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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 (since 1596) and further to Ebensee .
View of Hallstatt. 1895 map (from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 4th ed.), showing the area between c. and , centered on. The Salzkammergut (Austrian German: [ˈsaltskamɐɡuːt], Northern German: [ˈzaltskamɐɡuːt] ⓘ; Central Austro-Bavarian: Soizkaumaguad) is a resort area in Austria, stretching from the city of Salzburg eastwards along the Alpine Foreland and the Northern Limestone Alps ...
A view of Hallstatt in 1899 Hallstatt viewed from the south, Hallstatt Museum. Until the late 19th century, it was only possible to reach Hallstatt by boat or via narrow trails. The land between the lake and mountains was sparse, and the town itself exhausted every free patch of it.
Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps are a series of prehistoric pile dwelling (or stilt house) settlements in and around the Alps built from about 5000 to 500 BC on the edges of lakes, rivers or wetlands.
The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Western and Central European archaeological culture of the Late Bronze Age (Hallstatt A, Hallstatt B) from the 12th to 8th centuries BC and Early Iron Age Europe (Hallstatt C, Hallstatt D) from the 8th to 6th centuries BC, developing out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th century BC (Late Bronze Age) and followed in much of its area by the La Tène ...
The site includes several lake crossings, the earliest dating back to the Horgen culture. Several Early Bronze Age construction phases have been identified, as well as remains from the Hallstatt culture and Roman era providing dendrochronological dates about periods from which no other sites are known.
The creek is 7.5 miles (12.1 km) long. [1] It flows east-northeast until it reaches Cache Creek 1 mile north of Lower Lake. [2] The creek runs through Seigler Canyon, which is about 3 miles (4.8 km) long, with its head about 0.6 miles (0.97 km) east of Seigler Springs, a village, and its mouth about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of the village of Lower Lake.
Lake County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 68,163. [5] The county seat is Lakeport. [6] The county takes its name from Clear Lake, the dominant geographic feature in the county and the largest non-extinct natural lake wholly within California. [7]