obertraun

Updated: May 22, 2025

After much conjecture, I learned that they were the family and friends of a newspaper editor from Vienna. They had the literary instinct for local colour. The fishing at Hallstatt is at Obertraun. There is a level stretch of land above the lake, where the river flows peaceably, and the fish have leisure to feed and grow.

Henry Van Dyke - Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness