The Legend Trail starts at the mid-station of the Loser Panorama Cable Car and leads to the Stellenkogel Hut without any significant elevation gain.
The Salzkammergut guards a vast treasure of legends and stories.
Some of these oral traditions can be discovered at five storytelling stations:
The Golden Spring
Population growth in the entire region increased rapidly and steadily. As a result, the demand for larger pastures also rose, and larger herds of sheep, goats, and especially dairy cows were needed, since the demand for milk, cheese, meat, wool, and leather was also growing. For this reason, farmers had to act wisely and with foresight. They decided to make use of every single square meter of the available land …
The Merman of Lake Altaussee
Many times, the people of Arzleiten saw, on their way to church, a naked man swimming in Lake Altaussee near the hill above Villa Nassau. His upper body would repeatedly rise above the water, while his lower half appeared fish-like and could only be seen upon close inspection. One day, the villagers dared to speak to the man in the lake. He said to them that he …
The Gift to the “Salige” Women
The "Saligen" are mystical female beings from the local world of legends who also had power over the various alpine spirits. These spirits had different tasks and were usually friendly and well-meaning. They watched over the cattle on the alpine pastures by keeping the herds together, preventing cows from falling off steep rock faces, or sometimes helping the herders find lost young animals. In return, they often received small …
The Legend of the Waldgrabner Farm
In the Waldgraben district of Altaussee were the so-called Waldgrabner farms, which are the setting of the following legend. Waldgraben lies somewhat hidden behind the Pflindsberg – a wooded hill at the foot of the Sandling and today home to the Pflindsberg ruins. At that time, prospectors from the south – often called Venedigermandl, but locally just Wauggerl – came as far as the Ausseerland. These foreigners were …
The Wild Women
The word "wild" had a very different meaning in Middle High German, the language spoken at the time many legends originated. Back then, it meant something like "free" or "independent" – hence the "free women" were also known as the Wild Women. And in earlier times, some of these Wild Women, also known as the Saligen, lived in the Trisselberg cave. On beautiful, sunny days, they could be seen …
How Salt Was Discovered
A shepherd from the village would lead the farmers’ and fishermen’s sheep up to the mountain meadows of the Sandling every day, and the animals willingly followed him towards Moosberg. Once there, they would eagerly drink the spring water that surfaced in certain places. One day, the shepherd grew curious and tasted the water himself – but he immediately spat it out, as it tasted very salty. That evening, he told the …
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