The Five Lakes Land is the Upper Bavarian Seascape from Ammersee, starnberger Lake, Pilsensee, Woerthsee, Weßlinger See and many other smaller lakes at the gates Munich.
places
- Seefeld (570 m) on the Pilsensee, with a castle and the oldest oak alley in Europe.
- Steinebach (560 m), local recreation area on Woerthsee;
- Weßling (592 m) on the lake of the same name.
- Iffeldorf (603 m), located on the Osterseen and south of the Starnberger See.
at the starnberger Lake, West bank:
- Starnberg (588 m), district town at the northern end of the lake.
- Poecking (972 m), with the "Sissi Castle" Possenhofen;
- Tutzing (611 m) with lock.
- Bernried (600 m) with the Buchheim collection.
- Seeshaupt (597 m) a little quieter at the southern end of the lake, with the nature reserve of the Osterseen.
at the starnberger Lake, East bank:
- mountain (639 m) with lock;
- Münsing (666m), holiday community and artist residence;
- Saint Heinrich, with a former pilgrimage church;
at the Ammersee:
- Andechs (690 m) with the Benedictine monastery and world-famous brewery;
- Dießen am Ammersee (535 m), with monastery and Marienmünster;
- Herrsching am Ammersee (568 m) with the longest lakeside promenade in Germany (10 km);
- Schondorf am Ammersee (565 m), vacation spot;
- Utting at the Ammersee;
- inning (553 m), holiday resort on Ammersee and Wörthsee;
- Pähl (591 - 760 m) resort at the southern end of the Ammmersee;
background
The typical Bavarian hilly moraine landscape in front of the gates Munich is a popular holiday and excursion destination. The region around Lake Ammersee and Lake Starnberg offers a wide range of opportunities for sport, relaxation, leisure and vacation.
language
German and Bavarian are spoken.
getting there
Public transport
The Upper Bavarian Lakes are located in the southwest of the Munich area and have over the MVV Connection to the Munich S-Bahn system with the S6 lines (stations: Stanberg, Possenhofen, Tutzing at Lake Starnberg) and S8 stations: Steinebach at the Wörthsee; Seefeld-Hechendorf at the Pilsensee; and Herrsching am Ammersee). The S8 also provides a connection to Munich Airport. In addition, the BRB (Bayerische Regiobahn) runs from Augsburg to Schongau in the west of the Ammersee. In addition, various MVV regional bus routes operate in the area.
To the south of the Ammersee there are also RVO bus lines and LVG lines to the west.
road
Cross Starnberg - Starnberg; starnberger Lake
Munich - Lindau; Exit Wörthsee and Inning a. A.; Wörth- / Ammersee
mobility
Tourist Attractions
Lakes
starnberger Lake
| Data on Lake Starnberg: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surface: | 56.4 km² | |
| Volume: | 3.0 km³ | |
| Scope: | approx. 46.0 km | |
| Wide length: | approx. 19.45 / 4.68 km | |
| Depth (medium / max): | 53.2 / 127.7 m | |
| Height above NN: | 584 m |
The Starnberger See is the fifth largest lake in Germany after the surface, measured by the water volume it even takes second place behind Lake Constance because of its depth.
The lake has had the official name "Starnberger See" only since 1962, before it was called the Würmsee (occasionally still in use today) after the Würm, because the Würm is the outflow of the lake near Starnberg. The Würm (also Wirm) is also eponymous for the last great ice age, the Würme Ice Age (from about 115,000 to 10,000 years ago).
About half of the lakeshore is open to the public, the remaining part is occupied by the villas of mostly wealthy celebrities.
The area of the lake is a so-called community-free area and is administered by the Starnberg District Office: The places on the lake shore in the northern part belong to the Starnberg district, the places on the southwestern part partly belong to the district Weilheim - Schongau, Parts of the places on the southeastern bank belong to the district Bad Toelz / Wolfratshausen.
The Rose Island with casino, gardener's house and rosarium is the only island in Lake Starnberg. The prehistoric pile dwellings on the Roseninsel have been part of the UNESCO world cultural heritage.
More detailed information see also in the article on starnberger Lake.
