Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser is a municipality in the district Kufstein

Kufstein (district)

The Bezirk Kufstein is an administrative district in Tyrol, Austria. It borders Bavaria in the north, the Kitzbühel district in the southeast, and the Schwaz district in the southwest....

 in the Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n region of the Sölllandl

Sölllandl

Sölllandl is a local term for a geographical region in Austria that covers the villages of Söll , Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser, Ellmau and Going am Wilden Kaiser in the Tyrolean Unterland between Wörgl and St...

. It is located 8.50 km southeast of Kufstein

Kufstein

Kufstein is a city in Tyrol, Austria, located along the river Inn, in the lower Inn valley, near the border with Bavaria, Germany, and is the site of a post World War II French sector United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Displaced Persons camp.Kufstein is the second largest city...

 as well as 13 km northwest of Kitzbühel

Kitzbühel

-Demographic evolution:-Personalities:*Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre , entomologist and botanist*Alfons Walde , expressionist painter and architect*Peter Aufschnaiter , mountaineer and geographer...

 and has 3 sub-districts. Main source of income is Summer tourism; the village possesses a public swimming area. It has 1333 inhabitants.

Located just outside of the village is the Hintersteiner See

Hintersteiner See

Hintersteiner See is a lake of Tyrol, Austria....

- the largest lake in the Wilder Kaiser valley.