Lake Toplitz
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Lake Toplitz Toplitzsee | |
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Location | Salzkammergut |
Coordinates | 47°38′30″N 13°55′40″E / 47.64167°N 13.92778°E |
Primary outflows | Toplitz (Austria)(de) |
Basin countries | Austria |
Max. length | 1.9 km (1.2 mi) |
Max. width | 400 m (1,300 ft) |
Max. depth | 103.022 m (338.00 ft) |
Water volume | 33,700,000 m3 (1.19×109 cu ft) |
Surface elevation | 718 m (2,356 ft) |
Lake Toplitz (German: Toplitzsee) is a
In 1943 and 1944 during
In 1959, investigators recovered £700 million of counterfeit notes from the lake, which
The area is only accessible on foot, via a private mile-long track that serves the Fischerhütte (Fisherman's Hut) restaurant at the western end.[3]
Toplitzsee in fiction
Lake Toplitz is mentioned in the scene in the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger where Bond receives the gold bar used to tempt Auric Goldfinger (played by Gert Fröbe); the bar is said to have been part of a Nazi hoard that was recovered from the lake. For Fröbe, this was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the 1959 German movie Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee, where he also played the main antagonist – the undercover ex-SS officer who (within the context of Goldfinger) had led both the placement of the Nazi hoard in the lake, as well as the post-war recovery operation.
In the 1981 TV series Private Schulz, Lake Toplitz serves as a location where 50 million forged British pounds are being dumped by the Nazis; the scene in question, however, was filmed at a reservoir in South Wales.
The novel The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes involves Nazi secret files found in a lake in similar circumstances to Lake Toplitz (Finstersee). Lake Toplitz is mentioned throughout the book also. Finstersee is the scene of action and is also shown on slides in the movie, The Salzburg Connection, based on the book.
The novel Not Alone by Craig A. Falconer stated that Nazis hid a flying saucer in the lake along with other artifacts.
In the novel Amber - A Dane and Bones Origins Story, Lake Toplitz is visited by the main characters as part of their search for the Amber Room.