Woog Explained

A woog (from wâc, a Middle High German hydronym) 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 (being especially common in the Palatine Forest), the Saarland, in South Hesse (commonly in the Odenwald) and in the state of Baden-Württemberg (Nordbaden); 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

• Großer Woog, reservoir on the Darmbach

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^[1]
• Mühlwoog, reservoir on the Leinbach, just before its confluence with the Hochspeyerbach
• Niederhausener Woog (also Niederhausener reservoir), reservoir der Nahe between Norheim and Niederhausen
• Pfälzerwoog (also Pfalzwoog), 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. Wendel
• Am Altwoog, road name in the Neunkirchen district of Furpach
• Merwoog, road name in Kirrberg derived from an old reservoir on the Lambsbach
• Möhlwoog, reservoir on the Erbach near Homburg-Jägersburg
• Woogbachtal (also Ensheimer Gelösch), valley with ponds near Saarbrücken-Ensheim Airport
• Zum Altwoog, road name in Fürth im Ostertal

References

1. Web site: . Idylle am Woog near Musik and Wein . 2008-07-07 . 2009-09-08 .