Schliersee is a natural lake in Upper Bavaria in the

Bavarian Alps The Bavarian Alps (german: Bayerische Alpen) is a collective name for several mountain ranges of the Northern Limestone Alps within the German state of Bavaria. Geography The term in its wider sense refers to that part of the Eastern Alps that ...

. It is located next to the small town of Schliersee in the Miesbach district. The lake has a surface of at an elevation of

AMSL Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''. The comb ...

, expanding by maximum. The average depth is The maximum depth is . The only island is Wörth island, located almost in the middle of the lake. The lake is named for the monastery Kloster Schliersee ("Sliersee"), established in 779 at Kirchbichl nearby Westenhofen.

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* Lakes of Bavaria Miesbach (district) LSchliersee {{bavaria-geo-stub

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