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            Typical wooden boathouses on the southwestern bank of Lake Ammer, Diessen am Ammersee, Bavaria, Germany

Some background information:

The Ammersee (in English: "Lake Ammer") is a tongue basin lake in Upper Bavaria, Germany. It is situated about 40 km (25 miles) southwest of Munich between the little towns of Herrsching and Diessen am Ammersee. With a surface area of approximately 47 square kilometres (18 sqare miles), it is the sixth largest lake in Germany. The lake is at an elevation of 533 metres (1,749 feet), and has a maximum depth of 81 metres (266 feet). Like other Bavarian lakes, Ammersee developed as a result of the ice age glaciers melting. The Ammersee is fed by the River Ammer, which flows as the River Amper out of the lake. Like neighbouring Lake Starnberg – deeper and bigger in surface area, but similar in shape - it is a popular location for watersports.

The Ammersee belongs to the so-called Fünfseenland (in English: "Country of the Five Lakes"), which derives its name from the five major lakes Lake Starnberg, Ammersee, Pilsensee, Woerthsee and Wesslinger See, but also includes some minor lakes like the Osterseen (in English: "Easter Lakes") and the Maisinger See. Both the lake and its outflow, the River Amper, are part of the ancient Celtic amber trading route leading to the Brenner Pass, a renowned mountain pass that forms the border between Italy and Austria.

The lake's water generally has been of very good quality since a circular sewerage system was introduced in the 1960s collecting all wastewater from around the lake and transporting it to a treatment plant below the lake's outlet at the municipality of Eching. Nowadays the lake abounds with fish again and is home of the vulnerable species of deepwater char Salvelinus evasus and salmoniforms Coregonus. 

Deepwater char are highly sensitive to changes in the quality of the water and some species such as Salvelinus neocomensis and Salvelinus profundus were driven recently to extinction in other European lakes. Furthermore, the Ammersee is also home of the endemic species Ammersee-Kaulbarsch (scientific name: Gymnocephalus ambriaelacus, in English: "Lake Ammer Ruff").

Passenger services have operated on the lake since 1879. Today they are operated by the Bayerische Seenschifffahrt company, using a mixture of historic paddle steamers and motor ships. Finally, it is worth mentioning that the famous Benedictine monastery of Andechs Abbey is situated on a hill east of the Ammersee between the two lakes of Ammersee and Starnberg. Hence, the abbey is visible from several locations on the western bank of the Ammersee.

Diessen am Ammersee is a municipality with more than 10,000 residents in the district of Landsberg in Upper Bavaria. Situated in the Bavarian Alpine Foreland the little town stretches from the shores of Ammersee lake to the forested morainic hills of the Saale and Wuerm glaciation.

In 1039, Diessen was first mentioned in a document, and from 1050 on, a local nobility was mentioned too, the family of the Counts of Diessen-Andechs. The counts had their castle on a hill in the south of the town. In the years between 1121 and 1127, they founded the Diessen Monastery. But around 1140, the family moved to Wolfratshausen and left the town to the monastery though they still acted as bailiffs. With the extinction of the Counts of Andechs in 1248, the Wittelsbach Dynasty took over the bailiwick of the monastery.

In the course of the war between Ludwig the Bavarian and Frederick the Fair, Diessen was burned in 1318 by the troops of Duke Leopold. After the war, Diessen itself was under control of ducal, later electoral judges, who also held jurisdiction over the whole Ammersee area and since 1599 also over the forested area west of the town.

In the Thirty Years' War the town was plundered by Protestant Swedish troops in 1632. Most of its inhabitants fled either to Erlaich Island in the lake or the extensive forests around the town. As a result Erlaich Island was renamed Swedish Island.

In 1703, in the course of the War of the Spanish Succession, Diessen was again looted, but this time by Austrian troops. As it was already tried and tested, the population fled again to the island. Just one year later, further raids by hussars occurred and in the years 1743 and 1744, Austrian troops captured the town once again.

In 1803, the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization. Parts of the monastery were demolished and most of its land was sold off. With the beginning of steam shipping on the lake and the railroad service from Augsburg to Weilheim towards the end of the 19th century, Diessen became a centre of attraction for artists and also a centre of the arts and crafts movement. From the 1920s onwards the town expanded with new settlement and building areas evolving in all directions.

Taken in: Germany / Bavaria / Landkreis Landsberg am Lech / Dießen am Ammersee (show map)

Taken on: June 27, 2020

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