watzmannhaus 1930 m + BGL

what a nice birthday gift have i got from my eldest daughter: an overnight stay at one of the 25 mountain cottages run by german alpine association (DAV). we have chosen to stay at the watzmannhaus (1930 m over the sea level) in the berchtesgaden area in the most south-east part of germany. why? well, that's the area where i lived some time as refugee 30 years ago (the refugee camp shanties are still there). a beautiful area which i like so much and an area i wanted to present to my daughter as nice as possible.

berchtesgaden as seen from our room in hotel krone

well we have stayed 3 days in BGL area, walked around and swum in the ice cold lake hintersee, visited  the picturesque village ramsau, the nice city of berchtesgaden, walked to the waterfall at lake königssee and swum in the so deep and cold lake too. we went up to the watzmannhaus, stayed there for a night with approximately 50 other hikers & mountaineers (in our room there were 36 beds, my dears), climbed at the watzmann massif almost to the top of the peak hocheck (2651m) so that we could look down to the  small watzmann peak (Kleiner Watzmann ~ Watzmannfrau ~ 2307 m) and many more ==> thanks, dear daughter :-)

 lake hintersee

ramsau

königssee

 my old refugee camp at königssee

 lake königssee

 waterfall at lake königssee

 berchtesgaden

monkeys act like people? people act like monkeys? both? :-)

 wimbach canyon (wimbachklamm)

 at the trail to the watzmannhaus

 watzmannhaus 1930 m, we have FINALLY ARRIVED :o)

the watzmann peaks, our goal for today morning. breakfast at 6 p.m., the tour started at 7 a.m. ;o)

 let's climb up, up, up ....

the birds + we look down to the small watzman ~ kleiner watzmann, 2307 m

watzmann - hocheck 2651m

view from the kührointalm, 1420m

 a cold bath in lake hintersee before we left the beautiful BGL area this time 

more pictures here.

my last visit tio berchtesgaden / königssee here.

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ramsau + zauberwald + hintersee + watzmann + taubensee

what a nice weekend with the best of all wives in the bavarian alps (a week ago) ~ ramsau + zauberwald + hintersee + watzmann + taubensee close to berchtesgaden / königsee ~ enjoy few pictures  :-)

ramsau, the famous postcard view

view from our hotel (pension bianca), ramsau

two of us

blaueis + hochkalter, 2607m

hinterseer ache (ramsauer ache) / zauberwald

best of all wives

lake hintersee

adios watzmann (2713m)

lake taubensee with snowy watzman left and blaueis + hochkalter in the middle

weißbachschlucht /weißbachklamm

hotel + restaurant mauthäusl over the weissbachschlucht

more pictures here

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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