Hintersee
Good to know
- Best time to go
- May to October
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
A small glacial lake at the entrance to the Zauberwald — the 'enchanted forest' — near the village of Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden, Hintersee sits beneath dramatic limestone cliffs on its southern shore. The lake's mirror-calm waters at dawn reflect the rock walls and surrounding spruce forest, a scene that attracted generations of German Romantic painters. The bouldered forest path around the lake traverses a landscape of moss-covered granite rocks tumbled by an ancient rockfall.
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