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Ammersee
Sign in to saveAmmersee (; English: Lake Ammer) is a Zungenbecken lake in Upper Bavaria, Germany, southwest of Munich between the towns of Herrsching and Dießen am Ammersee. With a surface area of approximately , it is the sixth largest lake in Germany. The lake is at an elevation of , and has a maximum depth of . Like other Bavarian lakes, Ammersee developed as a result of the ice age glaciers melting. Ammersee is fed by the River Ammer, which flows as the Amper out of the lake. Like neighbouring Lake Starnberg - deeper, bigger in surface area, similar in shape - it is a popular location for watersports.
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- AmmerseeLake Ammer
- Body of water.image
- Aerial image of the Ammersee (view from the south).jpg
- Body of water.caption
- Aerial view of the Ammersee from the south
- Body of water.location
- Upper Bavaria
- Body of water.inflow
- River Ammer
- Body of water.outflow
- Amper
- Body of water.basin_countries
- Germany
- Body of water.residence_time
- 2.7 years
- Body of water.islands
- Schwedeninsel
- Body of water.cities
- Herrsching, Dießen am Ammersee, Schondorf, Breitbrunn, Utting, Buch, Riederau, Eching, Inning
- Body of water.pushpin_map
- Germany
- Body of water.pushpin_map_alt
- Location in Germany
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Named after
- Amper
- Country
- Germany
- Area
- 46.6
- Elevation
- 532.9
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Aerial image of the Ammersee (view from the south).jpg
- Width
- 5.35
- Length
- 15.175
- Perimeter
- 43
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- outflows
- Amper
- volume as quantity
- 1.75001
- watershed area
- 993.02
- Commons category
- Ammersee
- topic's main category
- Category:Ammersee
- Commons gallery
- Ammersee
- residence time of water
- 2.7
- heritage designation
- Ramsar site
- vertical depth
- 81
- basin country
- Germany
- hashtag
- Ammersee
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Ammersee (; English: Lake Ammer) is a Zungenbecken lake in Upper Bavaria, Germany, southwest of Munich between the towns of Herrsching and Dießen am Ammersee. With a surface area of approximately , it is the sixth largest lake in Germany. The lake is at an elevation of , and has a maximum depth of . Like other Bavarian lakes, Ammersee developed as a result of the ice age glaciers melting. Ammersee is fed by the River Ammer, which flows as the Amper out of the lake. Like neighbouring Lake Starnberg - deeper, bigger in surface area, similar in shape - it is a popular location for watersports.
Ammersee and the Amper are part of the ancient Celtic amber trading route leading to the Brenner Pass. The word Ammer is a 13th-century form of Amper, the Celtic *ambra, deriving from the Indo-European , "wet, Water".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ammersee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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