Lake Walchen
Walchensee or Lake Walchen is one of the deepest and largest alpine lakes in Germany, with a maximum depth of 192.3 metres and an area of 16.4 square kilometres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Kochel, Bavaria, Germany
- Also known as: “Walchensee” and “Walchensee (Německo : jezero)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include LSG Walchensee and Insel Sassau im Walchensee.
LSG Walchensee
Protected area
Photo: Maya Kandler, CC BY-SA 4.0.
LSG Walchensee is a protected area.
Insel Sassau im Walchensee
Nature reserve
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Insel Sassau im Walchensee is a nature reserve.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sachenbach and Walchensee.
Walchensee
Village
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Walchensee is a small fishing village in the Kochel municipality at a height of 803 metres and a population of 250 plus tourists. It is located directly on the western banks of the Lake of the same name. Walchensee is situated 2½ km west of Lake Walchen.
Jachenau
Village
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Jachenau is a municipality in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria in Germany. Jachenau is situated 7 km east of Lake Walchen.
Lake Walchen
- Category: body of water
- Location: Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Walchen from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Venetian—“Lake Walchen” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Walchensee”
- Arabic: “والتشينسي (بحيرة)”
- Arabic: “والتشينسي”
- Aragonese: “Walchensee”
- Basque: “Walchensee”
- Bavarian: “Walchnsee”
- Bavarian: “Woichnsää”
- Catalan: “Walchensee”
- Cebuano: “Walchensee”
- Chinese: “瓦尔兴湖”
- Chinese: “瓦爾興湖”
- Chuvash: “Вальхензе”
- Czech: “Walchensee (Německo : jezero)”
- Danish: “Walchensee”
- Dutch: “Walchensee”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره والتشينسى”
- Esperanto: “Walchensee”
- French: “lac Walchen”
- French: “Lac Walchen”
- French: “Walchensee”
- German: “Walchensee (Německo : jezero)”
- German: “Walchensee”
- Indonesian: “Danau Walchen”
- Indonesian: “Walchensee”
- Italian: “Walchensee”
- Japanese: “ワルヘン湖”
- Lithuanian: “Valchenzė”
- Macedonian: “Валхензе”
- Macedonian: “Валхенско Езеро”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Walchensee”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Walchensee”
- Norwegian: “Walchensee”
- Polish: “Jezioro Walchen”
- Polish: “Walchensee”
- Russian: “Вальхензе”
- Spanish: “Lago Walchen”
- Spanish: “Walchensee”
- Swedish: “Walchensee”
- Ukrainian: “Вальхен”
- Ukrainian: “Вальхензеє”
- Venetian: “Walchensee”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kirchelwand and Katzen-Kopf.
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