Woog

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.

Baden: the Woogsee near Rastatt
Hesse: the Großer Woog in Darmstadt
Rhineland-Palatinate: the Eiswoog in the Palatine Forest
Saarland: the Möhlwoog near Jägersburg

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

Baden-Württemberg
  • Woogsee, natural lake near Rastatt in the basin of the Kinzig-Murg-Rinne

Hesse

Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Biedenbacher Woog, reservoir on the Leinbach
  • Büttelwoog, campsite near Dahn
  • Dämmelswoog, reservoir near Fischbach
  • Eiswoog, reservoir on the Eisbach
  • Finsterthaler Woog, reservoir on the Leinbach
  • Franzosenwoog, former reservoir on the Hochspeyerbach
  • Gelterswoog, reservoir of tributaries of the Aschbach
  • Hammerwoog, reservoir in Kaiserslautern
  • Kammerwoog, former woog on the Nahe in Idar-Oberstein, today a section of the river
  • Katzenwoog, reservoir on the Erlenbach near Kaiserslautern
  • Kolbenwoog, reservoir on a tributary of the Aschbach
  • Mörstadter Woog, reservoir on the northern perimeter of Mörstadt[3]
  • Mühlwoog, 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
  • Salzwoog, district of Lemberg, named after an old reservoir on the Salzbach
  • Scheidelberger Woog, 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
  • Stüdenwoog reservoir on the Eppenbrunner Bach
  • Vogelwoog, 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 Fürth im Ostertal

References
  1. Pfälzisches Wörterbuch, Woog (in German), Band 6, col. 1456
  2. Deutsches Wörterbuch, Wag (in German), Band 27, col. 331
  3. "Idylle am Woog near Musik and Wein". Wormser Zeitung. 2008-07-07. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
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