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Waterbodies A body of water or waterbody (often spelled water body) is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another planet. The term most often refers to oceans, seas, and lakes, but it includes smaller pools of water such as p ...

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Sch ...

Lakes, ponds and reservoirs

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* Achtersee

B

* Barkauer See * Behlendorfer See *

Behler See The Behler See is a lake in the Holstein Switzerland region of North Germany. It lies between Timmdorf (municipality of Malente) to the east and the town of Plön to the west. To the east it transitions into the Langensee, to the west into the H� ...

* Belauer See * Benzer Seen *

Bistensee Bistensee is a former municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. On 1 March 2008, it was merged with Ahlefeld Ahlefeld-Bistensee is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schles ...

* Borgdorfer See * Blankensee (Lübeck) * Bornhöveder See * Bornhöveder Seenkette * Bothkamper See * Brahmsee *

Brautsee Brautsee ( da, Brudesøen) is a lake in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and ...

* Bültsee

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Dassower See Despite its name, the Dassower See (), sometimes called Lake Dassow or Dassow Bay in English, is not a lake, but a side bay, locally known as a ''wiek'', of the Trave Fjord, northeast of Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein) on the Baltic Sea. Geography ...

Dieksee The Dieksee is a lake in the Holstein Switzerland region of North Germany. Geography It has an area of , a maximum length of about 3.4 kilometres and a maximum width of 1.6 kilometres. The lake is up to 38 metres deep, its surface elevati ...

* Dobersdorfer See * Drüsensee

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Einfelder See Einfelder See is a lake in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. At an elevation of 26.79 m, its surface area is 1.78 km². It is located in the northern suburb of Neumünster and in the Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde. The lake is located on a water div ...

Großer Eutiner See The Großer Eutiner See is a lake in Holstein Switzerland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It lies northeast of the town of Eutin. It has an area of , is up to 17 metres deep and lies at a height of about . It northern side borders directly on ...

Kleiner Eutiner See Kleiner ( he, קליינר) is a German and Jewish surname, meaning "smaller": * Alfred Kleiner, Swiss physicist * Bruce Kleiner, American mathematician * Krista Arrieta Kleiner, Filipino-American TV actress/singer and host * Dick Kleiner, Holly ...

F

* Flemhuder See * Fresensee * Fuhlensee

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* Garrensee * Glinder Mühlenteich * Goossee * Grabauer See * Großer Binnensee * Großensee * Gudower See

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Haddebyer Noor Haddebyer Noor ( da, Haddeby Nor) is a lake – formerly a small arm of the Schlei inlet of the Baltic Sea – in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is ...

* Hegesee * Hemmelsdorfer See *

Höftsee The Höftsee is a lake in the Holstein Switzerland in North Germany. It lies on the River Schwentine east of the town of Plön between the Behler See and the Großer Plöner See. It has an area of about , is up to 16 metres deep and lies about . T ...

I

* Itzstedter See

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Kellersee The Kellersee () is a lake in the Holstein Switzerland region of North Germany. It lies east of the village of Malente on the River Schwentine, has an area of , is up to 27 metres deep and lies at a height of . Southeast of the lake is the vil ...

* Kieler Bootshafen * Kirchsee * Kleiner Kiel * Klenzauer See * Kohlborn * Krebssee (Mölln) *

Kronsee The Kronsee is a lake in the Holstein Switzerland region of North Germany. It lies on the River Schwentine between the Kleiner Plöner See, upstream, and the Fuhlensee, downstream, south of Wahlstorf Manor House Wahlstorf is a village and a f ...

* Krebssee * Krummsee (Kreis Ostholstein) *

Kudensee Kudensee is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Ru ...

* Kührener Teich

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* Langensee * Langsee *

Lanker See The Lanker See is a lake in the region of Holstein Switzerland in North Germany. It lies south of the town of Preetz in the district of Plön, and is crossed from south to north by the River Schwentine. The Lanker See has wealth of small bays. Alm ...

* Lanzer See * Lüttauer See * Lottsee

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Mechower See Mechower See is a lake in the Nordwestmecklenburg district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. At an elevation of 31.5 m, its surface area is 1.64 km². See also * List of lakes in Germany The largest lake on German territory is Lake Con ...

* Middelburger See * Middelburg Lakes * Molfsee (lake) * Möllner Seenplatte * Mözener See * Mühlenteich (Lübeck) * Mühlenteich (Reinbek)

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* Neukirchener See * Neversdorfer See

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* Överdiek

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Passader See Passader See is a lake in Eastern Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous ...

* Peper See * Pipersee *

Großer Plöner See The Großer Plöner See ("Great Plön Lake") or Lake Plön ("Plöner See", ) is the largest lake (30 km²) in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is located near the town of Plön. Its main tributary, as well as its main outflow, is the River S ...

Kleiner Plöner See The Kleine Plöner See is a lake in Holstein Switzerland in North Germany. Geography It lies west of the town of the Plön, has an area of , is up to about 31 metres deep and has a surface elevation of around . The lake is owned both by the s ...

* Plußsee * Pohlsee * Pohnsdorfer Stauung * Großer Pönitzer See * Kleiner Pönitzer See *

Postsee Postsee is a lake in Kreis Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous ...

* Pinnsee

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* Rammsee * Rantzauer See *

Ratzeburger See is a lake in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of th ...

* Redingsdorfer See *

Rosensee The Rosensee is a lake in the region of Holstein Switzerland in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. History The lake began as a reservoir, built in 1908 as part of the construction of the Schwentine Hydropower Plants (''Schwentine Wasserk ...

* Vorderer Russee

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* Salemer See * Sarnekower See *

Schaalsee Schaalsee is a lake in Germany. It forms part of the border between Schleswig-Holstein (district Herzogtum Lauenburg) and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (districts Ludwigslust-Parchim and Nordwestmecklenburg). The town of Zarrentin is located on its south ...

