The Geroldsau Waterfall (German: Geroldsauer Wasserfall) is a roughly six-metre-high[1] waterfall on the Grobbach stream south of the Baden-Baden quarter of Geroldsau in the Northern Black Forest.

The Geroldsau Waterfall in autumn
The waterfall in a painting by Anton Radl, 1825

The Grobbach rises on the rainy western slopes of the northern Black Forest at a height of about 800 m above NN on the Black Forest High Road near Plättig/Bühlerhöhe. It flows northwards and merges before the waterfall with the Harzbach, which, together with its two tributaries, drains the northwestern slopes of the Badener Höhe. At the waterfall the Grobbach has an average flow rate of 0.56 m³/s.[2] It drops here from about 291 m above NHN down to about 285 m.[3] into a small rock bowl. After about a kilometre the V-shaped valley widens into the broad valley bottom of Geroldsau. At its confluence with the Oos in Lichtental the Grobbach is bigger and longer than the Oos.

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  1. ^ Based on the terrain profile in the LUBW map service. Its height is commonly given as nine metres, c.f. Geotope fact file.
  2. ^ LUBW: Abfluss-Kennwerte HQ and MQ/NQ Archived 2017-12-28 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 5 October 2016
  3. ^ Data and map service of the LUBW: Geo-Prozesse Geländeinfo and Geländeprofil; retrieved 17 November 2016
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48°42′45.94″N 8°14′58.50″E / 48.7127611°N 8.2495833°E / 48.7127611; 8.2495833