Top 20 Natural Monuments around Sankt Kanzian am Klopeiner See

Lake Gösselsdorf is located in the heart of a nature reserve. It invites you to stroll, linger, and dream all year round. In summer, the water temperature reaches up to 27 degrees Celsius, making it the perfect place to cool off on warm days. Its water is clear and of drinking quality. It is also known that calamus grows in the lake, which makes for particularly beautiful, supple skin.

I have to disagree with my predecessor. The lake is said to have very good, healing water, despite, or perhaps because of, the water lilies...

Approx. 15 min. climb to the Wildenstein Waterfall. The highest free-falling waterfall in Europe. It's definitely worth it.

The entire lake is 80% covered with water lilies.

Beautiful lake, but not really suitable for swimming as it is 80% covered with water lilies.

Impressive waterfall with a drop of 50 meters. The highest of its kind in Europe. From the car park, the path takes you up to the waterfall in serpentines and is sometimes quite steep, taking another 15 minutes. The path is closed to bicycles!

The Devil's Stone in the Jauntal valley near Globasnitz in Carinthia. According to legend, the rock was broken off the Petzen (a 2126 meter high mountain peak a little further south) by the devil in anger over an escaped soul and hurled into the Jauntal valley. The devil's thumbprint can still be seen on the front today.

Its name already suggests that the approximately six-meter-high structure made up of three rock blocks piled on top of each other cannot simply be a freak of nature. According to legend, the devil is not only the eponym, but is said to have had a hand in the construction of the stone himself. Seen from a distance, the walls of the stone initially appear quirky and crooked. Up close, however, a flat surface is revealed. This could have been formed either by the weather or by human hands. Several scientific studies have already dealt with this question as well as the question of the astronomical significance of the stone. Measurements have shown that the Teufelstein, together with the Königskogel and four old churches in the area, forms a geometric pattern in the shape of a dragon or deltoid. Another astronomical peculiarity is the orientation of the large, flat wall, which points to the axis of the great lunar solstice as well as that of the winter and summer solstices. According to scientists, this cannot be just a coincidence, but rather the stone tower was precisely aligned. (Source: http://www.calendersign.com/de/aa_teufelstein.php.3.8.2014) Perhaps it was the devil himself who placed the rocks on top of each other in exactly this way? In any case, the legend of the Devil's Stone says that the fallen angel Lucifer tried to build a tower to heaven on Christmas Eve. He would have had time until the second bell rang during communion to be taken back to heaven. When this attempt failed, he is said to have left the unfinished tower on earth in a rage and returned to hell himself. In any case, it seems certain that the Devil's Stone, as it is popularly known, has always had a special attraction for people. The Styrian poet Peter Rosegger once reported on a mass, the so-called "Teufelsteinkirtag", which is said to have taken place annually on St. Lawrence's Day at least until 1890. Now, more than 100 years later, around 500 people gather at the Teufelstein on the morning of the winter solstice to watch the sunrise. For a long time, the Teufelstein was considered a pagan cult site and was demonized by the church, but today the site is a mystical place that many people find to be filled with a unique atmosphere and power and that still poses a mystery to science.