Obersee Lake in Berchtesgaden National Park

Berchtesgaden National Park goes over one half of the territory Berchtesgadener Land, you’ve unlimited options for hiking (e.g.along lake Obersee), cycling, and nordic walking offered by a network of well-marked trails of numerous difficulty.

It really is impressing to see exactly how people in the Berchtesgaden region balance with nature and preserve their particular old tradition and culture. Why is that area of Berchtesgaden National Park so attractive to vacationers is that you simply experience the value of tradition all over the place.

The Obersee (“Upper Lake”) offers an region of 473 km² in size and stretches around sixty three kilometres between Bregenz and Bodman-Ludwigshafen. It’s max width is fourteen kilometres.

Areas of the Upper Lake are the Lake Überlingen, the Bregenz Bay and the Constance Hopper. Lake Überlingen is oftentimes regarded as an independent lake, in which particular case the name “Obersee” only refers to the area between Bregenz and Constance.

The lake is bordered by the Swiss cantons of Thurgau and St. Gallen, by the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and the German states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.