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THE ECHO AT LAKE<br />
KÖNIGSSEE<br />
by boot through the National<br />
Park<br />
The mighty rocks of the <strong>Berchtesgaden</strong>er alps fall<br />
nearly vertically to the shore of lake Königssee<br />
whose deepest point is 192 meters. Who wants to<br />
discover the unique nature around the most<br />
popular mountain lake of Bavaria, has to take the<br />
boat - and will listen to the echo.<br />
Millions of echos in more than 100 years of electronic<br />
river navigation<br />
Because it’s a tradition and belongs to the river navigation through the lake Königssee like the<br />
silent electronic motors the ships are equipped with. Thanks to prince regent Luitpold who was<br />
afraid that the red deer in his favorite hunting grounds would run away. But he had no objection to<br />
the loud gunshots that send the echo in the 1930s seven times from wall to wall over lake<br />
Königssee. In the meantime, the gunshots were replaced with a Flügelhorn whose sounds are<br />
discarded one time at the opposite rock wall and sound different every time, depending on the<br />
player and the weather.<br />
Around half an hour lasts the journey over the lake to the peninsula St.<br />
Bartholomä, behind the great east wall of mount Watzmann.<br />
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