Woog
A woog is the local name for a body of still water in parts of southwest Germany. A woog may be of natural origin or manmade.
Distribution of the name
The name is used for waterbodies in the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Saarland, in South Hesse and in the state of Baden-Württemberg ; even the names of roads or settlements are derived from such bodies of water. Examples are:Baden-Württemberg
- Woogsee, natural lake near Rastatt in the basin of the Kinzig-Murg-Rinne
Hesse
Rhineland-Palatinate
- Biedenbacher Woog, reservoir on the Leinbach
- Büttelwoog, campsite near Dahn
- Dämmelswoog, reservoir near Fischbach
- Eiswoog, reservoir on the Eisbach
- Finsterthaler Woog, reservoir on the Leinbach
- Franzosenwoog, former reservoir on the Hochspeyerbach
- Gelterswoog, reservoir of tributaries of the Aschbach
- Hammerwoog, reservoir in Kaiserslautern
- Kammerwoog, former woog on the Nahe in Idar-Oberstein, today a section of the river
- Katzenwoog, reservoir on the Erlenbach near Kaiserslautern
- Kolbenwoog, reservoir on a tributary of the Aschbach
- Mörstadter Woog, reservoir on the northern perimeter of Mörstadt
- Mühlwoog, reservoir on the Leinbach, just before its confluence with the Hochspeyerbach
- Niederhausener Woog, reservoir der Nahe between Norheim and Niederhausen
- Pfälzerwoog, reservoir on a right tributary of the Saarbach
- Salzwoog, district of Lemberg, named after an old reservoir on the Salzbach
- Scheidelberger Woog, nature reserve between Miesau and Hütschenhausen
- Schweinswoog, reservoir on the Eußerbach
- Seewoog, reservoir on the Leinbach near Waldleiningen
- Sixmeisterwoog reservoir on the Aggenbach near Otterberg
- Spießwoog, reservoir near Fischbach
- Stüdenwoog reservoir on the Eppenbrunner Bach
- Vogelwoog, reservoir and surrounding nature reserve on the edge of Kaiserslautern
- Woogfelsen rocks, a heritage site on the Biedenbacher Woog in Frankenstein (Pfalz)
Saarland
Alter Woog, road name in the old town of St. WendelAm Altwoog, road name in the Neunkirchen district of FurpachMerwoog, road name in Kirrberg derived from an old reservoir on the Lambsbach- Möhlwoog, reservoir on the Erbach near Homburg-Jägersburg
- Woogbachtal, valley with ponds near Saarbrücken-Ensheim AirportZum Altwoog, road name in Fürth im Ostertal