Fallbach Waterfall, Austrian Alps

Fallbach - Austria's highest waterfall

Access

The Fallbach Waterfall from Seeboden follow the A10 and then the DN Maltatal (V. Malta) for 25 km. By car you can get there in half an hour. We didn't come directly from Seeboden but from Raggaschlucht following the B106 and E66 until we entered the A10, 57 km in one hour. Following the superb road upstream on MaltatalWith the river to the left as we climb, at one point the great splendor - Fallbach Falls - appears on the right side. It's at the horse's nose! You can practically see the falls in all its splendor from the road, even from the car, but such laziness I don't think there can be such a thing as not getting out in the fresh air and breathing in the mountain air around the huge waterfall. What "nearby" means, that's up to everyone to define - right at the road, at the toll point, at the base/near the base/near the base of the waterfall. There is parking on the road right next to the waterfall.

About Fallbach Waterfall

Fallbachfallin translation Fallbach Waterfallis alive in Carinthianear Koschach on Maltatal. The waterfall is 150 meters high and has its maximum flow in the months of June - July, as we happened to visit it.

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Difficulty: easy

Duration / distance: 1 hour / 2 km

Bookmark: unmarked

Water sources: no need

Minimum altitude: 840 mdm, in parking lot

Maximum altitude: 1,000 meters above sea level at the lookout point at the base of the waterfall

Level difference: +200 m / -200 m

Comments: accessible for a fee to the base of the waterfall

1. Towards the waterfall

From the parking lot there is a path that takes 10-15 minutes to reach the very base of the waterfall, passing a toll booth and a wilder, more natural playground for children. There's also a trail that climbs above the waterfall in an hour, for those keener for more exercise than a stop at ... the horse's snout.

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2. Fallbach Waterfall

The height of waterfalls. In Romania there is an open discussion on this topic: What is the highest waterfall? It is said that officially it measures the maximum difference in height between two points of the waterfall, without touching another obstacle. Therefore a waterfall in 2 steps, which cumulatively have 100 meters is not higher than a waterfall with an unobstructed fall of 80 meters.

The flow rate of a waterfall, also true for Fallbach, is generally variable, with some going dry during certain months of the year. The richest waterfalls are during the snowmelt in the higher areas, after the snow at the foot of the falls is already history. Then, in June and July, the waterfalls in the Alps are at their richest, in the Alps in May, depending on altitude.

With its 150 meters it holds the height record in Carinthia, a mountainous region in which at least in the aforementioned period we admired hundreds of waterfalls, each one more beautiful and higher. But Fallbach is Fallbach - it's record waterfall!

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Fallbach Waterfall

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Fallbach Waterfall

Appreciations

If you are in the area, considering how easily accessible it is Fallbach WaterfallI recommend you to spend at least an hour at its base, where the wind will refresh you naturally and pleasantly.

Other destinations in Carinthia and the Austrian Alps:

Raggaschlucht Canyon

Grossglockner

Hochosterwitz Castle

Malta Hochalmstrasse

Krimml Waterfalls

or Seeboden.

All the best!

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