Königssee
The Königssee is a natural lake in the southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the Austrian border. Most of the lake is within the Berchtesgaden National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Schönau am Königsee, Bavaria, Germany
- Also known as: “Konig See”
- Historically known as: “Koni”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Bartholomew’s Church, Berchtesgaden and Archenkanzel.
St. Bartholomew’s Church, Berchtesgaden
Church
Photo: Daniel FR, Public domain.
St. Bartholomew's is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church in the Berchtesgadener Land district of Bavaria in Germany. It is named after Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, patron of alpine farmers and dairymen.
Archenkanzel
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Horemu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Watzmann is a mountain in the Berchtesgaden Alps south of the village of Berchtesgaden. It is the third highest in Germany, and the highest located entirely on German territory.
Feuerpalven
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Horemu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Feuerpalven is a mountain of Bavaria, Germany. It is located in the Gotzen Mountains, a sub-range in the Hagen Mountains of the Berchtesgaden Alps.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schönau am Königssee and Berchtesgaden.
Schönau am Königssee
Village
Photo: Geolina163, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Schönau am Königssee is a municipality in the district of Berchtesgadener Land in the German state of Bavaria. It is located at the northern end of the Königssee lake. Schönau am Königssee is situated 6 km north of Königssee.
Berchtesgaden
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Berchtesgaden is a small, picturesque and historic town in the southeast of the German state of Bavaria, within a small enclave surrounded on three sides by the Austrian border.
Obersalzberg
Locality
Photo: Tobi85, Public domain.
Obersalzberg is a mountainside retreat situated above the market town of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, Germany. Located about 120 kilometres south-east of Munich, close to the border with Austria, it is best known as the site of Adolf Hitler's former mountain residence, the Berghof, and of the mountaintop Kehlsteinhaus, popularly known in the English-speaking world as the "Eagle's Nest". Obersalzberg is situated 10 km northeast of Königssee.
Königssee
- Category: body of water
- Location: Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Königssee” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كونيجسي”
- Aragonese: “Königssee”
- Armenian: “Քյոնիգսզեե”
- Basque: “Königssee aintzira”
- Bavarian: “Keenigssää”
- Bavarian: “Kenigssää”
- Bavarian: “Kenigssee”
- Bavarian: “Königssee”
- Bengali: “কোনিগ্স্জে”
- Bengali: “ক্যোনিগ্স্জে”
- Bulgarian: “Кьонигсзе”
- Bulgarian: “Кьонигсзее”
- Catalan: “Königssee”
- Cebuano: “Königssee (lanaw sa Alemanya)”
- Cebuano: “Königssee”
- Chinese: “国王湖”
- Chinese: “國王湖”
- Chinese: “柯尼希湖”
- Chuvash: “Кёнигсзе”
- Czech: “Königsee”
- Czech: “Königssee”
- Danish: “Königssee”
- Dutch: “Koenigssee”
- Dutch: “Konigssee”
- Dutch: “Königssee”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره كونيجسى”
- Esperanto: “Konigssee”
- Esperanto: “Königssee”
- Finnish: “Königssee”
- French: “Konigssee”
- French: “Königssee”
- Galician: “Königssee”
- Georgian: “კენიგსზეე”
- German: “Königssee”
- Hebrew: “אגם המלכים”
- Hungarian: “Königssee”
- Indonesian: “Danau Königs”
- Indonesian: “Königssee”
- Italian: “Koenigssee”
- Italian: “Königssee”
- Japanese: “ケーニッヒ湖”
- Japanese: “ケーニヒス湖”
- Japanese: “ケーニヒ湖”
- Latgalian: “Konigzī”
- Latvian: “Karaļezers”
- Latvian: “Kēnigszē”
- Latvian: “Kēnigzē ezers”
- Latvian: “Königssee”
- Lithuanian: “Kenigzė”
- Macedonian: “Кенигсзе”
- Macedonian: “Кралско Езеро”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Konigssee”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Königssee”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kønigssee”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Königssee”
- Norwegian: “Königssee”
- Persian: “کونیگسی”
- Polish: “Konigssee”
- Polish: “Königssee”
- Portuguese: “Königssee”
- Portuguese: “Lago do Rei”
- Romanian: “Königssee”
- Romanian: “Lacul Konig”
- Romanian: “Lacul König”
- Russian: “Варфоломеево озеро”
- Russian: “Кёнигсзе”
- Russian: “Кенигсзее”
- Russian: “Кёнигсзее”
- Russian: “Королевское озеро”
- Slovak: “Königssee”
- Slovenian: “Kraljevo jezero”
- Spanish: “Konigssee”
- Spanish: “Königssee”
- Spanish: “Lago del Rey”
- Spanish: “Lago Konigssee”
- Spanish: “Lago Königssee”
- Swedish: “Königssee”
- Thai: “เคอนิชส์เซ”
- Turkish: “Königssee”
- Ukrainian: “Кенігзее”
- Venetian: “Königssee”
- Vietnamese: “Königssee”
- Western Panjabi: “کونگسی”
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