The , or Bavarian Lakes Shipping Company, is a company that operates shipping services on several lakes in the

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state of

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

. Services operate on the

Königssee The Königssee is a natural lake in the extreme southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the Austrian border. Most of the lake is within the Berchtesgaden National Park. Description Situated within the Berch ...

, the Starnberger See, the Ammersee and the

Tegernsee Tegernsee is a town in the Miesbach district of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the shore of Lake Tegernsee, which is 747 m (2,451 ft) above sea level. A spa town, it is surrounded by an alpine landscape of Upper Bavaria, and has an ...

. The company was created in 1997, to operate services on the four lakes that were previously operated directly by the Bavarian state government. These services date back to 1851 (on the Starnberger See), 1879 (on the Ammersee), 1894 (on the Tegernsee) and 1909 (on the Königssee). The company is owned by the state of Bavaria, and has some 160 employees. The company operates 34 vessels of a variety of types. On the Ammersee it operates a fleet of

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s, including both propeller-driven and paddle-driven vessels. One of the latter, the ''Diessen'', dates back to 1908 and was originally steam powered. On the Starnberger See and Tegernsee conventional propeller-driven motor vessels are operated. On the environmentally sensitive Königssee only battery-electric launches are permitted, and a fleet of 18 such launches is operated.Quiet Cruising on Königssee
/ref> Similar passenger services on the Chiemsee, Bavaria's largest internal lake, are operated by the

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Chiemsee Schifffahrt company. The international Lake Constance White Fleet operates ferry and cruise services on Lake Constance, on which Bavaria has a shore.

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Official website of the Bayerische Seenschifffahrt GmbH
(in German and English) Companies based in Bavaria Shipping companies of Germany Transport in Bavaria Government-owned companies of Germany {{shipping-company-stub