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Wilhelmstein is an artificial island with an area of in lake
Steinhuder Meer Lake Steinhude, german: Steinhuder Meer, , is a lake in Lower Saxony, Germany located northwest of Hanover. Named after the nearby village of Steinhude, it has an area of about , making it the largest lake of northwestern Germany. At the same t ...
, located in the
Hanover Region Hanover Region (german: Region Hannover) is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Heidekreis, Celle, Gifhorn, Peine, Hildesheim, Hamelin-Pyrmont, Schaumburg and Nienburg. T ...
, Northern Germany. The island was created in the 18th century as a fortification by Count William of
Schaumburg-Lippe Schaumburg-Lippe, also Lippe-Schaumburg, was created as a county in 1647, became a principality in 1807, a free state in 1918, and was until 1946 a small state in Germany, located in the present day state of Lower Saxony, with its capital at Bück ...
, ruler of this small German state. Since then the island hosts the Wilhelmstein fortress (german: Festung Wilhelmstein). Today the island, close to Hagenburg, is a popular destination for tourists. It can be reached by so-called 'emigrants boats' from
Steinhude Steinhude is a village in the borough of Wunstorf in Hanover Region in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is a tourist resort on the southern shore of Lake Steinhude. Once a small, quiet fishing village, today Steinhude is well known as a recre ...
and Mardorf.


See also

* In 1772 the island was the base of the first German submarine, the Steinhude Pike.


External links


Official web site
{{authority control Islands of Lower Saxony Artificial islands of Germany Lake islands of Germany Steinhuder Meer Wunstorf