St Bartholomä
Red domes.
Günter Seggebäing, Coesfeld — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jens Perschke — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Rosa-Maria Rinkl — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Carsten Steger — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Franz Reger — CC BY-SA 3.0
The Königssee is a natural lake in southeast Bavaria near the Austrian border, mostly within Berchtesgaden National Park, about 9 km south of Berchtesgaden and 29 km south of Salzburg in a straight line. It is Germany's third-deepest lake, formed by glaciers in the last ice age. It stretches about 7.7 km from north to south and is about 1.7 km wide at its widest. It is fjord-like, ringed by steep mountain slopes up to 2,700 metres, including the Watzmann massif to the west. Its name means «King's Lake». Clear emerald water stretches between towering rock walls with forest at their feet, and on a small peninsula halfway along stands the church of St Bartholomä with its red onion domes. At the southern end lies a second small lake, the Obersee, ringed by meadows and wooden huts. Quiet electric boats carry visitors along the lake, and halfway the boat stops while a boatman plays a trumpet so the echo rings back off the rock walls. From Salet stop you can walk to the Obersee, and from the shore to the Malerwinkel viewpoint.
Red domes.
On the boat.
A small lake.
Schönau am Königssee, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
By electric boat.
Yes, from Salzburg.