Chiemsee

Land: Bavaria

Boat services

Regular services (including services to islands) from Prien, Gstadt, Seebruck and Chieming.

Situation and characteristics

With an area of 82sq.km/32sq.mi, the Chiemsee is the largest of the Bavarian lakes, measuring between 5km/3mi and 15km/9mi across and up to 73m/240ft in depth. It occupies the central part of a basin carved out by an Ice Age glacier, and once extended southward as far as Grassau, over an area which has since been silted up by deposits from the Tiroler Ache. In summer the lake is dotted with sailboats.