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title: Gschmå-places in the Salzkammergut
url: "https://www.salzkammergut.at/en/salzkammergut-lakes/artikel/detail/3031/gschma-places.html"
description: "Some of our most spectacular places are just \"gschmå\". Read the explanation and feel like a local."
date: 2019-03-27
modified: 2025-04-09
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# Gschmå-places in the Salzkammergut

Gschmå - let's try to explain what it means!
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Some of our most spectacular places are just “gschmå”. Read the explanation and feel like a local.

Native language in the Salzkammergut region is German. Well, written language is German. Our spoken language is a strong German dialect even German natives are sometimes not able to understand. A speciality of German language is that it differs from region to region and from village to village.
 One word only used around the Salzkammergut lakes is **“gschmå”**.

“Gschmå” simply means unique, great, very special, cool, gorgeous, superb, wow and a combination of all those words. To get the real “gschmå”-feeling the most beautiful places around the **Wolfgangsee lake** were equipped as picnic, resting and viewing points.
 Just go there and visit one of those very special places.

There is no better way to explain what “gschmå” really means!

### Die Gschmå-Places in the Salzkammergut

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     ![Blinklingmoos2](data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== "Blinklingmoos2 (© Copyright: WTG)")

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###  Gschmå Platzl Blinklingmoos

 . .. the view that inspires! Grasshopper diversity - the chirping grasshopper - Bank 1 The chirping grasshopper (Tettigonia cantans) is one of the largest native grasshoppers. It can grow up to 35 mm long. It is named after its loud song, which can be heard over 50 m from mid-…

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     ![The boat to the lake](data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== "The boat to the lake (© Copyright: WTG)")

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###  The boat to the lake!

 . .. the view that inspires! Already in the Middle Ages, pilgrims were rowed across the lake to St. Wolfgang in the so- called "Plätten". Even animals, food and building materials found room in this practical and aesthetic boat. The flat bottom and the long, raised top, which…

 ](https://www.salzkammergut.at/en/salzkammergut-lakes/oesterreich-poi/detail/430015143/the-boat-to-the-lake.html)

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     ![Fishing flies](data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== "Fishing flies (© Copyright: Klemens Fellner)")

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###  Gschmå Platzl Fish-shaped sun beds

 . .. the view that inspires! The uniquely clear and excellent water quality and its abundance of fish distinguish Lake Wolfgang as a fisherman's paradise. The presence of the endangered pearl fish also vouches for the quality of the water. The 12. 8 km² Wolfgangsee is divided…

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     ![Wolfgangsee Water Lilies](data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== "Wolfgangsee Water Lilies (© Copyright: Mirja Geh)")

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###  Gschmå Platzl Water Lily

 . .. the view that inspires! Water - the elixir of life "Without water there is no life". Lake Wolfgang is particularly aware of this fact. In terms of cleanliness and water quality, the lake is among the top in all of Europe and was therefore selected by the European Union as a…

 ](https://www.salzkammergut.at/en/salzkammergut-lakes/oesterreich-poi/detail/430015138/gschmaa-platzl-water-lily.html)