オーバーバイエルンの峡谷・トップ20

You can discover a lot on the way to the gorge.

The path leads over 29 footbridges and bridges and several stone stairs through the wild Almbachklamm near Marktschellenberg. Even a tunnel is crossed. At the foot of the Untersberg, the Almbach has formed a deep gorge in the terrain. The path through the Almbachklamm is three kilometers long. Trees line your path, the bubbling and roaring torrent flows next to you. Right at the entrance to the gorge you can visit the oldest marble ball mill in Germany. An adventure for the whole family – even in summer. The Almbachklamm is usually open from the beginning of May to the end of October. However, there may be changes due to weather conditions (it's best to check on the website before starting your tour). The starting point is the free Almbachklamm car park on Kugelmühlweg in Marktschellenberg. If you come by public transport, you can use bus lines 836 and 840. Further information is available at https://www.berchtesgaden.de/almbachklamm.

From 1910 to 1912, the Partnach Gorge, which is up to 80 meters deep, was opened up for tourism under the most difficult conditions and at great financial expense.

The sign above the entrance to the gorge, a popular photo motif, shows the time it was opened up in the years 1910-1920.

Lower entrance to the gorge. here you can buy the tickets

The Mittenwald Gorge Kiosk marks the eastern exit of the Leutasch Ghost Gorge. Maybe a little refreshment before visiting the waterfall trail? €3 is charged for each adult. Children pay half. The gorge is much narrower here and the path leads directly above the Leutasch to the waterfall. Past a statue of the Virgin Mary, you quickly reach the 23-meter-high waterfall.

The Partnach Gorge is a 700-meter-long gorge in the Reintal near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, cut by the Partnach torrent to a depth of more than 80 meters in places. The valley floor is at about 800 m above sea level in the middle of the gorge. In 1912, the Partnach Gorge was declared a natural monument. The path always runs on the right side of the stream. In the Middle Triassic, around 240 million years ago, dark gray, relatively hard layers of alpine shell limestone, known as Wurstel limestone or Knollenkalk, were deposited on the bottom of a shallow sea in the area of today's Partnach Gorge. On the bulging layers of this rock, you can still often see traces of burrowing and feeding by the sea creatures of that time. Around five million years later, significantly softer marls were deposited in the same sea basin, which are now known as the Partnach layers. During the later Alpine folding, the so-called Wamberger Saddle was formed from these rock layers. The erosion power of the Partnach, fed by the Schneeferner on the Zugspitzplatt, was great enough to quickly erode the softer layers, keep pace with the ongoing uplift of the terrain and thus also cut into the hard alpine Muschelkalk. Today, the river forms the typical narrow valley shape of a gorge in the Muschelkalk area, while to the north and south of it, in the areas of the softer Partnach layers, wider valley shapes predominate. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnachklamm

June - September: 08:00 - 20:00 October - May: 08:00 - 18:00 The Partnachklamm is open all year round, but may be closed for safety reasons. If this is the case, there are two other ways to avoid the gorge.