The quietest Bavarian Forest lake

The quietest Bavarian Forest lake

This is Lake Rachel. The quietest Bayerwaldsee and it is only accessible on footpaths. The lake is 5.7 hectares. The water color is dark brown and 13.5 m deep. It is a nature reserve and is part of the Bavarian National Park.

That was my tour. Don't be alarmed by the kilometers. Since it is a national park, you were only allowed to take a bus up drive to a certain place. After that you had to walk. It was about a 7 km walk to the lake.

This is the so-called Igelbus. You pay 5 euros. Every hour one runs until 6 p.m. the last one.

That was the beginning of hiking. Pretty autumnal right? The sun was shining that day at 16 degrees 🙂. It was great weather for that. I like the one with the leaves on the ground. Especially my little dog, he's constantly wriggling around.

Here you can see the place to stop (upper picture) at the Racheldiensthütte.
On the picture below you can still see the old hut.
The old hut is over 100 years old. Crazy.
You can eat well and drink half a beer.

Next to it is a small pond. I totally like the picture. Real autumn. I love hiking in autumn😃.

Oh you see my shadow, unintentionally. You can see that it was muddy. So always have 2 pairs of socks with you.

So I took a break. What this looks like is remarkable. Why? Because it's a national park. Determined by nature.

Isn't that nice? The cool thing about such small water sources is the noise. That totally calms me down. It gives goosebumps to my body, so it calms me down.

This is what it often looks like in the national park. How that develops. The reason for the large number of dead trees was the damming of the lake. As a result, the trees on the eastern bank were in the flood area. After they died, they fell into the lake. There are still many trees at the bottom of the lake.

Here's what he looks like from a different spot. Up there on the left you can see MOUNTAIN RACHEL. The Rachel is 1452 m high. The second largest mountain in the Bavarian Forest. I took a break for an hour up there. Enjoyed the silence. Unfortunately it got colder and colder because the sun didn't shine where I imagined. It was a beautiful hike that I would recommend to anyone who likes silence.


The legends about the lake
Ein Rachen des Todes: Der Name Rachelsee führt auf die Hel oder Rachel zurück, wie des Teufels Großmutter heißt. Es ist ein Rachen des Todes, in dessen Tiefe die Verdammten hausen.
Sühne:
Man erzählt auch von einer alten Burgfrau, bei deren Tod, wie sie im Leben böse und unverträglich war, ein heftiger Sturmwind sich erhob und ein Schwarm von Raben auf den Sarg sich senkte, die ganze Zeit bis es zur Beerdigung kam. Ihr Geist soll einer der letzten gewesen sein, der in den Rachelsee fahren mußte, wo sie in rothem Rock und Mieder, weiß Gott wie lange, zur Sühne ihrer Bosheit umgehen muß.

A Maw of Death: The name Rachelsee leads back to Hel or Rachel, the name of the devil's grandmother. It is a jaws of death, in the depths of which the damned dwell.
Atonement:
There is also a story about an old lady of the castle, at whose death, as she was evil and intolerant in life, a violent gale arose and a swarm of ravens descended on the coffin, all the time until the burial came. Her ghost is said to have been one of the last who had to go to Lake Rachel, where she had to go around in a red skirt and bodice for God knows how long to atone for her wickedness.

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The pictures were taken from my cell phone.
I did the translation with Google translate.