The journey by electric passenger boat to the St. Bartholomä peninsula takes half an hour. Behind the peninsula stands the imposing Watzmann East Wall. In addition to the baroque pilgrimage church dedicated to St. Bartholomew, with its famous ruby-colored onion domes, the royal hunting lodge attracts visitors to stop by a typical Bavarian restaurant with a beer garden to linger or to the Fischer vom Königssee, where trout, char and whitefish are transformed into fine delicacies in the 400-year-old smokehouse.
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00:00With its 192 meters, the deepest lake in Bavaria casts a spell over everyone.
00:26Nestled in the valley between the Watzmann, Jenner and Hagen mountains, rare species of
00:31fish frolic in its emerald green water.
00:34It is a place for unforgettable moments and photo opportunities that you only get once
00:40in a lifetime.
00:41Enclosed by steep mountain slopes, about 5 kilometers south of Berchtesgaden, lies Germany's
00:47highest lake at 603 meters above sea level.
00:51You should escape the hustle and bustle of the lakeside tourist village of Schönau
00:56and take a boat trip to Sankt Bartholomä, where the world-famous chapel with its onion
01:00domes is located on the western shore.
01:03Sankt Bartholomä is the landmark of Lake Königsee and can only be reached by boat.
01:09The world-famous Pilgrimage Church, whose first buildings date back to the 12th century,
01:14is picturesquely situated on a peninsula in the west.
01:18Next to it is the former hunting lodge, which is now an idyllic inn.
01:25Shipping on the Königsee was already extremely progressive in 1909, and even then people
01:31were thinking about the environment.
01:33Since then, the Königsee has only been navigated by electrically powered motorboats, which
01:38glide tranquilly across the lake to this day.
01:48We walk along the lake shore, and then turn off onto a forest path.
02:49After a while, we reach the St. John and Paul Chapel.
03:05Below it rushes the ice creek, which is fed by the melt water of a glacier on the south
03:10side of the Wattsman Mountain.
03:26We continue by boat to the southern end of Lake Königsee.
03:40The Schreinbach Creek meets the Königsee with its impressive waterfall, and then we
03:45are already at the southernmost landing stage, Sally, from where we hike to the romantic
03:50Obersee.
03:56The fisherman's hut on the western shore of the Obersee greets us from afar.
04:04And after a while, we reach an enchanted looking spot in the forest by the Obersee.