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14-550: The Reichsschule Feldafing was located in a 1912 era country house on Lake Starnberg , a part of which Thomas Mann had also owned before it was converted into a private school for the Nazi Storm Trooper leadership. In 1938, the school got a new building, designed by Alois Degano , and was renamed Reichsschule der NSDAP Feldafing (RSF). The school was sponsored by the leadership of the Nazi Party . In 1942, an addition to

28-609: A zungenbecken or glacial hollow, was created by ice age glaciers from the Alps , and extends 21 km (13 mi) from north to south and has a width of 3–5 km (2-3.5 miles) from east to west. It has a single small island, the Roseninsel , and a single outlet, the Würm river (because of this river the lake was called the Würmsee until 1962). Its major inflow comes from a small river called

42-483: Is Germany 's second-largest body of fresh water, having great depth, and fifth-largest lake by area. It and its surroundings lie in three different Bavarian districts, or Landkreise . The lake is property of the state and accordingly managed by the Bavarian Administration of State-Owned Palaces, Gardens and Lakes . Located in southern Bavaria 25 kilometres (16 mi) southwest of Munich , Lake Starnberg

56-578: Is a popular recreation area for the city and, since 1976, one of the wetlands of international importance protected by the Ramsar Convention . The small town of Berg is famous as the site where King Ludwig II of Bavaria was found dead in the lake in 1886. Because of its associations with the Wittelsbach royal family, the lake is also known as Fürstensee (Prince's Lake). It is also mentioned in T. S. Eliot 's poem The Waste Land . The lake, lying in

70-661: The Bayerische Seenschifffahrt company, using modern diesel-engined ships. The earliest surviving mention of the lake, as Uuirmseo , is in an 818 document referring to Holzhausen, now part of Münsing . This name became Wirmsee , already recorded during the reign of the Holy Roman Emperor Louis the Bavarian (1314–1347). This name is derived from the Wirm, now spelt Würm , the only river which flows out of

84-533: The Dachau concentration camp was constructed on adjacent property. This addition was dissolved on April 23, 1945 and, after the end of World War II , the former Reichsschule students were prevented from pursuing further education. The US Military converted the former Reichsschule into a Displaced Persons Camp to house Jewish Displaced Persons . After the dissolution of the Feldafing displaced persons camp in 1951,

98-844: The German state of Bavaria . Services operate on the Königssee , the Starnberger See , the Ammersee and the Tegernsee . The Bayerische Seenschifffahrt company was created in 1997, to operate services on the four lakes that were previously operated directly by the Bavarian state government. These services date back to 1851 (on the Starnberger See), 1879 (on the Ammersee), 1894 (on the Tegernsee) and 1909 (on

112-587: The German Military took over operations of the building. In 1999 the building was renovated and converted into a literature museum. 47°56′09″N 11°17′35″E  /  47.9358°N 11.2931°E  / 47.9358; 11.2931 This article about a Bavarian building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lake Starnberg Lake Starnberg , or Starnberger See [ˈʃtaʁnbɛʁɡɐ ˌzeː] ) — called Lake Würm or Würmsee [ˈvʏʁmˌzeː] until 1962 —

126-663: The Königssee). The company is owned by the state of Bavaria, and has some 160 employees. The company operates 34 vessels of a variety of types. On the Ammersee it operates a fleet of motor ships , including both propeller-driven and paddle-driven vessels. One of the latter, the Diessen , dates back to 1908 and was originally steam powered . On the Starnberger See and Tegernsee conventional propeller-driven motor vessels are operated. On

140-551: The Steinbach or Ostersee-Ach, which flows through a chain of small lakes to the south, the Osterseen . The lake's water is of excellent quality due to the introduction in the 1960s of a circular sewerage system which collects wastewater from the settlements around the lake and transports it to a treatment plant below the lake's outlet at Starnberg . Bronze fish-hooks and a dugout dating to the 9th or 8th century BCE have been discovered at

154-459: The environmentally sensitive Königssee only battery-electric launches are permitted, and a fleet of 18 such launches is operated. Similar passenger services on the Chiemsee , Bavaria's largest internal lake, are operated by the private sector Chiemsee Schifffahrt company. The international Lake Constance White Fleet operates ferry and cruise services on Lake Constance , on which Bavaria has

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168-405: The lake, and there are still some professional fishers , most of them continuing a family tradition. Hikers and cyclists can circumnavigate the lake using a path approximately 49 kilometres (30 mi) long. Access to the lake shore is not possible everywhere, since it is mostly private property. Passenger ferries and excursion ships have operated on the lake since 1851. Today they are operated by

182-510: The lake, at Starnberg; in the 19th century, the spellings were changed to Würm and Würmsee. In the late 19th century, a railway connection between Munich and Starnberg made the lake an accessible destination for trips from the city. Trains departed from a wing of the Munich Central Station which was known as the 'Starnberg branch station' ( Starnberger Flügelbahnhof ) and the lake came increasingly to be known as Lake Starnberg; its name

196-427: Was finally officially changed in 1962. Clockwise from the north, the following settlements about the lake: Off the western shore, south of Possenhofen, is the small Roseninsel (Rose Island), the site of a royal villa of Ludwig II . Bayerische Seenschifffahrt The Bayerische Seenschifffahrt GmbH , or Bavarian Lakes Shipping Company , is a company that operates shipping services on several lakes in

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