Staubbach Falls, Waterfall in Lauterbrunnen Valley, Switzerland.

Staubbach Falls is a waterfall in Lauterbrunnen Valley that drops approximately 300 meters from a hanging valley and creates a fine mist as it descends. The water disperses into spray during its fall, rarely reaching the ground due to wind currents in the valley.

The falls formed on the shoulder of a glacial trough valley, where ice-age glacial scouring left the high vertical rock face over which the stream now drops 297 metres. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe visited in 1779 during his second journey to Switzerland and wrote his poem "Gesang der Geister über den Wassern" there. In the 1930s the falls appeared on a 3-centime Swiss postage stamp.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe composed the poem 'Song of the Spirits over the Waters' in 1779 after visiting the waterfall.

In summer the falls are reached via a rock gallery; the rest of the year the path is closed because of falling ice and possible rockfall. A PostAuto bus runs from Lauterbrunnen railway station to near the bottom of the waterfall. Flow is strongest after rain and early in the season, when melting snow feeds the stream.

The falls appeared on a 3-centime Swiss postage stamp in the 1930s. The stream pours from a hanging valley over cliffs shaped by glacial scouring during the cold periods, one of several waterfalls on the shoulders of the Lauterbrunnen trough valley.