Natural feature
Baggersee Innsbruck
Former gravel pit turned groundwater-fed lake with sunbathing lawns and a floating dock.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Baggersee Innsbruck, the city's second-largest lake in the Rossau district, traces how a nineteen-sixties gravel pit almost became a power plant instead of a swimming spot. It follows the local residents who pushed back when the city's lease ran out in nineteen seventy-five, and the water tests that decided the lake's fate two years later. Best heard lakeside, looking out at water fed by nothing but groundwater rising beneath the surface.
This audio guide was created using AI.