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Baden: the
Woogsee near Rastatt
Hesse: the
Großer Woog in Darmstadt
Rhineland-Palatinate: the
Eiswoog in the
Palatine Forest
Saarland: the Möhlwoog near Jägersburg
A woog (from wâc , a
Middle High German
hydronym )
[1]
[2] is the local name for a body of still water in parts of southwest
Germany . A woog may be of natural origin or manmade.
Distribution of the name
The name is used for waterbodies in the German states of
Rhineland-Palatinate (being especially common in the
Palatine Forest ), the
Saarland , in
South Hesse (commonly in the
Odenwald ) and in the state of
Baden-Württemberg (
Nordbaden ); even the names of roads or settlements are derived from such bodies of water. Examples are:
Baden-Württemberg
Hesse
Rhineland-Palatinate
Biedenbacher Woog , reservoir on the
Leinbach
Büttelwoog, campsite near
Dahn
Dämmelswoog, reservoir near
Fischbach
Eiswoog , reservoir on the
Eisbach
Finsterthaler Woog, reservoir on the
Leinbach
Franzosenwoog , former reservoir on the
Hochspeyerbach
Gelterswoog , reservoir of tributaries of the Aschbach
Hammerwoog , reservoir in
Kaiserslautern
Kammerwoog , former woog on the
Nahe in Idar-Oberstein, today a section of the river
Katzenwoog, reservoir on the
Erlenbach near Kaiserslautern
Kolbenwoog , reservoir on a tributary of the Aschbach
Mörstadter Woog, reservoir on the northern perimeter of
Mörstadt
[3]
Mühlwoog , reservoir on the Leinbach, just before its confluence with the
Hochspeyerbach
Niederhausener Woog (also Niederhausener reservoir ), reservoir der Nahe between Norheim and
Niederhausen
Pfälzerwoog (also Pfalzwoog), reservoir on a right tributary of the
Saarbach
Salzwoog , district of Lemberg, named after an old reservoir on the
Salzbach
Scheidelberger Woog , nature reserve between
Miesau and
Hütschenhausen
Schweinswoog, reservoir on the
Eußerbach
Seewoog, reservoir on the Leinbach near
Waldleiningen
Sixmeisterwoog reservoir on the Aggenbach near
Otterberg
Spießwoog, reservoir near Fischbach
Stüdenwoog reservoir on the
Eppenbrunner Bach
Vogelwoog , reservoir and surrounding nature reserve on the edge of Kaiserslautern
Woogfelsen rocks, a
heritage site on the Biedenbacher Woog in
Frankenstein (Pfalz)
Saarland
References