Ammersee
| Data on the Ammersee: | |
|---|---|
| Surface: | 46.6 km² |
| Volume: | 1.75 km³ |
| Scope: | approx. 43.0 km |
| Wide length: | approx. 16.2 / 5.0 km |
| Depth (medium / max): | 37.8 / 81.1 m |
| Height above NN: | 532.9 m |
The Ammersee owes its formation about 16,000 years ago, like the neighboring pre-alpine lakes, to the melting of the Ice Age glaciers. The lake originally extended south from what is today Weilheim and Peissenberg to Grafrath in the north and was almost forty kilometers long. As a result of the gravel debris fed into the tributaries, especially the Ammer in the south and the Windach in the north, the Ammersee silted up and shrank to its present size. The silting is still going on today, the "lifespan" of the Ammersee is estimated to be around 20,000 years.
More detailed information see also in the article on Ammersee.
Woerthsee
| Data on the Wörthsee: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surface: | 4.34 km² | |
| Volume: | 63,627,000 m³ | |
| Scope: | approx. 9.9 km | |
| Wide length: | approx. 1.2 / 3.7 km | |
| Depth (medium / max): | 14/34 m | |
| Height above NN: | 560 m |
The expression "Wörth" is derived from Middle High German Werth returned: the word means something like island or bank. The old name for the Wörthsee is also Mausinsel, named after the only island in the lake that is officially called "Insel Wörth" today.
Next Steinebach with Walchstadt is also inning represented with its districts Bachern and Schlagenhofen on the west bank of the Wörthsee.
Tributaries are the Auinger Bach, the Bulachbach, the Günteringer Feldbach, the Torf-Mühlgraben and also some underground springs. The outflow of the water is carried out by the Inninger Bach, which flows into the vom Ammersee coming amper opens.
Thanks to a circular sewage treatment plant, the Wörthsee is one of the cleanest Bavarian baths, the water temperature reaches an average of 22 degrees in summer due to the mean depth of only 14 meters, but 25 degrees are easily possible, so the Wörthsee is also one of the warmest lakes in the region . Just as the lake heats up quickly in summer, it also freezes over easily in winter and is then very popular with ice sports enthusiasts.
A good three quarters of the entire lakeshore are privately owned and not accessible to the public. A small part is closed to the general public for ecological reasons, the following applies here Do Not Enter. They share the rest Lidos. The border on foot or by bike is possible on an approx. 11 km long route mostly on secondary routes and near the lake, but direct access to the lake is often denied.
The Wörthsee is also part of the "Western part of the Starnberg district" landscape protection area.
More detailed information on the Wörthsee see also the article on the municipality Steinebach.
Pilsensee
| Data on the Pilsensee: | |
|---|---|
| Surface: | 1.95 km² |
| Volume: | 18,095,000 m³ |
| Scope: | approx. 6.5 km |
| Wide length: | approx. 2.55 / 0.76 km |
| Depth (max): | 17.1 m |
| Height above NN: | 534 m |
The Pilsensee, formerly also called Seefelder See and also called Binsensee because of the reeds and rushes on the shore, is the second smallest of the five large lakes in the Fünfseenland region.
About a third of the 6.5 km bank length is protected as a biotope and inaccessible, it is "prohibited to enter". Most of the west bank and another 43 percent of the length of the bank is a residential area and is therefore also closed to the public. Only about seven percent of the entire bank is accessible, the bathing facilities are mainly on the east bank on the Seefeld side.
More detailed information on the Pilsensee see also the article on the municipality Seefeld.
Weßlinger See
| Data on the Weßlinger See: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surface: | 0.17 km² | |
| Volume: | 1,047,000 m³ | |
| Scope: | approx. 3.0 km | |
| Wide length: | approx. 0.72 / 0.24 km | |
| Depth (max): | 12 m | |
| Height above NN: | 592 m |
The almost circular Weßlinger See is the center of the community today Weßling. The body of water arose as "Lacken", that is a dead ice hole from the last ice age, which filled with water after a huge block of ice, protected from direct sunlight by overflowing rubble and sand, had melted. The Weßlinger See has no natural inflows or outflows and therefore has no naturally grown fish population. Attempts with the fish used failed due to the lack of oxygen in the lake.
