Wogen.

Seele des Menschen,
Wie gleichst du dem Wasser!
Schicksal des Menschen,
Wie gleichst du dem Wind! "
Wikipédia. 
   

Taken in: Schweiz / Kanton Bern / Lauterbrunnen (show map)

Taken on: December 29, 2017

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