Lake Kochel
Kochelsee or Lake Kochel is a lake 70 kilometres south of Munich on the edge of the Bavarian Alps. The western 1.7 km² or 28.3 percent of the lake lies within the borders of the town of Schlehdorf, while the rest belongs to Kochel am See.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Schlehdorf, Bavaria, Germany
- Also known as: “Kochelsee”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Franz Marc Museum and Stein.
Franz Marc Museum
Museum
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The Franz Marc Museum is a museum located in Kochel am See, Upper Bavaria, dedicated to German Expressionist painter Franz Marc. The museum shows paintings by Franz Marc, and also works of art of his contemporaries and other important artists of the 20th century, in a permanent and in temporary exhibitions.
Stein
Peak
Stein is a mountain in Bavaria, Germany, located south-east of Kochel am See over Lake Kochel.
Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station
Industrial building
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The Walchensee Power Plant is a hydroelectric power station in Bavaria, Germany. It is a storage power station that is fed water from the Walchensee which is then released into the Kochelsee.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kochel and Schlehdorf.
Kochel
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Kochel am See is a municipality and a town in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria, on the shores of Kochelsee. The municipality consists of the Altjoch, Brunnenbach, Ort, Pessenbach, Pfisterberg, Walchensee and Ried districts.
Schlehdorf
Village
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Schlehdorf is a municipality in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria in Germany. Schlehdorf Abbey is located there.
Großweil
Village
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Großweil is a municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria, Germany. Großweil is situated 4½ km northwest of Lake Kochel.
Lake Kochel
- Category: body of water
- Location: Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Kochel from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Lake Kochel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوشيلسي (بحيرة)”
- Arabic: “كوشيلسي”
- Aragonese: “Kochelsee”
- Basque: “Kochel aintzira”
- Bavarian: “Kochesää”
- Bavarian: “Kochlsee”
- Catalan: “Llac Kochel”
- Cebuano: “Kochelsee”
- Chinese: “科赫爾湖”
- Chuvash: “Кохельзе”
- Danish: “Kochelsee”
- Dutch: “Kochelsee”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره كوتشيلسى”
- Esperanto: “Kochelsee”
- French: “lac de Kochel”
- French: “Lac de Kochel”
- German: “Kochelsee”
- Macedonian: “Кохелзеј”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kochelsee”
- Polish: “Jezioro Kochel”
- Polish: “Kochelsee”
- Portuguese: “Kochelsee”
- Portuguese: “Lago Kochel”
- Russian: “Кохельзе”
- Russian: “Кохельское озеро”
- Spanish: “Lago Kochel”
- Ukrainian: “Кохель (озеро)”
- Ukrainian: “Кохель”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Kochel”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kessel-Berg and Kien-Stein.
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