The Thumsee (from the Latin word dumosus, German overgrown with scrub) is a lake in the district Karlstein about three kilometers west of the city center of Bad Reichenhall and …
According to a legend, giants danced a round dance all night long on the previous forest meadow, stamping the forest floor so that a large hole in the ground was formed. This filled with water and formed the Listsee.
The lake was formed as a terminal moraine lake after the melting of the Salzach Glacier about 10,000 years ago. Today, it is subject to inexorable silting. The lake, which …