Lake Ossiach is located in the southern Nock Mountains range of the Gurktal Alps along the road from Villach to Feldkirchen. The lake is 501m (1,644ft) above sea level. Its average depth is 19.6 m (64.30 ft) with a maximum depth of 52.6m (173ft). The total surface area is approximately 10.8km2 (4.2sqmi).
Lake Ossiach is a dimictic lake with mixing periods in spring and in late autumn. In summer the waters reach 28 °C at the surface. Several uninhabited parts of the shore are protected as natural reserves. The main inflow is Tiebel Creek in the eastern bay, where the Bleistatt Moor has been re-naturalised. The lake empties via Seebach Creek into the Drava (German: Drau) River.
Primary villages on the lake are Annenheim at the western end, Sattendorf and Bodensdorf on the northern shore, Steindorf at the eastern end, and Ossiach on the southern shore. Sattendorf and Annenheim belong to the municipality (German: gemeinde) of Treffen. Bodensdorf and Steindorf belong to the municipality of Feldkirchen. The lake is named after Ossiach Abbey. Mount Gerlitzen rises over the northern side of the lake, reaching 1,909m (6,263ft) at its summit. From Annenheim, the Kanzelhöhe subpeak of Mount Gerlitzen can be reached by a cable car built in 1928 by the Bleichert engineering company.
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Bezirk Feldkirchen is a district of the state of Carinthia in Austria.
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Feldkirchen in Kärnten is a town in the Austrian state of Carinthia and the capital of the district of the same name. It consists of the Katastralgemeinden Fasching, Feldkirchen, Glanhofen, Gradisch, Hoefling, Klein Sankt Veit, Pernegg, Rabensdorf, Sankt Ulrich, Sittich, Tschwarzen and Waiern. The name Feldkirchen means the church in the fields.
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Reichenau is a municipality in the district of Feldkirchen in the Austrian state of Carinthia.
Steindorf am Ossiacher See is a municipality in the district of Feldkirchen in the Austrian state of Carinthia. It is the home of the Teuffenbach royal family.
Techelsberg am Wörther See is a municipality in the district of Klagenfurt-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia.
Deutsch-Griffen is a municipality in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan in Austrian state of Carinthia.
The Weissensee is a lake in the Austrian state of Carinthia within the Gailtal Alps mountain range. The highest situated Carinthian bathing lake shares its name with the municipality of Weissensee on the northern and southern shore.
Prägrad Castle is a ruined medieval castle in Carinthia, Austria. It is located near Feldkirchen on a hillside above the road to Lake Ossiach.
The Dösener See is an alpine lake of Carinthia, Austria. It is part of the High Tauern National Park and located in the municipality of Mallnitz.
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The Gurktal Alps is a mountain range in the Central Eastern Alps in Austria which is named after the valley of the Gurk river. The range stretches west to Lake Millstatt and east to Neumarkter Sattel. The highest peak is Eisenhut at 2,441m .
The Ossiach Tauern is a wooded mountain ridge in the Austrian state of Carinthia between Lake Ossiach in the northwest and the Wörthersee in the southeast. The highest point of the Ossiach Tauern is the Taubenbühel which is 1,069 m (AA). At its western end, on a prominent hill, are the ruins of Landskron Castle. Not far from the re-opened castle, which is now used as a restaurant and falconry station, hikers can join the Tauern hiking trail to the Jungfernsprung, a rock formation that drops steeply to Lake Ossiach, from where there is an extensive view of the western part of the lake and the Gerlitze. An old quarry is visible from Villach, which until recently used to produce rocks for river engineering in Carinthia. In the Ossiach Tauern there are also several old mining galleries. Centuries ago, zinc and other ores were mined here.
The Nock Mountains are the westernmost and highest mountain range of the Gurktal Alps in Austria, spread over parts of the federal states of Carinthia, Salzburg and Styria. Their appearance is characterised by numerous dome-like and grass-covered summits (Nocken). Their highest peak is the Eisenhut in Styria which reaches an elevation of 2,441 m (8,009 ft) AA.
Tiffen is a cadastral municipality in Steindorf am Ossiacher See, in the district of Feldkirchen in the Austrian state of Carinthia.
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