Höglwörther See

Höglwörther See
Geographical location	Bavaria , Germany
Tributaries	Höglwörther Seebach, Moosgraben
Drain	Rauschbach → Ramsauer Bach → Sur
Islands	Höglwörth (peninsula, former island)
Places on the shore	Höglwörth
	Data
Coordinates	47 ° 48 '57 " N , 12 ° 50' 33" E Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '57 " N , 12 ° 50' 33" E
Altitude above sea level	532 m above sea level NHN
surface	13.5 ha
length	523 m
width	414 m
volume	432,000 m³
Maximum depth	6.40 m
Middle deep	3.2 m

The Höglwörther See (also: Klostersee) is a lake in the Höglwörth district of the municipality of Anger in the Berchtesgadener Land district . It is around 13.5 hectares in size and up to 6.4 m deep and is characterized as eutrophic . The Höglwörth monastery is located directly on the lake or on the (former) island of Höglwörth . Before silting up in the east, today's 2.2 hectare peninsula was an island ( Wörth is an old word for island), as can also be seen on the land map from the 19th century.

The lake was formed after the Saalach glacier melted about 10,000 years ago. Today it is subject to inexorable siltation . The Höglwörther See is a terminal moraine lake of particular geoscientific value and has been designated as a geotope by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment .

It offers the habitat of numerous animal species, such as pike , catfish , pikeperch , eel , carp , perch , tench , whitefish , ducks , coots and mute swans . The crabs that originally lived in the lake have already disappeared.