Liechtenstein Gorge

The Liechtensteinklamm is a narrow gorge up to 300 meters high, located in the Austrian Alps, 50 km south of Salzburg. It is about 4 km long, of which 1 km is accessible to tourists. In some places the ravine is only a few meters wide. There is a waterfall at its end.

The waters of the mountain stream have carved the gorge for thousands of years. In 1875, members of the Pongau Alpine Club began working on making it available to the public, but due to lack of funds, they had to stop. They were only completed thanks to a donation from Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein. The whole gorge was also named after him.

A local legend says that a blacksmith promised the devil his disabled daughter, provided that he would bring him water from the healing spring in Gastein and before the first rooster crows. However, the blacksmith's wife decided to interfere with the implementation of the pact, prematurely waking the rooster. As the devil returned with water in his hands, he heard the foam. Then, furious, he threw water into the Liechtensteinklamm gorge over which he was flying.