Seeweiher

Seeweiher (Mengerskirchen)
View over the Seeweiher
Seeweiher (Mengerskirchen)
Location	Hesse
Coordinates	50°32′53″N 8°08′58″E / 50.548017°N 8.149538°E / 50.548017; 8.149538Coordinates: 50°32′53″N 8°08′58″E / 50.548017°N 8.149538°E / 50.548017; 8.149538
Max. length	0.939 kilometres (0.583 mi)
Surface area	0.13 kilometres (0.081 mi)

The Seeweiher is a reservoir north of the village of in the municipality of Mengerskirchen (county of Limburg-Weilburg) in the Westerwald in the German state of Hesse. It impounds the , a tributary of the which, in turn, flows into the River Lahn. It has a surface area of 13 hectares.

The Seeweiher was impounded in 1452 and is thus one of the oldest reservoirs in Hesse.

Leisure facilities[]

There used to be a campsite on the shores of the bathing lake and, since 1978, there has been a weekend village with 66 houses. Once a year the Westerwald Water Working Group holds a water work assessment for Newfoundland and Landseer dogs on land owned by the DLRG by the Seeweiher.^[1]

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External links[]

• Hessian State Officwe for the Environment and Geology: Seeweiher Mengerskirchen. In: Badeseen in Hessen, retrieved 13 May 2009
• Information on the Seeweiher
• Information on the Westerwald Water Working Group