Toplitzsee#

Toplitzsee Lake, province of Styria, alt. 718 m, situated to the north of Bad Mitterndorf (alt. 809 m) and to the south of the Totes Gebirge Mountains. Mountain lake 2 km long, 400 m wide and 103 m deep; drained by the Toplitzbach stream, which flows westward to Lake Grundlsee; the nearest village is Goessl (alt. 720 m) on Lake Grundlsee. Between 1943 and 1945 a big laboratory was situated directly on the shore of Toplitzsee in which weapons and mines were tested by the German navy. At the end of the war several boxes with counterfeit sterling banknotes were sunk in the lake by the Nazis.

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