Triberg im Schwarzwald is a town in Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, located in the Schwarzwald-Baar district in the Black Forest

Black Forest

The Black Forest is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. It is bordered by the Rhine valley to the west and south. The highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of 1,493 metres ....

. As of 2004 it has a population of 5,377. Triberg lies in the middle of the Black Forest between 500 and 1038 metres above sea level.

The Triberg Waterfalls

Triberg Waterfalls

Triberg Falls is one of the highest waterfalls in Germany with a descent of 163 meters , and is a landmark in the Black Forest region...

, a series of short waterfalls in the Gutach

Gutach (Kinzig)

Gutach is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany....

 River, are among the tallest waterfalls in Germany. With a total vertical drop of 496 feet, the falls stand over 1000 feet shorter than the tallest waterfall in Germany, the Röthbachfall

Röthbachfall

The Röthbach Waterfall is the highest waterfall in Germany, with a vertical drop of 470 metres . The waterfall is located in the Berchtesgaden area on the Obersee lake. The most convenient way to visit the waterfall is to take the electric boat across lake Konigssee to Salet and then to hike up...

. However, the Triberg Waterfalls are better known and access to them is easier.

Sights

Other points of interest are:

• the Black Forest museum (Schwarzwaldmuseum)
• the pilgrimage church Maria in der tanne
  Maria in der tanne
  Maria in der Tanne is a small baroque church near Triberg im Schwarzwald in the Black Forest of Germany. The legend behind this church dates from 1644, when a young girl was cured from an eye disease by the water of a nearby spring. Within the next year, a local tailor cured his leprosy by washing...
  
   (Mary in the Fir), a baroque church dating from the 18th Century
• the handcarved council chamber
• the world's biggest Cuckoo clock
  Cuckoo clock
  A cuckoo clock is a clock, typically pendulum-regulated, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo's call and typically has a mechanical cuckoo that emerges with each note...
  
  
• the 40 tunnels of the Schwarzwaldbahn (Baden)
  Schwarzwaldbahn (Baden)
  ----The Baden Black Forest Railway is a twin-track, electrified railway line in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, running in a NW-SE direction to link Offenburg on the Rhine Valley Railway with Singen on the Upper Rhine Railway...
  
  (Black Forest Railway) around Triberg.

External links

• http://www.triberg.de
• http://www.world-waterfalls.com/ Triberg: informations and pictures
• Triberg Tourism Information and Pictures