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List of lakes of Rhineland-Palatinate

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The Laacher Lake in winter

This list of the lakes of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany is divided into the individual regions of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, which are organised from west to east and north to south.

The rivers and streams of Rhineland-Palatinate may be found in their own list.

Eifel

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Bitburger Reservoir
Schalkenmehrener Maar

In the Eifel mountains, the lakes are mostly maars, crater lakes and reservoirs. The maars and crater lakes were formed more than ten thousand years ago by small, local eruptions of volcanic gases.

Westerwald

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Reservoir and barrier of the Krombach Dam

In marsh regions of the Westerwald large fish ponds were laid out for centuries which today resemble natural lakes. There are also several reservoirs along the course of the larger rivers.

Hunsrück

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Keller Reservoir

In the narrow valleys of the Hunsrück reservoirs were created by building dams in order to ensure the water supply, even outside of the mountains e.g. for the city of Trier.

Landstuhl Marsh

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The boggy depression of the Landstuhl Marsh (Landstuhler Bruch), long since drained, was given a reservoir in order to increase the leisure value of the region. A second lake was added from an old gravel pit.

  • Ohmbachsee (reservoir on the Ohmbach)
  • Silbersee (gravel pit between Kindsbach and Landstuhl, created around 1960 to extract sand for the construction of the motorway)

Palatinate Forest

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Clausensee, a woog on the Schwarzbach
Isenachweiher, a woog on the Isenach

In the Palatinate Forest there are only a few natural lakes, none of which are larger than ponds in size. Since the Middle Ages, however, numerous reservoirs have been created, usually known as ‘’woogs’’. They acted as water storage for mills, as fish ponds and as so-called ‘’ klause’’s, ponds which were used to gather logs during the 19th and 20th centuries ready for rafting down the river.

Rhine Plain

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The Blaue Adria near Altrip
The Silbersee at Roxheim (behind the Old Rhine)

In the northwestern part of the Upper Rhine Plain, which belongs to Rhineland-Palatinate, there are no natural lakes. However, as a result of the extraction of sand and gravel in the old branches of the Rhine, flooded gravel pits were formed. In addition, small streams were impounded to create bathing lakes, supplementing the normal swimming pools.

  • Almensee (gravel pit near Bad Dürkheim)
  • Blaue Adria (Old Rhine gravel pit near Altrip)
  • Eicher See (gravel pit near Eich with an intact link to the Rhine)
  • Jägerweiher (Old Rhine gravel pit near Altrip)
  • Kiefweiher (Old Rhine gravel pit near Altrip)
  • Kistnerweiher (Old Rhine gravel pit near Altrip)
  • Kühweiher (formed by widening the Schwabenbach near Gönnheim)
  • Lambsheimer Weiher (gravel pit near Lambsheim)
  • Neuhofener Altrhein (Old Rhine gravel pit near Neuhofen)
  • Niederwiesenweiher (gravel pit near Böhl-Iggelheim)
  • Pfarrwiesensee (gravel pit near Gimbsheim)
  • Silbersee Altrip (Old Rhine gravel pit near Altrip)
  • Silbersee Roxheim (Old Rhine gravel pit near Bobenheim-Roxheim)
  • Schlicht (gravel pit near Neuhofen)
  • Schwanenweiher (Old Rhine gravel pit near Altrip)
  • Wolfgangsee (gravel pit near Neuhofen)
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