According to Zipcodesexplorer, Wolfgang See is a mountain lake among the gentle slopes of the Salzkammergut, covered with forests. The lake is stylized as an antique steamer “Kaiser Franz Josef I”, as well as a modern boat “Wolfgang-Amadeus”. Many tourists who come on an excursion to St. Wolfgang take a boat trip to St. Gilgen. There is a wonderful fish restaurant next to the pier.

A boat trip along the route St. Gilgen – St. Wolfgang will take 45 minutes (adult ticket ~ 7-8 EUR), sailing from St. Gilgen to Strobl will last 1 hour 15 minutes (adult ticket ~ 8-10 EUR), and from Sant -Wolfgang to Strobl – half an hour (adult ticket ~ 5-6 EUR).

How to get there

Flight to Vienna or Munich, then an internal flight or train transfer to Salzburg, and from Salzburg – either by taxi or by rental car to the selected resort.

Rest on the lakes is almost always a multiple of a week, since few hotels confirm accommodation on “crooked” dates, that is, not from Saturday to Saturday, therefore it is more convenient to fly from Moscow only on Saturdays.

The main resorts of Wolfgang See

St. Wolfgang

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Here is the famous Gothic cathedral with a no less famous altar of the 15th century. On the steep streets of the town there are many shops with a huge selection of Austrian national clothes for children and adults. Local Benedictine monks sculpt amusing soap figures at their leisure. Soap flowers, animals, fruits, little men are very original souvenirs. Here you can calmly relax by the water, ride a boat, climb the mountains by cable car, take walks along the winding mountain paths.

Saint-Gilgen

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Those who want to enjoy peace and at the same time learn something new love to relax in this town. For example, visit the house where Mozart’s mother was born, baroque cathedrals, climb to a height of 1521 meters on the lift, from where a magnificent view of the Alps opens.

Strobl

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This resort is located on the eastern shore of the lake and boasts the best beaches in the entire Salzkammergut. There is a funicular to the Zwelferhorn and Schafberg mountain peaks, many cafes, restaurants and pastry shops, and, of course, plenty of opportunities for water sports.

bad Ischl

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The cultural and geographical center of the Salzkammergut region, 50 km east of Salzburg, on the banks of two rivers: Traun and Ischl. Bad Ischl became popular after the successful stay of the ruling Habsburg family, Archduke Charles and Princess Sophia, here. Medical procedures solved their problem of childlessness “in excess” – as many as three sons were born. Composers Johann Strauss and Ilmar Kalman, Romy Schneider, Helmutt Kohl, Karl Lagerfeld, Nikita Khrushchev and many other notorious personalities have been here.

The city has a spa clinic, numerous boarding houses and a rehabilitation center.

The beaches of Wolfgang See

There are no beaches in the usual sense on the lakes. Most often, these are soft grassy lawns with an entrance to the water along wooden piers.

Hotels

Wolfgang See hotels do not always correspond to their category. As a rule, they belong to families, hence the especially hospitable attitude towards tourists with children. Most of the hotels are located on the coast and have their own beaches. If the hotel has its own beach, then most often sunbeds and umbrellas on it are provided free of charge, but if the beach is municipal, then the entrance to it will be paid (from 5 EUR). In hotels, food is usually half board, breakfast is a buffet, dinner is a la carte, in private boarding houses – breakfast only. The quality of the buffet depends on the level of the hotel: the higher it is, the closer the buffet is to the concept of a “buffet”. Most hotels have restaurants, bars, gyms, saunas, many with swimming pools.

Entertainment and attractions

In St. Wolfgang, it is worth visiting the famous Gothic cathedral with its no less famous altars of the 15th century, the Europa Fountain and the Pilgrim Fountain, the Puppet Museum and the famous Weisses-Ressl Hotel. On the steep streets of the town there are many shops with a huge selection of Austrian national clothes for children and adults. In the city, at the foot of the Zwölferhorn, is the house where Mozart’s mother was born. And not far from Strobl is one of the most beautiful mountain plateaus of the Eastern Alps, Postalm.

The Schafbergbahn deserves special attention – the coolest (in the literal sense) steam cog railway in Austria. It has been operating since 1893 and leads from St. Wolfgang to the Schafberg mountain, passing almost 6 km in 40 minutes and gaining a height of 1190 m. The steam locomotives serving it are among the oldest in the world.

The Puppet Museum and the famous Weisses-Ressl Hotel in St. Wolfgang, the Zwölferhorn mountain in St. Gilgen and one of the most beautiful mountain plateaus of the Eastern Alps – Postalm near Strobl.

Operetta festival in July-August, holidays of folk, classical, jazz music, jousting tournaments, concerts. 25 tennis courts and halls, golf course, equestrian and ski sports, fishing, hiking trails, cycling, riding arena, golf park, outdoor ice rink.

