Lichtenhain Waterfall
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The Lichtenhain Waterfall is a waterfall, which formed by the Lichtenhainer village brook and is situated in the Kirnitzsch Valley in Saxon Switzerland.
[edit] History
[edit] First mentioned
William Lebrecht Goetzinger, chronicler of Saxonian Switzerland, already mentioned the waterfall 1812 in its work "Schandau and its environments"
[edit] Development
The original waterfall was for the tourists not spectacularly enough, so that the brook was dammed up by a pushable weir. Therefore a citizen of Lichtenhain got the job as a "Waterfall pusher". He opens against money for the tourists for a few minutes the water retaining structure. Since in 1898 Kirnitzsch Valley Railway drove for the first time, hundredthousands of tourists came there. In addition since the restoration of the historical water retaining structure in the year 1994, each half hour is drawn to resistance.
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