About this place
Tucked at the northern entrance to the village along Gosaumühlstraße, this unassuming stretch of lakeshore is the most photographed angle in the Alps. Looking south, the pastel houses of Hallstatt seem stacked impossibly between the water and the steep wooded slope of the Salzberg, with the slim neo Gothic spire of the Evangelical Lutheran church rising at the centre and the Dachstein massif closing the horizon. It is the image that has travelled the world on posters, calendars and screensavers, and the picture that turned a tiny salt mining hamlet of a few hundred residents into a global icon. The composition works because Hallstatt has almost no flat ground, so the village reflects in the still lake like a mirror, doubling its beauty at dawn and dusk.
Key facts
- 1997 year — Hallstatt and the Dachstein Salzkammergut landscape became a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- 940 million dollars — Budget for the full scale replica of Hallstatt built in China in 2012
- 7000 years — Of continuous salt mining that made this lakeside village world famous
📍 Gosaumühlstraße 82, 4830, Hallstatt