Seven tree-covered islands make it the most island-rich lake in the foothills of the Alps. It is located “in the middle of a pre-Alpine moor landscape west of Murnau. The Toteissee, whose basin was formed by the Loisach Glacier, was formed during the Würm Ice Age.

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The calm side of the lake, no cars, few people

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The Staffelsee is a 4.6 km long and 3.7 km wide lake in the Ammer-Loisach hill country in the southernmost district of Upper Bavaria, the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It is almost eight square kilometers in size with a depth of up to almost 40 meters.

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Elevation 670 m

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Sunday 29 March

3°C

-2°C

79 %

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Max wind speed: 17.0 km/h

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Location: Seehausen am Staffelsee, Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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