{"id":1172,"date":"2026-06-07T21:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/item\/walchensee\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:04:10","slug":"walchensee","status":"publish","type":"citadela-item","link":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/item\/walchensee\/","title":{"rendered":"Walchensee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:1.15em;line-height:1.6;color:#3a352f;\">The Walchensee, with its deep-blue to turquoise shimmering water, is one of the most beautiful and largest mountain lakes in Germany. Framed by the Herzogstand and Jochberg, it is a popular destination for bathing, sailing, windsurfing and diving. From the Herzogstand the view reaches over the lake to the nearby Kochelsee.<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Deep-blue to turquoise water<\/li>\n<li>Local mountains Herzogstand and Jochberg<\/li>\n<li>Popular for sailing, surfing and diving<\/li>\n<li>View from the Herzogstand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Good to know<\/h2>\n<table class=\"at-vergleich\" style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;\">\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Special feature<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">one of the largest mountain lakes in Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Local mountains<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Herzogstand, Jochberg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Activities<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Bathing, sailing, surfing, diving<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Region<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Upper Bavaria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Practical info<\/h2>\n<div style=\"background:#f3f1ec;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 20px;\">\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Getting there:<\/strong> By car via Kochel; bus from Kochel am See.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Best time:<\/strong> Bathing June to September; hiking May to October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Cost:<\/strong> Lake free; Herzogstand railway and parking payable (please verify).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Safety:<\/strong> Mountain lake, cool water; mind the wind when surfing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:12px 0 4px;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0;\">\n<li>Climb the Herzogstand for the classic view of the lake<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Background &amp; History<\/h2>\n<p>Embedded between wooded mountains south of Munich lies the Walchensee, one of the deepest and largest mountain lakes in Germany. It owes its intense blue and its clear, cool water quality to its altitude and to the meltwater that the glaciers of the last Ice Age left behind when they gouged out the basin. The painter Lovis Corinth was so captivated by this play of colours that in his final years he came again and again to the shore and captured the lake in a famous series of paintings.<\/p>\n<p>The Walchensee made history, however, above all through technology. In the 1920s, between it and the Kochelsee, lying around 200 metres lower, one of the largest high-pressure storage power stations of its time was built, which uses the difference in altitude of the two lakes to generate electricity and is regarded as a pioneering achievement of Bavarian electrification. Thus the lake unites two faces: the quiet natural idyll revered by Romantics and painters, and the early industrial monument that still supplies electricity today. In strong f\u00f6hn winds the lake turns into a popular area for sailors and surfers, for the surrounding mountains steer the wind to reliable strength. Anyone standing on the shore looks out over a landscape in which art, nature and technology are as inseparably interwoven as at hardly any other lake in the Bavarian Alps.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#221c1a;color:#fff;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 22px;margin-top:28px;\"><strong style=\"font-size:1.08em;\">Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0 12px;color:#d8d2cc;font-size:14px;\">To make your trip run smoothly , our guides and gear tips for this destination:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;\"><a href=\"\/en\/mit-hund-in-den-alpen\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">With your dog in the Alps \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/hunde-ausruestung\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Dog gear \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/wanderschuhe\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Hiking boots \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/schichtenprinzip-bekleidung\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Layering guide for clothing \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/packliste-tages-bergwanderung\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Day-tour packing list \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der Walchensee z\u00e4hlt mit seinem tiefblau bis t\u00fcrkis schimmernden Wasser zu den sch\u00f6nsten und gr\u00f6\u00dften Bergseen Deutschlands. Umrahmt von Herzogstand und Jochberg ist er ein beliebtes Ziel zum Baden, Segeln, Windsurfen und Tauchen. Vom Herzogstand reicht der Blick \u00fcber den See bis zum nahen Kochelsee. Highlights Tiefblaues bis t\u00fcrkises Wasser Hausberge Herzogstand und Jochberg Beliebt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1209,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","citadela-item-category":[39,75,36,30],"citadela-item-location":[54],"class_list":["post-1172","citadela-item","type-citadela-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","citadela-item-category-ausflugsziele-sehenswuerdigkeiten","citadela-item-category-hundefreundlich","citadela-item-category-seen-baden","citadela-item-category-wandern-bergtouren","citadela-item-location-bayerische-alpen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/citadela-item"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1172\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-category?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-location?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}