Hintersteiner See

The Hintersteinersee Lake is a mountain in the nature reserve Wilder Kaiser and belongs to the municipality of Scheffau in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

The lake is formed during the last ice age and is at an altitude of 882 m above sea level. A.. Underground springs fill the lake with crystal clear water. The Hintersteinersee lake is privately owned by the Tyrolean Hydropower AG and is used in a gentle manner to generate electricity. Outflow is in the Weißache.

Lakeside is a public beach available. We recommend a one-hour walk around the lake, passing by a few snack bars and the most beautiful places on the lake.

The legend of the Lake Hintersteiner

In background stone lived arrogant rich peasants, pushed on her juicy home pasture, this was the area where is located the rear Steiner lake today with butter tubers cone. It was a moonlit night when they played again. Suddenly the ground swayed under their feet, and they sank together with the house and yard in depth. The farmers but have been hinaufverbannt for her iniquities on the Scheffauerspitze and have to push for punishment cone, as long as the Emperor is there. This Kegelstatt is slightly below the top of the Scheffauers in a covered with fine moss carpet little rock basin.

After the story the rich Hintersteinersee farmers had a heated argument about a source. Even at the high feast of Corpus Christi festival they fought all day, and at last was even still wrestled. As the next day early in the morning the common milkmaid of the peasants, a right -creating, pious thing, the dispute was long counter, went to the home pasture for milking, she saw in front of the house a small pool of water, which was otherwise never been a. They remarked, shaking his head, but went on. After a long search they found the cows that were close to each other to their astonishment in a sink. They milked quickly to come back soon in the yard, she saw from the top of the sink from only the roof of a single house out of the water.