frozen lake alpsee, hohenschwangau, bavaria

what a great idea to visit the bavarian #1 tourist destination (together with the BMW museum in munich), the castles hohenschwangau + neuschwanstein on this sunny february weekend. the lake alpsee was still frozen, so we could walk on the ice and see the castles and surrounding mountains from a completely different perspective :-)

best of all wives walking on the frozen lake alpsee 😍 

will the ice hold her?

frozen lake alpsee ⛄

two of us

museum of bavarian kings

paparazzi ... what a beautiful ice ;o)

my talented acrobat 😘

the view from the other side

 

castle hohenschwangau

 
 
driving home ...

more pictures here

our visit with friends in september here
more bavarian lakes here
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lake alpsee, bavaria

we have many, many times been at the neuschwanstein and hohenschwangau castles, especially when we have had guests from slovakia or poland. actually, there is always something new to discover for us. besides the castles, the pöllatschlucht canyon, the city of füssen, hiking in the nearby mountains, there is an another activity we have enjoyed this time and can warmly recommend to you: swimming and paddling in the picturesque lake alpsee :-)

lake alpsee (großer alpsee)

hohenschwangau castle 

 
(cinderella) neuschwanstein castle with the lake forggensee behind it

 lake alpsee + castle hohenschwangau + lake schwansee as seen from castle neuschwanstein

 pöllatschlucht as seen from bridge marienbrücke

good-bye, beautiful castles + lakes

more pictures here.

more bavarian lakes here.

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bavarian lakes + sightseeing in bavaria

lake starnberger see at possenhofen

 

folks, i'm writing today just to let you know NOT to visit the lake germeringer see, if you don't have to ... we have much much nicer + more clean lakes in the neighborhood. 

lake germeringer see

swimming 🏊+ bathing 🛀 + sunbathing 🌞+ soccer 🌐

me, the soccer amateur. well, better than just to watch the european

 or world championship on TV, isn't it?

the unknown small guy was a better player than me 😀

forest kindergarden ~ waldkindergarten

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winter time walk around the frozen lake germeringer see, february 7th, 2026 ... it is so small, we've walked twice😉

ice vs. water aka winter time ⛄vs. summer time 🌞

well, if you want to go by bike / roller blades and be fast at any lake, so just do ... but remember, i have warned ya, didn't i? well, you want to see few pictures made by new pocket camera before you decide whether to visit germering or not? i'm not sure i understood the camera setting yet, i have just got it few days ago as a birthday gift, you know? but remember, there are nicer lakes and better photograhers out there ... of course, if you like algae, duck shit, barbecue smell and the like, so you are right in munich's mattress city / satellite germering and its lake 😃

what about this lakes + sites:

lake constance (bodensee) is the biggest, deepest and also the lake with the most water in germany (what a nice silhouette of city of lindau (bavaria), isn't it?) 

• eibsee + zugspitze (winter pictures from the top of germany)
• lake forggensee + bannwaldsee + illasbergsee
  
• frozen lake alpsee
  
• maisinger see (both my favorite lake + beer garden)
• quarry pond (baggersee) böhmer weiher
• quarry pond olchinger see
  
• the langwieder triplets: langwieder see + lusssee + birkensee

fkk (nude beach) at lake birkensee

• ammersee (old pictures) + a nice 1 day trip: andechs monastery + ammersee
• lake windachsee (+ lake ammersee)
• kochelsee
• marsh lake kirchsee
  
• lake fohnsee
• sylvenstein (=water reservoir for munich)
  
• lake tegernsee
• lake schliersee
• lake spitzingsee
• lake wörthsee
• at the seehaus ~ munich's small lake in the english gardens? watch out, here is the bathing forbidden :-(
• bodensee (DE, AT, CH) + the city of lindau
• chiemsee + seeon + bad bayersoien (similar to maisinger see because of its moor nature and swallow warm water)
• swamp lake in bad bayersoien
• castle schloss nymphenburg
• mittenwald, karwendel massif + 3 mountain lakes (schmalensee, lautersee, ferchensee)
• once more karwendel: lake barmsee + lake grubsee (unfortunately not grubersee ;-)
• lake alpsee, schwansee, forggensee & the hohenschsschwangau + neuschwanstein castles
• hohenschwangau + neuschwanstein in winter
• schongau
• skiing in lenggries (brauneck area)
• donauwörth
• pappenheim - ich kenne meine pappenheimer 😄
• jurassic park (solnhofen, altmühltal)
• weißenburg
• landsberg am lech
• badersee & hell valley canyon (höllental) = ice cold ⛄
• riegsee + froschhauser see = hot, but not really nice
• murnau + lake staffelsee 
  
• osterseen ~ 5 to 7 beautiful lakes (ostersee, fohnsee, sengsee, ...) between iffeldorf and lake starnberger see. enjoy the same lakes in winter time, too ~ osterseen

frozen lake fohnsee + iffeldorf + bavarian alps

• holzheimer baggerseen - quarry ponds close to nuclear plant :-)
• hintersee + taubensee (ramsau)
• wildensee - for me probably the nicest one
• königssee ~ a very special lake for me and probably the deepest in bavaria
• lake höglwörther see 
• lake neuhauser (schifferer) see
• lake rachelsee + lake waldsee (julbach)
• ++ tirol greets bavaria++ gardasee (lake garda / northern italy) ~ probably the most favorite short holiday destination for munich folks in summer time
• ++ tirol greets bavaria++ fernsteinsee ~ tyrol, austria
• ++ tirol greets bavaria++ achensee (austria)

lake wildensee

lake königssee

kloster höglwörth monastery at lake höglwörther see

• even more bavaria pictures? here we go ~ sightseeing in bavaria

i do not often share commercial or advertising pics / videos, but i somehow liked what our current bavarian prime minister horst seehofer posted on his wall at facebook, enjoy 2 minutes in bavaria:

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