* Scharsee * Schieren See * Schmalensee * Schulensee * Schulsee * Schwanensee * Schwartauer See * Schwarzsee (Mölln) * Schwonausee *

Großer Segeberger See Großer Segeberger See is a lake in Kreis Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, an ...

* Seedorfer See * Seekamper See *

Selenter See The Selenter See () is the second-largest lake in the North German state of Schleswig-Holstein, after the Großer Plöner See. It lies at an elevation of and has an area of 22.4 km². The ''Selenter See'', which lies near the village of Sele ...

Sibbersdorfer See The Sibbersdorfer See is a lake in the district of Ostholstein within the region known as Holstein Switzerland in the North German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It lies between Sibbersdorf and Fissau, north of the Großer Eutiner See, near the ...

* Stadtsee (Mölln) * Stolper See * Süseler See

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Taschensee Taschensee is a lake in Scharbeutz, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populo ...

* Tonteich *

Trammer See Trammer See is a lake in Kreis Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most popu ...

* Trenter See * Treßsee * Tröndelsee

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Ukleisee Ukleisee is a lake in Kreis Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. At an elevation of 26.5 m, its surface area is 0.32 km². This lake is (as numerous other lakes in this area) a kettle hole, remaining from Weichselian glaciation The Weich ...

V

* Vierer See

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Wardersee Wardersee is a lake in Kreis Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most po ...

bei Bad Segeberg * Wardersee (Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde) * Wellsee *

Westensee Westensee () is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The location of Westensee is south of the municipality of Bredenbek or Felde, but north of Emkendorf or Langwedel, and west of Schierensee. ...

* Wielener See * Windebyer Noor *

Wittensee was an ''Amt'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It was named after the lake Wittensee, which is situated in the ''Amt''. It was located between Eckernförde and Rendsburg. Th ...

Rivers and streams

See

list of rivers of Schleswig-Holstein A list of rivers of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany: A * Aalbek, flowing through the Hemmelsdorfer See and into the Baltic Sea * Aalbek, tributary of the Stör *Alster *Alte Schwentine * Arlau B * Barnitz * Basshornlaufgraben * Bekau * Beste * ...

Canals

* Alster-Beste Canal * Breitenburg Canal * Düker Canal *

Eider Canal The Eider Canal (also called the Schleswig-Holstein Canal) was an artificial waterway in southern Denmark (later northern Germany) which connected the North Sea with the Baltic Sea by way of the rivers Eider and Levensau. Constructed between 1 ...

* Elbe-Lübeck Canal * Gieselau Canal *

Kiel Canal The Kiel Canal (german: Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, literally "North- oEast alticSea canal", formerly known as the ) is a long freshwater canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The canal was finished in 1895, but later widened, and links the N ...

* Schaalsee Canal *

Stecknitz Canal The Stecknitz Canal (german: Stecknitzfahrt) was an artificial waterway in northern Germany which connected Lauenburg and Lübeck on the Old Salt Route by linking the tiny rivers Stecknitz (a tributary of the Trave) and Delvenau (a tributary of ...

Coastal waters The coast, also known as the coastline or seashore, is defined as the area where land meets the ocean, or as a line that forms the boundary between the land and the coastline. The Earth has around of coastline. Coasts are important zones in n ...

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...

Bay of Kiel The Bay of Kiel or Kiel Bay (, ; ) is a bay in the southwestern Baltic Sea, off the shores of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany and the islands of Denmark. It is connected with the Bay of Mecklenburg in the east, the Little Belt in the northwest, ...

Flensburg Fjord Flensburg Firth or Flensborg Fjord (german: Flensburger Förde; da, Flensborg Fjord) is the westernmost inlet of the Baltic Sea. It forms part of the border between Germany to the south and Denmark to the north, on the eastern side of Schleswig ...

*** Bay of Geltingen **

Eckernförde Bay Eckernförde Bay (german: Eckernförder Bucht; da, Egernførde Fjord or Egernfjord) is a firth and a branch of the Bay of Kiel between the Danish Wahld peninsula in the south and the Schwansen peninsula in the north in the Baltic Sea off the lan ...

Schlei The Schlei (; da, Slien, also ''Slesvig Fjord''e.g. in: Adolph Frederik Bergsøe: ''Den danske stats statistik'', Kjøbenhavn 1844, p. 156) (more often referred to in English as the Sly Firth) is a narrow inlet of the Baltic Sea in Schleswig-H ...

Kiel Fjord Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland pe ...

** Fehmarnsund *

Fehmarn Belt Fehmarn Belt (), (, former spelling ''Femer Bælt''; ) is a strait connecting the Bay of Kiel and the Bay of Mecklenburg in the western part of the Baltic Sea between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland. Ferries oper ...

Bay of Mecklenburg The Bay of Mecklenburg ( or ''Mecklenburgische Bucht''; ), also known as the Mecklenburg Bay or Mecklenburg Bight, is a long narrow basin making up the southwestern finger-like arm of the Baltic Sea, between the shores of Germany to the south a ...

Bay of Lübeck The Bay of Lübeck (, ) is a basin in the southwestern Baltic Sea, off the shores of German states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein. It forms the southwestern part of the Bay of Mecklenburg. The main port is Travemünde, a bor ...

** Bay of Neustadt

North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian S ...

* Helgoland Bight ** Lister Tief ** Hörnum Tief ** Vortrapptief ** Heverstrom *** Mittelhever *** Norderhever *** Süderhever ** Norder Aue ** Süder Aue ** Rütergat ** Schmaltief ** Purrenstrom ** Wesselburener Loch ** Bay of Meldorf *** Piep