According to Ethnicityology, the main attraction of Austria is, of course, Vienna. Over the years, countless interesting places and entire areas have accumulated here. Vienna can be called one big attraction. The main tourist spot in the city is Stephansdom, which can be safely called a world-famous cultural heritage. This building is not afraid of competition. Stephansdom is a church, so the best time to visit it is during worship. On weekdays, the service starts at 07.00, and on weekends at 10.00. In addition, services are held on major holidays, it is at this time that the church is amazingly decorated. Many scientific and cultural figures devoted their works (books, studies, paintings, etc.) to such a seemingly simple building. The appearance of the cathedral is amazing, it seems to consist of hundreds of thousands of the smallest details, which make it the architectural treasury of Austria and the symbol of Vienna. The building has two towers, tourists can climb the south tower by stairs, and the north one is equipped with a special elevator. It is believed that everyone who has visited Vienna must visit this place. It is also interesting to visit the High Market Square. This is one of the most ancient parts of Vienna. Archaeologists, under the bridge of this place, discovered the remains of the Roman camp of Windbonne. After excavations, it turned out that there was a whole settlement here. In the 14th and 15th centuries, there were court buildings and a pillar of justice on this site, and sentences were announced from the balcony. The last execution at this place took place in 1703. Then, in the middle of the century, merchants who sold fish were noisy here. The so-called “Ring” is a few buildings (university, the burgtheater, the Vienna Opera, the stock exchange and the town hall), which form a kind of ring along with the embankment. Here are some of the most beautiful buildings in the city, as well as wonderful parks that attract many tourists. It is hard to believe, but some 150 years ago the center of the capital was surrounded by a wall, and only in 1857 the emperor ordered the fortification to be demolished and a boulevard built around the center. The construction of the “Ring” was completed only in 1865, two huge alleys 6.5 km long and 57 meters wide stretched along numerous buildings, and between the buildings there are beautiful parks for recreation. At the moment, this place is practically no different from what it was here at the time of completion of its construction. You can see all its sights on the tram, which travels along the entire Ringstrasse. Another famous city in Austria is the birthplace of Mozart – Salzburg. The main city attraction is the cathedral, which was built in the 13th century, as well as the cave, which is located in the south of the city. If skiing is your main goal, then this place will not disappoint you.

National cuisine of Austria

Austrian cuisine has its own established traditions, but some areas still have their own culinary customs. The variety of national cuisine is very large and Austrian cuisine is considered one of the most diverse in Europe. Meanwhile, most often the local cuisine is called not Austrian, but Viennese, which highlights the importance of the capital in its formation. The Austrian morning usually starts with a cup of coffee or milk and bread with jam or butter. In hotels and hotels, in addition to coffee, you can choose cold meat, cheese or a hot egg dish. In the provinces, breakfast can be more hearty with the inclusion of various soups, sausages, potatoes, etc. In Austria, a variety of sausages are very popular. They are usually part of a meal and are served with mustard and garnished with potatoes or salad. The main meat dish is the Viennese schnitzel, which is a large piece of veal that is fried in breadcrumbs. Due to the fact that this dish is fried very quickly, much attention is paid to its quality. When it comes to local drinks, many people consider Austria to be a country of beer. In a sense, this is true, the quality of beer produced here is practically no different from any European beer. The culture of its consumption is also well developed. The best beers are: Ottakringer, Gosser, Stiegl, etc. In addition to local beer, you can buy Czech and German beer in most bars.

Transport

In almost every city in Austria, public transport consists of buses, trams and, in some cities, trolleybuses. Vienna transport is represented by metro, trams and commuter trains. Buying a one-time pass costs 1.5 euros, this pass can be used in any transport, you can also buy a day pass – 5 euros and for three days – 12 euros. You can call a taxi by phone or hire taxi drivers standing around the clock at airports and hotels. Catching a taxi on the street is useless. Currency exchange On weekdays, banks are open from 08.00 to 17.30 with lunch breaks, and at airports and train stations, banks usually work until 20.00-22.30. You can quickly exchange money in automatic exchangers gutted throughout the country, but the commission in them is higher than when exchanging at a bank.

The ordinary rolling roads – excluding the country roads, the mule tracks and the paths – measured for the whole of Austria, at the end of 1924, km. 31,252, equal to km. 37.2 every 100 sq. Km. and km. 4.8 every 1000 residents These figures are quite remarkable, if one thinks of the predominantly mountainous nature of the territory and the location of the inhabited centers, almost all located on the valley floor, so the main network is arranged in large meshes along the natural directions of movement. After Vorarlberg and Salzburg, the best served provinces for ordinary communications are Lower Austria with 9.2 km. every 1000 residents and then immediately the Tyrol (5.4), in spite of its great mountain masses, Carinthia (4.8) and Styria (3.8); while Upper Austria (3.2) and Burgenland (2.9) are relatively scarce, although they also have a large part of flat land.

