Chiemsee
Chiemsee is the largest lake in Bavaria, Germany. This article covers the municipality that consists of the islands of Herrenchiemsee, Frauenchiemsee and the uninhabited Krautinsel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 172 residents
- Description: freshwater lake in Bavaria, Germany
- Also known as: “09187123” and “Chiem-see”
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Herrenchiemsee and Herreninsel.
Herrenchiemsee
Castle
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Herrenchiemsee is a complex of royal buildings on Herreninsel, the largest island in the Chiemsee lake, in southern Bavaria, Germany. Together with the neighbouring isle of Frauenchiemsee and the uninhabited Krautinsel, it forms the municipality of Chiemsee, located about 60 kilometres southeast of Munich in the district of Rosenheim.
Herreninsel
Island
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Herreninsel is a 238 hectare island in Bavaria's largest lake, Chiemsee. It is the biggest of the lake's three main islands, Fraueninsel and Krautinsel joining it to form the municipality of Chiemsee.
Kloster Herrenchiemsee
Museum
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Kloster Herrenchiemsee is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prien am Chiemsee and Chiemsee.
Prien am Chiemsee
Prien am Chiemsee is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Rosenheim in Germany. Located 16 kilometres east of Rosenheim, the town is a certified air and Kneipp spa on the western shore of Chiemsee, Bavaria's largest lake.
Chiemsee
Village
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Chiemsee is a municipality in the district of Rosenheim in Bavaria in Germany, named after the lake Chiemsee. It is Bavaria's smallest municipality by area and the second smallest by population.
Chiemsee
- Category: lake
- Location: Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Chiemsee” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيمزيه”
- Aragonese: “Chiemsee”
- Armenian: “Կիմզեե”
- Basque: “Chiem aintzira”
- Basque: “Chiemsee aintzira”
- Bavarian: “Cheamsee”
- Bulgarian: “Кимзе”
- Bulgarian: “Кимзее”
- Catalan: “Llac Chiem”
- Cebuano: “Chiemsee”
- Chinese: “基姆湖”
- Chuvash: “Кимзе”
- Croatian: “Chiemsee”
- Croatian: “Kimsee”
- Croatian: “Kimsko jezero”
- Czech: “Chiemské jezero”
- Danish: “Chiemsee”
- Dutch: “Chiemsee”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره كيمزيه”
- Esperanto: “Chiemsee”
- Estonian: “Chiemsee”
- Finnish: “Chiemsee”
- French: “Chiemsee”
- French: “lac de Chiem”
- Georgian: “კიმზეე”
- German: “Chiemsee”
- Hebrew: “כימזה”
- Hungarian: “Chiemsee”
- Indonesian: “Chiemsee”
- Indonesian: “Danau Chiem”
- Interlingue: “Chiemsee”
- Italian: “Chiemsee”
- Japanese: “キーム湖”
- Kazakh: “Кимзе”
- Kirghiz: “Кимзе”
- Korean: “킴호”
- Latgalian: “Azars Kimzī”
- Latin: “Lacus Chiemensis”
- Latvian: “Kīmezers”
- Lithuanian: “Chymzė”
- Lithuanian: “Kimo ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Кимско Езеро”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chiemsee”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chiemsee”
- Norwegian: “Chiemsee”
- Persian: “کیمزی”
- Polish: “Chiem”
- Polish: “Chiemsee”
- Portuguese: “Lago Chiem”
- Portuguese: “Lago Chiemsee”
- Romanian: “Chiemsee”
- Russian: “Кимзе”
- Russian: “Химское озеро”
- Serbian: “Кимско језеро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chiemsee”
- Slovak: “Chiemske jazero”
- Slovenian: “Chiemsee”
- Slovenian: “Chiemsko jezero”
- Slovenian: “Kimsko jezero”
- Spanish: “Chiemsee”
- Spanish: “Lago Chiem”
- Swedish: “Chiemsee”
- Ukrainian: “Кімзе”
- Ukrainian: “Кімзее”
- Upper Sorbian: “Chiemsee”
- Upper Sorbian: “Chiemski jězor”
- Venetian: “Chiemsee”
- Vietnamese: “Chiemsee”
- Wu Chinese: “基姆湖”
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