Woog

Baden: the Woogsee near Rastatt
Hesse: the Großer Woog 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 (Nordbaden); even the names of roads or settlements are derived from such bodies of water. Examples are:

Baden-Württemberg

Hesse

Rhineland-Palatinate

Saarland

References

  1. Pfälzisches Wörterbuch (in German), Woog – ‚größeres stehendes (meist künstlich aufgestautes) Gewässer, Teich, Weiher‘, Band 6, col.  1456
  2. Deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Wag – ‚bewegtes wasser, teich, stauwasser‘, 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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