Woog

Baden: the near Rastatt

Hesse: the 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 (); even the names of roads or settlements are derived from such bodies of water. Examples are:

Baden-Württemberg[]

• , natural lake near Rastatt in the basin of the

Hesse[]

• , reservoir on the Darmbach

Rhineland-Palatinate[]

• , reservoir on the
• Büttelwoog, campsite near Dahn
• Dämmelswoog, reservoir near Fischbach
• Eiswoog, reservoir on the Eisbach
• Finsterthaler Woog, reservoir on the
• Franzosenwoog, former reservoir on the Hochspeyerbach
• Gelterswoog, reservoir of tributaries of the Aschbach
• , reservoir in Kaiserslautern
• , former woog on the Nahe in Idar-Oberstein, today a section of the river
• Katzenwoog, reservoir on the Erlenbach near Kaiserslautern
• , reservoir on a tributary of the Aschbach
• Mörstadter Woog, reservoir on the northern perimeter of Mörstadt^[3]
• , 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
• , district of Lemberg, named after an old reservoir on the Salzbach
• , 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
• reservoir on the
• , reservoir and surrounding nature reserve on the edge of Kaiserslautern
• Woogfelsen rocks, a heritage site on the Biedenbacher Woog in Frankenstein (Pfalz)

Saarland[]

• Alter Woog, road name in the old town of St. Wendel
• Am Altwoog, road name in the Neunkirchen district of Furpach
• Merwoog, road name in Kirrberg derived from an old reservoir on the Lambsbach
• Möhlwoog, reservoir on the Erbach near Homburg-Jägersburg
• Woogbachtal (also Ensheimer Gelösch), valley with ponds near Saarbrücken-Ensheim Airport
• Zum Altwoog, road name in

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