View of Forggensee from Panoramastadel

We took a great break at the Panoramastadl

One of the many viewpoints around Lake Forggensee.
Ideally one of the many on your tour around the lake.

Forggensee, with its length of twelve kilometers and three kilometers width, is the largest lake in the Allgäu and the fifth largest in Bavaria. He is not a natural lake. The Forggensee was first developed as a reservoir in the fifties, serves as a reservoir for the Lech downstream hydroelectric power plants and is important for the flood control of the Lech during snowmelt. The special feature of the Forggensee: It only has the full damming height from June to mid-October. In winter you can see in the empty lake the remains of the Roman military road Via Claudia Augusta, which led through the middle.