Lake information:

Information

Bayer. Schlösserverwaltung/
Außenstelle Chiemsee
Bernauer Straße 5
83209 Prien
Telefon (0 80 51) 9 66 58-0
Fax (0 80 51) 9 66 58-38
E-Mail seeverwaltung.chiemsee
@bsv.bayern.de

The Chiemsee is ca. 90 km southeast of Munich and can be reached via the A8 from Munich to Salzburg (exit Bernau).

 

There are paths round the lake and the Herreninsel.

Sights: 
internal link Herrenchiemsee New Palace including the King Ludwig II Museum
internal link Museum in Herrenchiemsee Monastery including two art galleries

Information on the connecting boat services: 
Chiemsee-Schifffahrt Ludwig Feßler GmbH 
tel +49 - (0) 80 51 - 60 90
fax +49 - (0) 80 51 - 6 29 43
External link www.chiemsee-schifffahrt.de

Connecting boat service:

Landing stages: Prien, Gstadt

Franchised restaurants and hotels:

Café im Neuen Schloss
Tel. (0 80 51) 96 88 34

Schlosswirtschaft Herrenchiemsee
Tel. (0 80 51) 96 27 67-0
externer Link www.schlosswirtschaft-herrenchiemsee.de

Restaurant/Hotel
"Zur Linde"
Frauenchiemsee
Tel. (0 80 54) 3 16,
(0 80 54) 9 03 66

Nearest railway station:

Prien
External link www.bahn.de

Public transport with nearest stop:

Chiemseebahn (in summer) or  bus (in winter) to the landing stage "Prien/Stock"

 

The wheater today:

www.wetter.com

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Chiemsee

Picture: Chiemsee

The largest lake in Bavaria is the Chiemsee, which is otherwise known as the "Bavarian Sea". The name has a kernel of truth in it: not only does the lake, which has an area of 80 square kilometres, have tides like the sea, it also originated from the primeval Thetis Sea which once covered almost half of Europe.

Among its attractions are the island of Herrenchiemsee with its internal link palaces, the monastery on internal link Frauenchiemsee and internal link Julius Exter's House in Feldwies. The Chiemsee is under the protection of the international Ramsar Convention, which was founded to preserve ecologically important wetlands. Since 1954 the mudflats in the delta formed where the Tiroler Ache flows into the lake have been a protected retreat for many endangered species of waterfowl and wader.

internal link General information on the lakes
(Moorings for boats/diving permissions)

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