Directly on the lake

When a hotel becomes a lost place

Since the sale of the hotel complex, construction site fences and prohibition signs have adorned the tourist resort.(Bild: Schwab Alexander)

In 2019, the state sold the vacation village in Ossiach to a private entrepreneur at a bargain price. Since then, this former leading tourist resort on the lake has fallen into disrepair. The municipality is struggling to find a solution and is reopening the real estate deal.

Directly in front of the center of the Carinthian lakeside community, construction fences have been blocking the entire leisure facility and access to Lake Ossiach for several years now. Not only has the municipality of Ossiach lost a flourishing year-round business and thus a boost for local tourism with the sale of the former ÖGB vacation village, which was last successfully operated by Sotour Austria; the sale also meant the end of the summer kindergarten and the only free access to the lake in the tourist resort.