- MONDSEE, ST GILGEN and ST WOLFGANG PART 4 -

St Wolfgang 2

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We leave the church and return to the area around the White Horse Inn. The The inn is on the side of the lake where various appropriate facilities are on offer (left) ....

.....and the tourist business area is close by, with shops attempting to sell Christmas merchandise in the middle of June (below) !!

Time to take a ride around St Wolfgang and the surrounding countryside....

We are soon on the outskirts of St Wolfgang and enter the countryside leading to the Wolfgangsee.

The Wolfgangsee stretches about 10.5 kilometres from the north west to the south east. 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 is completely surrounded by the Salzkammergut mountain range. On the northern side, the Schafberg mountain is located. A rack railway, the Schafbergbahn leads up to the summit at 1,782 metres. In the south and southwest of the Wolfgangsee lies the Osterhorngruppe, with heights up to 1,800 metres.

The settlements around the lake, especially St. Wolfgang and St. Gilgen are popular resort towns, mainly in summer. The area around the lake was the location of several Heimatfilm movies, suggesting an untouched alpine idyll.

As the Wolfgangsee 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.



En route transport 'servicing' (below).

Storm clouds over Wolfgangsee (right).
Time to return to Weyregg !!