Photos Lake Hallstatt in Winter

Hallstätter See or Lake Hallstatt is a lake in Salzkammergut, Austria. It is named after Hallstatt, a small market town famous for its salt mining since prehistoric times and for being the starting point of the world's oldest still-working industrial pipeline, used to transport brine to Bad Ischl and further to Ebensee.
  • Location: Salzkammergut
  • Primary inflows: Traun River
  • Primary outflows: Traun River
  • Basin countries: Austria
  • Max. length: 5.9 km (3.7 mi)
  • Max. width: 2.3 km (1.4 mi)
  • Surface area: 8.55 km² (3.30 sq mi)
Data from: en.wikipedia.org