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.

## Contents

* 1 Distribution of the name
* 1.1 Baden-Württemberg
* 1.2 Hesse
* 1.3 Rhineland-Palatinate
* 1.4 Saarland
* 2 References

## 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

* Großer Woog, reservoir on the Darmbach

### 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 (in de), Woog, Band 6, col. 1456, http://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/PfWB?lemma=woog
2. ↑ Deutsches Wörterbuch (in de), Wag, Band 27, col. 331, http://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB?bookref=27,331,21
3. ↑ "Idylle am Woog near Musik and Wein". Wormser Zeitung. 2008-07-07. http://www.wormser-zeitung.de/region/vg-monsheim/moerstadt/4835558.htm.

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