Eissee

It was left behind by the melting of the Hallstätter Glacier that, until the middle of the 19th century, still extended as far as the doline of the upper Taubenkar.

[2] When the glacier retreated (today its snout lies at about 2,200 metres [7,200 ft]), the Lower Eissee was left behind in the basin, because the moraine gravel is lined with limestone silt.

For a long time after it had been formed, roughly to the turn of the century, large fields of dead ice could be found on its shores, but today they have disappeared.

This rapidly grew in size as a result of further melting until it measured about 100 by 50 metres (330 by 160 ft) and was up to 10 metres (33 ft) deep, but subsequently shrank again to only a fifth of this size due to the climate conditions.

In 1951 it covered an area of 4 hectares (9.9 acres); at that time the glacier was still calving into the lake.