Attersee (lake)

Stilt houses in Lake UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps

The Attersee ( also Kammersee ) in Upper Austria is the largest lake in Austria. He is a good fishing lake and a popular diving and sailing area.

• 4.1 fish stock
• 4.2 Climate History

• 5.1 Marine
• 5.2 Boating
• 5.3 Diving
• 5.4 Cycling

Generally

The Attersee is a glacial lake in Upper Austria's Salzkammergut region with a depth of up to 169 meters. Since the banks are very steep and the Attersee Lake has a large average depth, he meets with a water volume of about 4 billion cubic meters of many larger area lakes such as Lake Chiemsee. In area of the Attersee is indeed surpassed by Lake Constance and Lake Neusiedl, but both are not entirely in Austria.

Geography

In the southwest of the sheep mountain (1783 m above sea level. A. ), in the southeast the hell Mountains (1862 m above sea level. A. ) rises.

The Attersee is the final link in a chain of lakes, which begins in the Southwest with Lake Fuschl and the north- west with the Mondsee. The water from both lakes flows into the Mondsee and from this again over the four -kilometer Seeache in the southwest in the Attersee. The water of Lake Attersee flows out through the chamber at Ager. The Ager flows into the Traun River, which then flows into the Danube in Linz.

History

The name probably comes from a pre-Celtic ( reconstructed ) or root * ata * ada, what water means '. Kammersee refers to the lock chamber in Attersee am Attersee, and thus on the Kammergut rule as possession and the Salzkammergut itself

The Attersee area was inhabited in the Neolithic period. In August 1870 the lake was discovered in Seewalchen remains of pile dwellings on the north end. The pile dwellings partly originate from the period 4000-3000 BC ( Mondsee culture), some 1500 to 1000 ( präkeltisch - Bronze Age ). Finds of pottery and bronze Mondsee culture supplement these findings. Since 2011, include the localities Attersee I and III and Litzlberg South ( the latter two Mondsee culture ) for cross-border UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps ( which also includes the localities in Lake Mondsee belong ).

Am Attersee, there are relics of Roman villas, which confirms the well at least from the late 2nd millennium BC, largely unbroken continuity of settlement ( the Mondsee culture has gone demonstrably, here is many centuries in the meantime nothing more befundet ).

Summer

In Litzlberg there is a small island castle.

In the Belle Epoque, the Attersee regional center of the summer resort and for its artist colonies was known. It was considered a secret, while celebrities and business tycoons gathered in Kaiser proximity in space Ischl. Gustav Klimt, summer guest on Attersee, painted a large number of views from the region around Litzlberg. Gustav Mahler loved the holiday on the Attersee and resided in the summer months of the years 1893 to 1896 at the Gasthof Föttinger in Steinbach am Attersee. There, the famous conductor and composer had dedicated his composing at the lake, which can still be visited today. Also the Spätimpressionist Albert Weisgerber painted his most famous self-portrait self-portrait on the Attersee ( 1911).

Railway

1881 the branch line ( Kammerer Hansel ) of Vöcklabruck after chamber, located directly on the Attersee, built and officially opened on May 1, 1882. Another railway line Electric train Unterach Lake at Mondsee, was in the years 1907 to 1949.

Today, the local railway Voecklamarkt - Attersee provides the connection to the Austrian Western Railway.

Tourism / Attersee Region

As early as 1892 an association to raise at the summer resort was founded on the Attersee. In 1926/27, after collapse of tourism after World War I and the Great Depression was a start-up as a tourism association for the Attersee and Mondsee area. 1952 Attersee Association was founded in 1999 was the merger of the local chapters of the Attersee communities for multipart Tourism ( Tourism Region ) Attersee Region, who was also a founding member in 2001 of the Salzkammergut Tourismus GmbH (since then Attersee Region - Salzkammergut). Since about 2009, the tourism organizations Herzogenaurach am Hongar and Gampern that are not direct Attersee neighboring, closely associated.

Nature

Fish stock

Pike, lake - brook and rainbow trout, lake trout, whitefish, eel, carp, burbot, perch and whitefish. The already extinct in the lakes in Germany Perlfisch has protected the room Steinbach and its habitat is.

Climate history

In the years 1830, 1876, 1879, 1891, 1901, 1928/29 ( the coldest winter in 154 years ), 1963, the lake was frozen over.

Tourism

Shipping

Ship traffic on the Attersee is an important element in this tourist area represents the history of commercial navigation on the Attersee Austria's largest inland lake can be traced back to 1869.

Boating

Sailing and motor boating are very common. However, an absolute ban applies in the months of July and August for motor boats. Of the eight sailing clubs of the Union Yacht Club Attersee is the oldest and largest on the lake.

Known among sailors am Attersee, the wind rose. Also, the west wind is whether his powerful and unpredictable gusts known and feared by sailors.

Diving

Due to the extremely good visibility up to 25 meters of the Attersee is a popular dive site. Especially on the southeast side of the lake its steep walls extend to the deepest part of the lake. On 18 September 2005 Hans Brandstätter reached 165 meters, setting a new Austrian record.

Attracted by the good view and such records also appear many scuba divers in far too great depths. Every year, about five divers am Attersee fatal accidents.

Cycling

Once a year, usually in mid-September, a car -free biking experience day is held where a 48 km route around the lake on the Attersee road (B 151) and Seeleiten road ( B 152 ) is closed to car traffic.

Others

• The spätimpressionistische painter Albert Weisgerber 1911 painted his self-portrait on the Attersee
• The Federal Vision Song Contest 2009 Flowin Immo et les Freaqz sang the Attersee am Attersee holiday with the song
• The Austrian writer Hans Eichhorn is a professional fisherman on the Attersee.
• The Attersee is also called (rare, rather outdated :) Kammersee. 40 km southeast of it springs the Traun waterfall in the - other, tiny - Kammersee the Toplitzsee, Styria.