Image collection »Kaiserklamm Gorge«

The Kaiserklamm gorge, which lies to the north of the 400 year-old "Kaiserhaus" nowadays used as an inn and created through the erosion of the Wettersteinkalk limestone by the Brandenberger Ache, is located in the community of Brandenberg. Up to the middle of the 20th century this gorge played a particularly important role in the transportation of timber. Tree trunks were transported over 25 kilometres through the Brandenbergtal valley and the Kaiserklamm gorge to Kramsach in the Inn Valley. Both the Kaiserklamm and the Kaiserhaus take their names from Kaiser (Emperor) Francis Joseph I. It is said that he greatly enjoyed watching the dramatic scene of the tree trunks thundering downstream over the stone steps hewn into the rock at close quarters.