43 Lake/ River/ Ponds to Explore in Germany

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Germany

Country with the largest population in Europe. Stretches from the North and the Baltic Sea in the north to the Alps in the south. It is traversed by some of Europe's major rivers such as the Rhine, Danube and Elbe.

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Lake/ River/ Ponds to Explore in Germany

Mahndorfer See

The Mahndorfer See is a quarry pond in the south of Bremen with an area of ​​22.4 hectares and a maximum depth of 15 meters. The state border runs through the lake, the eastern bank belongs to the town of Achim in the district of Verden , Lower Saxony. The lake was created in 1961/62 during the construction of the A1 motorway. It got its current size by removing sand for the construction of the Mercedes plant in Bremen.

Maschsee

Maschsee is an artificial lake located in the heart of Hannover city, this place is a famous recreation and water-sports area. In summer Maschsee houses events and boat trips, and during the winter the lake freezes and become a beautiful place for ice skating.

Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve

The Middle Elbe biosphere reserves with its unique flora and fauna lies in Saxony-Anhalt and extend among other places along with Lutherstadt Wittenberg. The natural floodplain landscape on the Elbe is home to many endangered animals and plants, such as the kingfisher, the sea eagle, or the rare Siberian sword lily. The symbolic animal and most famous representative of this landscape is the Elbebeiber, which can grow undisturbed in the protected and natural meadowlands of the Elbe.

Moritzburg Castle

Moritzburg Castle originally was a hunting lodge built in Renaissance style in 1542, and later became a Baroque royal palace. The castle is furnished with examples of opulent baroque decor and visitors can take a tour and explore its rooms. The castle sits on a symmetrical artificial island in Dresden, Saxony, Germany.

Mulde

The Mulde is a river in Central Germany. It is formed when the Zwickauer Mulde and the Freiberger Mulde coming from the Erzgebirge meet near Colditz. It runs on through the Saxon towns Grimma, Wurzen, and Eilenburg to Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt. The river flows three kilometers north of Dessau into the Elbe River. The Mulde has a length of 124 kilometers and is one of the fastest rivers in Central Europe. It is not navigable.

Mummelsee

A 17-metre-deep lake at the western mountainside of the Hornisgrinde in the Northern Black Forest of Germany. According to legends, the lake is inhabited by a water spirit.

Ochtum

The Ochtum, together with its longest source river, is about 59 kilometers long left tributary of the Weser. The Ochtum flows in Lower Saxony and Bremen on the southwestern edge of the Wesermarsch northwest parallel to the slope of the Syker Geest, from which it also flows most of its tributaries.

Old Bridge Heidelberg

It connects the Old City with the eastern part of the Neuenheim district of the city on the opposite bank. The current bridge, made of Neckar sandstone and the ninth built on the site, was constructed in 1788 by Elector Charles Theodore and is one of the best-known landmarks in Heidelberg.

Ratzeburger See

The Ratzeburger See is a lake in the southeast of Schleswig-Holstein in the Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park. Amidst the lake is an island upon which the City of Ratzeburg is located, accessible from the mainland via three isthmuses. The island is home to the Old Town, including a cathedral - one of the oldest in Germany.

Rheinuferpromenade

This popular destination for tourists in the city is a world-renowned 0.5 km promenade located in district 1, the industrial district in Düsseldorf. It was built around 1900 and redesigned in 1995.

Saarschleife

It is also called the Great Bend in the Saar, a water gap made by the Saar River in a quartzite layer, and it is one of the most well-known tourist attractions of the state of Saarland.

Schaalsee

The 24 km² large Schaalsee is a lake on the border between Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Germany It is one of the deepest lakes in Germany and was in 2019 as a Living Lake of the Year Award. It was home to a good population of large predatory fish and also there are several islands and peninsulas in the Schaalsee, of which the Kampenwerder peninsula is the largest.

Schalkenmehrener Maar

A volcanic crater lake(Maar) formed around 10,500 years ago from an explosion occured from interaction between magma and water. It is a part of a double maar which includes another eastern dry maar. The crater lake is about 500 meters in diameters and 21 meters in depth.

Schultheis-Weiher (Schultheis pond)

Surrounded by meadows, fields and garden, Schultheis pond is a quick getaway on a hot summer day. The lake is surrounded by a nature reserve and offers sunbathing area.

Selenter See

The Selenter See is the second-largest lake in the North German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The lake is also known for its abundance of fish. It contains eels, perch, pike, and large and small vendace, as well as a roach in large quantities. It was used as a water airport because of its long, compact body of water, which had its landing site in Bellin on the sandy beach there.

Silbersee Stuhr

The Silbersee is a quarry pond in the municipality of Stuhr in the district of Diepholz. The lake, which was created in the 1960s when the Federal Motorway 1 was built, is located south of Moordeich and west of Brinkum directly on the motorway. The lake, which is used as a bathing lake , is mostly surrounded by trees. There are campsites in the south and west. In the north of the lake, there are two beach areas with a slide and a bathing island with a diving board and diving tower.

Stadtwaldsee

The Stadtwaldsee is an excavation lake in Bremen, Germany. It is commonly known as the Unisee due to its proximity to Bremen University. At an elevation of 1 m, its surface area is 28.2 ha. The western end of the lake is currently used by windsurfers, anglers and divers. A water-skiing facility being planned in 2005 and 2007 caused a dispute. A citizens' initiative and a majority of the City Advisory Council on one side were in opposition to the Ministry for Interior and Sport on the other side.

Strandbad Langener Waldsee

The Langener Waldsee is the largest bathing lake in the Rhine-Main area. Surrounded by forests and providing opportunities for swimming, surfing, sailing, fishing and campings, it is visited by 20,000 people in peak summer days.

Süßer See

The Süße See is a lake in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. He is fed by the evil seven, which leaves him near Seeburg towards Bindersee. Since the salty lake was drained at the end of the 19th century, of which only Kerner and Bindersee remained, the Süße See has been the largest natural standing water in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz. Contrary to what the name suggests, the lake water is salty, as in the other existing or drained Mansfeld lakes.

Westliches Hollerland

Hollerland originally referred to a cultural landscape in the north and east of Bremen, which was made arable by Dutch settlers in the 12th century. Due to the construction of extensive suburban settlements, especially since the 1960s, only remnants of the original cultural landscape reclaimed by the Dutch have been preserved. Today one only calls the one in the Horn-Lehe district and nature reserve designated part as Hollerland.

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