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Lake Wolfgang[1][2][3] (German: Wolfgangsee) is a lake in Austria that lies mostly within the state of Salzburg and is one of the best known lakes in the Salzkammergut resort region. The municipalities on its shore are Strobl, St. Gilgen with the villages of Abersee and Ried as well as the market town of St. Wolfgang in the state of Upper Austria. The town and the lake are named after Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg, who, according to legend, built the first church here in the late 10th century.

Lake Wolfgang
Lake Wolfgang and Schafberg
Lake Wolfgang
Location	Salzburg, Upper Austria
Coordinates	47°45′N 13°24′E
Type	Glacial lake
Basin countries	Austria
Surface area	13 km2 (5.0 sq mi)
Max. depth	114 m (374 ft)
Water volume	667.07 million cubic metres (540,800 acre⋅ft)
Surface elevation	538 m (1,765 ft)
Settlements	Strobl, St. Gilgen, Abersee, Ried, St. Wolfgang

Overview

Lake Wolfgang stretches about 10.5 kilometres from the northwest to the southeast. It is divided into two parts by a peninsula, called die Enge (the Narrow), situated roughly in the middle of its southern shore opposite St. Wolfgang, where the breadth is no more than 200 metres. The western portion of the lake at St. Gilgen is known as the Abersee.

The lake has an area of about 12.9 to 13.1 km² and is surrounded by the Salzkammergut mountain range. On the northern side, the Schafberg is located. A rack railway, the Schafbergbahn leads up to the summit at 1,782 m. Due to the steep shore at its foot only a footpath connects St. Wolfgang and the village of Ried with St. Gilgen along the Falkensteinwand, the set of the Bergpsalmen ("mountain psalms") lyric anthology written by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel in 1870. In the south and southwest of Lake Wolfgang lies the Osterhorngruppe, with heights up to 1,800 metres. Directly south of St. Gilgen rises the Zwölferhorn (1,522 m), which can be visited by cable car.

The settlements around the lake, especially St. Wolfgang and St. Gilgen are popular resort towns, mainly in summer. The Gasthaus Weißes Rössl at St. Wolfgang is the set of the famous 1897 operetta The White Horse Inn by Ralph Benatzky, performed throughout the world and filmed several times. Furthermore, the area around the lake was the location of several Heimatfilm movies, suggesting an untouched alpine idyll. Because Lake Wolfgang has been the vacation resort of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl for many years, the film director Christoph Schlingensief made the lake a site of his Chance 2000 project of 1998 when he invited "Germany's four million unemployed" to take a bath in the lake and flood Kohl's residence.

Transportation

The Bundesstraße B158 from Bad Ischl to Salzburg runs along the southern shore of Lake Wolfgang. In St. Gilgen the B154 highway branches off, leading to the A1 Westautobahn motorway (European route E55 and E60). The former Salzkammergut-Lokalbahn narrow gauge railway to Salzburg went out of service in 1957. Ship transport on the lake is provided by the Salzburg AG public utility company, which runs six vessels.

See also

• Salzburg
• Salzburgerland
• Schafbergbahn
• Brunnwinkl

References

External links

• Guide to Lake Wolfgang from the Wolfgangsee Tourismus Gesellschaft

На других языках

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[de] Wolfgangsee

Der Wolfgangsee, mit älterem Namen auch Abersee, ist ein Alpenrandsee in Österreich. Er liegt zum größten Teil im Nordosten des Bundeslandes Salzburg, ein kleiner Teil gehört zu Oberösterreich, und er ist mit 13 km² einer der größten und bekanntesten Seen in der Region Salzkammergut. Am Wolfgangsee liegen die Salzburger Gemeinden Sankt Gilgen und Strobl sowie die oberösterreichische Gemeinde Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut. Das Gebiet um den Wolfgangsee gilt als viel besuchte Tourismusregion (Ferienregion Wolfgangsee).

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- [en] Lake Wolfgang

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[fr] Wolfgangsee

Le lac de Wolfgang ou Wolfgangsee est un lac situé en Autriche, dans la région de montagnes du Salzkammergut, dans le land de Salzbourg pour la partie bordée par les communes de Strobl, Sankt Gilgen, Abersee et Ried, et dans le land de Haute-Autriche pour la partie bordée par Sankt Wolfgang.

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[it] Wolfgangsee

Il Wolfgangsee è un lago austriaco che si trova a cavallo del territorio di Salisburgo e quello della regione di Salzkammergut. La parte occidentale del lago (St. Gilgen) è chiamata Abersee. Questo appellativo deriva dalla parola in dialetto locale "aper", che significa "senza neve", dato che la parte occidentale del lago ha un clima più mite e non gela durante l'inverno. Il lago è lungo circa 10,5 km ed è diviso in due da una penisola chiamata die Enge.

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[ru] Вольфгангзе

Во́льфгангзе[1] (нем. Wolfgangsee [ˈvɔlfgaŋzeː][2]) или Санкт-Во́льфгангзе[3] (нем. Sankt-Wolfgang-See [zaŋktˈvɔlfgaŋzeː][2]) или А́берзе[1] (нем. Abersee [ˈaːbərzeː][2]) — озеро в Австрии, на границе федеральных земель Верхняя Австрия и Зальцбург[3]. Озеро расположено в известном курортном регионе Зальцкаммергут, внесённом в список мирового наследия Юнеско.

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