The first Austrian railway line was that of Semmering, inaugurated in 1854 and extended in 1857 for Graz up to Trieste. In 1867 the Brenner one was completed; in 1873 the third transversal line was built, from Bohemia to Trieste to Vienna; in 1879 the Italian line to Pontebba was inaugurated, but the longitudinal ones along the Danube were already ready, from Passau to Linz, Vienna and Presburgo, the other of the Pusteria from Fortezza to Klagenfurt to Marburg, and then the one from Wörgl in Inn valley, Bischofshofen (Salzburg), Selztal (Enns valley) and Leoben (Mur valley) to unite Tyrol with Vienna; and finally in 1884 the Arlberg railway from Innsbruck to Bregenz on Lake Constance was inaugurated. All these lines more or less followed the natural route of the carriage-free communications, but between 1905-1908 the new Tauern and Karavanke line was built, to put Linz and Bohemia in direct communication with Trieste. Today even the Austrian railway network, within the new borders, is but a set of fragments of a larger organization, created for the economy of the great empire and destined to connect its agricultural, mining and industrial regions (Bohemia, Moravia, Galicia, Hungary) with the Alpine regions, as well as the capital with Trieste. There were also international lines from west to east crossing at Vienna, which served to make this the center of communications with Eastern Europe. The new state has preserved only the westernmost trunks of this network, in a mountainous and costly operation area, and of the international lines only six sections cut by the new borders without regard to traffic needs (such as the one from Vienna to Trieste), and with the main crossing stations in foreign territory: Gmünd, Břeclav (Lundenburg) and Bratislava in Czechoslovakia, Győr (Raab) and Sopron (Ödenburg) in Hungary, Marburg and Jesenice (Assling) in Yugoslavia. The Austrian railway network was at the end of 1924, of km. 6610, i.e. 1 km. every 12.65 sq. km. and 987 residents These are notable figures in themselves, for an essentially Alpine state (km. 7.9 every 100 kmq.; Italy 6.9 km.), To which km. 399 of narrow-gauge railways and inter-provincial tramways, insufficient above all for the traffic of the Alpine provinces, where, as in the Tyrol, there are barely km. 3.7 of railway for every 100 sq. Km. surface; 5.8 km. of railways you have in Salzburg; 6.5 and 6.3 in Styria and Carinthia, pure industrial regions, while there are km. 9.3 and 11.8 in Upper and Lower Austria, flat and densely inhabited regions (783 and 650 residents per km of railway), and Burgenland, with 7.6 km. every 100 sq. km. of surface and 929 residents for every km., it represents one of the best served provinces. For Austria 2003, please check computerannals.com.

Today the most important longitudinal lines for traffic are: the Passau-Vienna-Presburgo, section of the international communication London-Paris-Vienna-Balkan Peninsula (Passau-Vienna 5 hours); the Vienna-Leoben-Villach-Tarvisio for communications with Italy (9 am); the Vienna-Leoben-Selztal-Bischofshofen-Wörgl-Innsbruck-Arlberg-Constance, for communications with Switzerland (3 pm). The trunks of two traversal lines were then left to Austria: Břeclav (Lundenburg) – Vienna – Graz – Marburg – Trieste of the great artery from Bohemia to the Adriatic (Vienna-Trieste at 2 pm); and the other Salzburg – Schwarzach -Villacco – Jesenice (Assling) – Piedicolle-Trieste for the relations of southern Germany with the Mediterranean (Salzburg-Trieste 11 am). Of these lines are electrified today (1927) km. 161 of the Innsbruck-Bludenz section of the Arlberg railway; km. 108 of the Salzkammergut railway, from Stainach to Attnang, and km. 34 from Innsbruck to Brenner, without counting the less important lines such as the Scharnitz-Innsbruck (km. 34), the Zillertalerbahn (km. 32) and others. However, the electrification of another 350 km has already been decided. of alpine railways; these include the continuation of electrification from Bludenz to Constance, the Salzburg-Schwarzach-St. Weit-Wörgl, as well as Schwarzach-St. Weit-Spittal of the Tauern railway, that is of the railways of the western Austrian group with steep slopes and considerable traffic.

In 1924 the wagon-kilometers traveled were 800,391,000, which carried 108,702,819 people, with an average of km. 33.5 per person and 22,746,459 tons of goods; movement which is reduced by about 30% compared to that of the pre-war period, but which is rapidly gaining, although the exercise is still passive.

The waterways that remained in Austria were, at the end of 1924, km. 1732, of which 874 for the floating of timber, 838 for navigable rivers and 21 for canals, that is a total of km. 2.06 every 100 sq. Km. of surface. The maximum length of the waterways belongs to Upper and Lower Austria, which are crossed by the Danube for almost 350 km. in length, of which 200 are well navigable, the others in need of improvement, but which are crossed by passenger and cargo steamers from Passau to Presburgo. Downstream from Vienna, navigation is possible for steamboats with a capacity from 650 to 1000 tons, with draft up to 2 meters; upstream of Vienna some rocks prevent navigation for steamboats with a draft from 1.3 to 1.2 m. In 1924 270,000 tons were loaded in the Austrian ports of the Danube. of goods and 835,000 tons were unloaded, while there were 280,000 of them in transit; then there was a movement of 700,000 passengers. Of the other provinces only Carinthia has 4 km. of regular steam services, while Styria has 123 navigable towpaths, Salzburg 45 and Tyrol only 15; but Styria, Carinthia and Tyrol benefit from many alpine rivers for the floating of the timber (km. 331; 254; 142).