A few years ago the lake threatened to tip over completely, but thanks to a circular sewer system from 1970 and deep water aeration installed in 1981, the water quality has improved significantly in the meantime. The artificial lung sucks in 3500 m² of air per day and pumps it into the lake, so the small water fountain in the lake level is not a spectator amusement but the guarantee for the bathing water quality grade 1 according to the EU classification.
More detailed information on the Weßlinger See see also the article on the community Weßling.
Easter lakes
The nature reserve of the Osterseen is, depending on the method of counting, approx. 19 - 24 smaller individual lakes, including Gartensee, Ameisensee, Schilfhüttensee, Brückensee, Ursee, Gröbensee, Lustsee and Stechsee, the total area of the lakes is around 225 hectares with a medium one Depth of a good nine meters. The name is traced back to the direction of the east and has no relation to Easter, the many individual lakes, some of which are interconnected, are also referred to as the "tears" of Lake Starnberg.
The total area of around 1000 hectares of the lake landscape lies on the grounds of the communities Iffeldorf ("Iffeldorfer Seegruppe": southern and middle Osterseen with the large Ostersee) and Seeshaupt (Stechsee and Frechensee) at the southern end of the Starnbeger See.
The depressions of the lakes were formed at the end of the Würm Ice Age 12,000 years ago after the glacier retreat from dead ice blocks, these are huge individual ice blocks that were protected from rapid melting by rubble and therefore only thawed slowly. The funnel-shaped cauldrons that remained were filled with meltwater and groundwater and formed the lake landscape.
The swampy high moor landscape could not be used by humans for a long time and was therefore only sparsely populated until the end of the 19th century. Due to modern agriculture and the growing use of artificial fertilizers, the nutrient supply in the lakes increased with simultaneously decreasing water quality, so the region around the Osterseen was designated as a landscape protection area in 1955. The rarest animals and plants have their habitat in the largely undisturbed natural area: gentians and flour primroses, Turkish leagues and wild roses, orchids of all kinds, lapwing, kingfishers, bitterns, wild geese, sand martins and ospreys are native here.
With the development of traffic in the region and bathers from Munich, the Osterseen area was on the verge of complete ecological collapse in the 1970s with up to 10,000 visitors a day and was therefore declared a nature reserve in 1981. The result was strict traffic restrictions and a limitation of bathing areas and (chargeable) parking spaces, the number of visitors on peak days could be halved to less than 5,000 people.
In May 1997 the Osterseen were designated as SPA (European bird sanctuary) and FFH area according to the Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive, in 2006 by the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment with the seal of approval "Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes“And has Europe-wide significance in basic scientific research.
The natural idyll is a popular hiking region; there are designated bathing areas on the east bank of the Großer Ostersee, on the eastern Breienauersee and on the south and east banks of the Fohnsee (fees apply). The most atmospheric moments are the morning and evening hours with the melancholy of the fog, the most famous painter at the beginning of the 20th century was here Georg Schrimpf.
Detailed scientific info in the Limnological station of the Technical University of Munich (in Iffeldorf) and at Wikipedia: Easter lakes.
More Attractions
Castles
- Wörth Castle
- Seefeld Castle
- and other locks
Monasteries and churches
- former Andechs monastery
Museums
- Book House Museum, in Bernried. See the corresponding chapter at starnberger Lake.
activities
- Swimming
- sailing
- surfing
kitchen
nightlife
Five Lakes Film Festival. Bavaria's second largest film festival takes place every year at the end of July in the cinemas of Starnberg, Seefeld, Herrsching am Ammersee, Weßling (Pfarrstadl) and Woerthsee instead of. The festival consists of over 300 screenings, with a focus on feature films and documentaries from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Tickets are available directly from the cinemas.
security
For water sports activities: storm warning from the rotating spotlights on the lake: (only Wörth, Starnberger and Ammersee)
- 40 flashes per minute, orange: pre-storm or strong wind warning
- 90 flashes per minute, orange: storm warning
climate
trips
to Munich
literature
: Upper Bavarian lakes. gain: Michael Müller Publishing House, 2009 (3rd edition), ISBN 978-3-89953-473-3 ; 264 pages.
Web links
- Tourist Association Five Lakes - Land: www.sta5.de;
- Bavarian lake shipping: www.seenschifffahrt.de;
- Tourism Association Upper Bavaria: www.oberbayern-tourismus.de (supraregional);
