Triberg is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the Schwarzwald-Baar district in the Black Forest. As of 2004 it has a population of 5,377. Geographical location 48°8′ N 8°14′ E. With an area of 35,742 km² and 10. ... Schwarzwald-Baar is a district (Kreis) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... A map of Germany, showing the Black Forest in red. ...
With 163 m height the waterfalls at Triberg are the highest of Germany. The Gutach river descends over several steps right into the town center.
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The asteroid 619 Triberga is named after the town. An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ...
The basic cuckoo clock of today is the railway-house (Bahnhäusle) form, still with its rich ornamentation, and these are known under the name of "traditional".
The centre of production continues to be the Black Forest region of Germany, in the area of Triberg im Schwarzwald and Neustadt, where there are about a hundred firms making the whole clock or parts of it.
The cuckoo clock is often wrongly associated with Switzerland, as in the movie The Third Man.
The Triberg Waterfalls are commonly called the tallest waterfall in Germany.
With a total vertical drop of 496 feet, the falls stand over 1000 feet shorter than the true tallest waterfall in Germany, the Rothbachfall.
The Triberg Waterfalls are much more well known, and are much easier to access, so it is understandable where the erroneous information came from, but it is naïve to assume that a waterfall under 500 feet tall is the tallest in a country with mountains such as the Alps.
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