The 90m-high Allerheiligen Wasserfälle spill in silky threads over several cascades. From here, a short round-trip trail leads over bridges and up steps through the wooded gorge to a ruined Gothic abbey – an evocative sight with its nave open to the sky.
Allerheiligen Wasserfälle
Schwarzwaldhochstrasse
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